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New CDC opioid guidelines: Too little, too late for chronic pain patients?

Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain.

15 Mar 2023

Lifestyle coaching improves health perceptions, behaviors, and weight during COVID-19

Researchers examine the perceptive, behavioral, and anthropometric changes in Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) participants.

14 Mar 2023

State-level insurance policy prohibiting discrimination can increase access to gender-affirming surgery

Implementation of a state-level insurance policy that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression can increase access to gender-affirming surgical care, according to a new study by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine.

14 Mar 2023

New guideline focuses on the timing of hip and knee arthroplasty

The American College of Rheumatology and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons released a summary of its new guideline titled "the Optimal Timing of Elective Hip or Knee Arthroplasty for Patients with Symptomatic Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis or Osteonecrosis Who Have Failed Nonoperative Therapy."

14 Mar 2023

Researchers investigate potential links between sleep disturbances and stroke

The dynamics between stroke and sleep – measured in both quantity and quality - are complex. Research has broadly shown that either sleep deprivation or sleeping for longer than 9 hours a day can increase the risk of having a stroke.

14 Mar 2023

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation may limit access to accredited medical imaging facilities

Regions of the U.S. with an extreme level of socioeconomic disadvantage were less likely to have access to accredited medical imaging facilities and centers of excellence, according to a research letter published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.

14 Mar 2023

New report focuses on promoting safer sleep for babies

Change is needed to the way safer sleep information is communicated, if risks to babies from unsafe sleeping practices are to be reduced, according to a new report from Oxford, UCL, Bristol and Newcastle Universities.

14 Mar 2023

WHO recommends use of pyrethroid-chlorfenapyr insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria

The World Health Organization has updated its policy regarding the type of insecticide used on bed nets to prevent malaria.

14 Mar 2023

Facility-level disparities linked to racial health inequality among prostate cancer patients

Racial minorities in the United States are less likely to receive treatment for prostate cancer and, overall, have worse survival outcomes compared to individuals who are white.

14 Mar 2023

ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023 puts spotlight on heart disease prevention strategies

Get ready for practice-changing science at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology.

14 Mar 2023

Jersey Shore University Medical Center redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital

Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) has been redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital.

14 Mar 2023

The development of the pediatric oral resistome and its role in dental caries

Researchers performed a genomic investigation of oral resistome development, i.e., of genes that confer antimicrobial resistance.

14 Mar 2023

Black lung resurgence drives push to protect coal miners against silica dust

Like most coal miners' loved ones, Liz Williams has endured many days and nights of worry.

14 Mar 2023

What is the influence of prenatal second-hand smoke exposure on infant self-regulation?

A new study aimed to analyze an important gap concerning the impact of prenatal SHS exposure on infant self-regulation.

14 Mar 2023

Veterans’ health administration expands deployment of Mikroscan Systems

Mikroscan Technologies, innovators and manufacturers of live robotic microscopy and whole-slide imaging (WSI) systems, announces that it has expanded its relationship with the Veterans’ Administration through the multi-system sale of its SL5-20 Real-Time Telemicroscopy and Digital Pathology systems.

From Mikroscan Technologies 14 Mar 2023

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New CDC opioid guidelines: Too little, too late for chronic pain patients?

Lifestyle coaching improves health perceptions, behaviors, and weight during COVID-19

State-level insurance policy prohibiting discrimination can increase access to gender-affirming surgery

New guideline focuses on the timing of hip and knee arthroplasty

Researchers investigate potential links between sleep disturbances and stroke

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation may limit access to accredited medical imaging facilities

New report focuses on promoting safer sleep for babies

WHO recommends use of pyrethroid-chlorfenapyr insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria

Facility-level disparities linked to racial health inequality among prostate cancer patients

ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023 puts spotlight on heart disease prevention strategies

Jersey Shore University Medical Center redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital

The development of the pediatric oral resistome and its role in dental caries

Black lung resurgence drives push to protect coal miners against silica dust

What is the influence of prenatal second-hand smoke exposure on infant self-regulation?

Veterans’ health administration expands deployment of Mikroscan Systems

The burden of Clostridioides difficile infections in the United States

Hurricane exposure associated with increased mortality among older adults living with dementia

Remote hypertension program helped patients to manage blood pressure during the pandemic

Pitt and ēlizur partner to create a device for at-home rehabilitation after rotator cuff repair surgery

New initiative aims to improve employee well-being and advance health equity in the workplace

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