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Biden’s FTC has blocked 4 hospital mergers and is poised to thwart more consolidation attempts

Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission's successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration's new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.

18 Jul 2022

Low rate of COVID-19 vaccination among high-risk pregnant women

A new study examines the feelings of pregnant women towards the COVID-19 vaccine.

17 Jul 2022

Best available chemotherapy for HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma would save lives and be cost-effective in Africa

Although antiretroviral therapy has markedly improved survival in people with AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma (a type of cancer caused by a virus), the condition is still a life-threatening problem in low- and middle-income countries.

15 Jul 2022

Research tests the effectiveness of a callback program on preventing ER return visits

Can a simple phone call reduce the likelihood that a patient will have to return to the emergency room in the days just after being discharged?

15 Jul 2022

Frequent, regular rapid antigen testing plus isolation could cut COVID-19 risk among groups of people

Among oil-rig workers, shipping crews, and other groups of people who work closely together, COVID-19 can spread like wildfire. Yet trying to prevent spread with long quarantines can be just as disruptive.

15 Jul 2022

Alcohol consumption does not provide any health benefits, presents many risks for young people

Young people face higher health risks from alcohol consumption than older adults, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet.

15 Jul 2022

Quest Diagnostics starts testing for monkeypox with a real-time PCR test

Starting today, Quest Diagnostics will begin testing for monkeypox. The company has developed a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that uses patient swab specimens to qualitatively detect non-variola orthpoxviruses and monkeypox virus DNA.

15 Jul 2022

Study assesses the acceptance of Medicaid insurance among patients diagnosed with cancers

Although there has been a significant increase in the number of U.S. residents insured through Medicaid since the expansion of the Patient Protection and Afforadble Care Act (ACA) in March 2010, the ability of Medicaid-insured patients to access cancer care services has not been well understood.

15 Jul 2022

Listen: Why medical debt touches every corner of America

KHN's Noam N. Levey talks with Sasha-Ann Simons of WBEZ about America’s sprawling medical debt crisis.

15 Jul 2022

Study: Prescribing rate of non-opioid pain medications increased after 2016 CDC guideline

After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a guideline for prescribing opioids to patients experiencing chronic pain in 2016, the prescribing rate of non-opioid pain medication increased each year above and beyond what would be expected based on the preexisting trends, a new study finds.

15 Jul 2022

Using AI to improve your dental care and keep you smiling

In this interview, we speak to Severin Stalder, CEO of Zaamigo, about their AI dental camera and how it is helping to improve people's dental hygiene.

15 Jul 2022

’Health is Wealth’ focus for global healthcare trade and export summit at Birmingham 2022

A major trade summit exploring opportunities for data driven healthcare to improve health worldwide will take place at UK House.

15 Jul 2022

Nurse midwives step up to provide prenatal care after two rural hospitals shutter birthing centers

Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn't complete the 2-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa's outreach clinic in her southeastern Iowa hometown.

15 Jul 2022

California’s public health tax is dead for the year

A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to fund public health programs and pandemic prevention is dead — at least for this year.

15 Jul 2022

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

Forget covid-19, monkeypox, and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even hospitalizations because of the failure of oral antibiotics.

15 Jul 2022

Peer comparison information decreases physicians' job satisfaction while increasing burnout

A commonly used behavioral intervention - informing primary care physicians about how their performance compares to that of their peers - has no statistically significant impact on preventive care performance.

15 Jul 2022

Workers report higher level of fatigue from the use of videoconferencing apps during the pandemic

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that the increased use of videoconferencing platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a higher level of fatigue, as reported by workers.

15 Jul 2022

Study finds the increasing popularity of plus size models in both marketing and on social media

With the changing societal body image in America, plus size models have gained in popularity and positively impacted a body inclusive model of beauty.

15 Jul 2022

Acknowledging AMR in regulatory frameworks for drug approvals could improve the availability of new antibiotics

The appropriate use of existing antibiotics and the development of new antibiotics targeting drug-resistant infections can slow the emergence, spread, and consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR); however, antibiotic research and development (R&D) has not responded to the urgent need for new antibiotics.

15 Jul 2022

New tool uses existing EHR data to identify avoidable hospital transfers of nursing home residents

The Avoidable Transfer Scale, an innovative tool that uses data commonly included in a nursing home resident's electronic health record to identify and characterize potentially avoidable hospitalizations, highlights issues that can be handled in the nursing home itself.

15 Jul 2022

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Biden’s FTC has blocked 4 hospital mergers and is poised to thwart more consolidation attempts

Low rate of COVID-19 vaccination among high-risk pregnant women

Best available chemotherapy for HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma would save lives and be cost-effective in Africa

Research tests the effectiveness of a callback program on preventing ER return visits

Frequent, regular rapid antigen testing plus isolation could cut COVID-19 risk among groups of people

Alcohol consumption does not provide any health benefits, presents many risks for young people

Quest Diagnostics starts testing for monkeypox with a real-time PCR test

Study assesses the acceptance of Medicaid insurance among patients diagnosed with cancers

Listen: Why medical debt touches every corner of America

Study: Prescribing rate of non-opioid pain medications increased after 2016 CDC guideline

Using AI to improve your dental care and keep you smiling

’Health is Wealth’ focus for global healthcare trade and export summit at Birmingham 2022

Nurse midwives step up to provide prenatal care after two rural hospitals shutter birthing centers

California’s public health tax is dead for the year

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

Peer comparison information decreases physicians' job satisfaction while increasing burnout

Workers report higher level of fatigue from the use of videoconferencing apps during the pandemic

Study finds the increasing popularity of plus size models in both marketing and on social media

Acknowledging AMR in regulatory frameworks for drug approvals could improve the availability of new antibiotics

New tool uses existing EHR data to identify avoidable hospital transfers of nursing home residents

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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