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Medicare Advantage plans send pals to seniors’ homes for companionship — and profits

Widowed and usually living alone, Gloria Bailey walks with a cane after two knee replacement surgeries and needs help with housekeeping.

15 Mar 2022

Implementation of the 2014 kidney allocation system led to increase in kidney transplantation referrals

A study of patients initiating dialysis during 2012-2016 at nine transplant centers in the Southeastern US found that dialysis facilities referred more incident patients and transplant centers evaluated more incident patients following implementation of the 2014 kidney allocation system (KAS) but fewer evaluated patients were placed onto the waitlist.

14 Mar 2022

Study finds discriminatory violations of policies and practices for women cardiologists

Childbearing women cardiologists can encounter adverse effects in their physical health, finances and career advancements due to discriminatory violations of maternity leave practices in the U.S., specifically the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

14 Mar 2022

UNC researchers offer solution to detect, issue warnings about tainted street drugs

With new grant funding, Nabarun Dasgupta '13 (Ph.D.), Gillings Innovation Fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will work with colleagues across Carolina to develop systems to detect and issue public warnings about dangerous adulterants in street drugs.

14 Mar 2022

Study: Almost half of over-35s not confident in recognizing cardiac risk during exercise

A new study assessing the knowledge and confidence in recognizing cardiac symptoms has found that almost half of over-35s were not confident in their ability to recognize symptoms of impending cardiac risk – such as a heart attack or sudden cardiac death – while participating in strenuous exercise.

14 Mar 2022

UC San Diego receives $38 million USAID grant to address gender equity and health issues

The U.S. Agency for International Development has funded a $38 million, five-year project led by the Center on Gender Equity and Health at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

14 Mar 2022

Study: LGBT+ physicists experience exclusionary behaviors that make them leave physics

LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity and inclusion issues.

14 Mar 2022

Exposure to room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation

Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed: Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published in PNAS.

14 Mar 2022

UK Government to remove all COVID-19 international travel restrictions

The government will remove the remaining restrictions on international travel for all passengers ahead of the Easter holidays, the Transport Secretary announced today (14 March 2022).

14 Mar 2022

COVID-19 incidence in K-12 schools in mask-required vs. mask-optional settings

Researchers evaluate the impact of wearing facemasks by students in schools and the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

14 Mar 2022

Modeling study assesses the effectiveness facemasks before and after COVID-19 vaccination

Scientists simulate different scenarios using facemasks through a computational Monte Carlo simulation model.

14 Mar 2022

Role of carboxypeptidase U in severe COVID-19

A new study measured both proCPU and CPU+CPUi over time to determine the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the CPU system.

14 Mar 2022

At-home test for influenza is as accurate as rapid diagnostic testing in clinical settings

Home-based, self-administered tests for influenza are comparable in accuracy to rapid diagnostic tests in clinical settings, according to a recently published, peer-reviewed study.

11 Mar 2022

Survey: About 16% of couples are discordant about COVID-19 vaccination

A small but significant portion of couples contain one partner who is vaccinated against COVID-19 and another partner who is not, a Washington State University survey has found.

11 Mar 2022

New update on using masks in the public transportation corridor

At CDC's recommendation, TSA will extend the security directive for mask use on public transportation and transportation hubs for one month, through April 18th.

11 Mar 2022

Canadian scientist discusses about how society could better prepare for future pandemics

Aled Edwards is of two minds about medicine's response to COVID-19. On one hand, he notes, we had life-saving vaccines and therapies less than a year after the discovery of SARS-CoV-2. On the other, more than six million, and possibly as many as 18 million people have died, and global access to advances that can prevent and treat severe disease remains highly inequitable.

11 Mar 2022

In silico screening and testing of FDA approved drugs inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein cleavage

Researchers screened 5,000 Food and Drug Association-approved drugs to identify repurposed drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein cleavage at both S1/S2 boundary and S2’.

11 Mar 2022

Study shows competitive fitness of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants linked to their distinctiveness relative to identified lineages

Researchers defined a novel polynucleotide-based Distinctiveness metric to capture the proteome-level differences of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and lineages against all previously identified ones.

11 Mar 2022

Study finds greater financial worries and lower rates of psychological distress among immigrants

Compared to US-born individuals, immigrants to the United States have increased financial worries – especially related to things like retirement and medical costs, reports a study in the March issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Practice.

11 Mar 2022

HMHI announces a $5 million gift to support the new Mental Health Crisis Care Center

Huntsman Mental Health Institute announced a generous $5 million gift from Kem and Carolyn Gardner to support the Mental Health Crisis Care Center. Expected to open in 2024 and located on 3300 South between 900 and 1000 West in South Salt Lake, the new center will be named the Kem and Carolyn Gardner Mental Health Crisis Care Center.

10 Mar 2022

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Medicare Advantage plans send pals to seniors’ homes for companionship — and profits

Implementation of the 2014 kidney allocation system led to increase in kidney transplantation referrals

Study finds discriminatory violations of policies and practices for women cardiologists

UNC researchers offer solution to detect, issue warnings about tainted street drugs

Study: Almost half of over-35s not confident in recognizing cardiac risk during exercise

UC San Diego receives $38 million USAID grant to address gender equity and health issues

Study: LGBT+ physicists experience exclusionary behaviors that make them leave physics

Exposure to room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation

UK Government to remove all COVID-19 international travel restrictions

COVID-19 incidence in K-12 schools in mask-required vs. mask-optional settings

Modeling study assesses the effectiveness facemasks before and after COVID-19 vaccination

Role of carboxypeptidase U in severe COVID-19

At-home test for influenza is as accurate as rapid diagnostic testing in clinical settings

Survey: About 16% of couples are discordant about COVID-19 vaccination

New update on using masks in the public transportation corridor

Canadian scientist discusses about how society could better prepare for future pandemics

In silico screening and testing of FDA approved drugs inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein cleavage

Study shows competitive fitness of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants linked to their distinctiveness relative to identified lineages

Study finds greater financial worries and lower rates of psychological distress among immigrants

HMHI announces a $5 million gift to support the new Mental Health Crisis Care Center

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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