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Watch: Navigating social media after mass shootings

A University of Pennsylvania professor shares advice on navigating the intersection of gun violence and social media as part of KHN's new "Spotlight" interview series.

28 Jul 2022

The US mental health hotline network is expanding, but rural areas still face care shortages

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's 988 phone number, which launched July 16, was designed as a universal mental health support tool for callers at any time anywhere.

28 Jul 2022

Nursing homes are suing the friends and family of residents to collect debts

Lucille Brooks was stunned when she picked up the phone before Christmas two years ago and learned a nursing home was suing her.

28 Jul 2022

Everything you need to know about Paxlovid — especially, should you take it?

When President Joe Biden tested positive for covid-19 on July 21, his physician recommended he take the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

28 Jul 2022

New research provides data-driven recommendations for safe diving

New research in biomechanics measures the impact of head-first, hand-first and feet-first diving and the likelihood of injury at different diving heights, providing data-driven recommendations for safe diving and a model for measuring the impact of different shapes as they plunge into water.

28 Jul 2022

Expansion of Cardeation Capital will bring pioneering health care products for heart disease and stroke patients

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally responsible for 17 million deaths every year and its toll is expected to rise to over 23 million deaths annually by 2030. CVD also represents a major economic burden with the annual economic cost of CVD estimated to range over $500 billion in the United States alone.

28 Jul 2022

Face shields fail to provide high level of protection against COVID-19, finds study

If you wore a face shield during the pandemic, it probably didn't give you a high level of protection against Covid, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

28 Jul 2022

Pandemic policy to shield homeless people lowers the use of acute medical care

In the first year of the pandemic, San Francisco and other communities in California offered private hotel rooms, three meals a day and on-site medical services to homeless people who were at risk of getting severe COVID-19.

27 Jul 2022

Icelandic study reveals how many children experience severe COVID symptoms

Researchers explore the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Icelandic children.

27 Jul 2022

Epigenetic age acceleration could be used as a biomarker to estimate functional and cognitive aging

A first-of-its-kind study of 1,813 older women suggests that the accelerated biological aging of the body - epigenetic age acceleration specifically - is associated with lower odds of living to be 90 years old and also being physically mobile and having intact mental function.

27 Jul 2022

Damaging effects of blue light exposure worsen with age

The damaging effects of daily, lifelong exposure to the blue light emanating from phones, computers and household fixtures worsen as a person ages, new research by Oregon State University suggests.

27 Jul 2022

Study shows how changing stroke care protocols could improve triage and patient's survival

Implementing severity-based field triage leads to faster treatment and less disability for stroke patients. The research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's 19th Annual Meeting, and now published online in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, shows that states that use field-based stroke severity triage as part of their Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) transport protocols give severe stroke patients more rapid access to specially trained neuroendovascular care teams and lifesaving thrombectomy.

27 Jul 2022

New guidelines for breast cancer screening and diagnosis helps people understand their personal risk

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published new NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis to help people understand their personal risk for breast cancer,

27 Jul 2022

Creating a Microrobot to One Day Tackle Cancer

In this interview, we speak to Birgül Akolpoglu about her latest research into microrobotics and how these biohybrid microrobots could one day be used to tackle cancer.

27 Jul 2022

To stem the spread of monkeypox, health departments tap into networks of those most at risk

On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern.

27 Jul 2022

The ambulance chased one patient into collections

In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn't have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come to the crash site and pick her up.

27 Jul 2022

Listen: Can California lower the price of insulin?

California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on KCRW's "Press Play With Madeleine Brand" and KJZZ, a public radio station in Phoenix, this month to discuss California's plan to reduce the cost of some prescription medications — starting with insulin — by diving into the generic drug market.

27 Jul 2022

Healthcare News

Watch: Navigating social media after mass shootings

The US mental health hotline network is expanding, but rural areas still face care shortages

Nursing homes are suing the friends and family of residents to collect debts

Everything you need to know about Paxlovid — especially, should you take it?

New research provides data-driven recommendations for safe diving

Expansion of Cardeation Capital will bring pioneering health care products for heart disease and stroke patients

Face shields fail to provide high level of protection against COVID-19, finds study

Pandemic policy to shield homeless people lowers the use of acute medical care

Icelandic study reveals how many children experience severe COVID symptoms

Epigenetic age acceleration could be used as a biomarker to estimate functional and cognitive aging

Damaging effects of blue light exposure worsen with age

Study shows how changing stroke care protocols could improve triage and patient's survival

New guidelines for breast cancer screening and diagnosis helps people understand their personal risk

Creating a Microrobot to One Day Tackle Cancer

To stem the spread of monkeypox, health departments tap into networks of those most at risk

The ambulance chased one patient into collections

Listen: Can California lower the price of insulin?

Health insurance price data: It’s out there, But it’s not for the faint of heart

Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated staffing challenges in children's social care, report finds

PCORI approves $258 million funding to support 26 new health care-related studies

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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