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Researchers test a peer-led intervention for people struggling with serious mental illnesses

People who struggle with serious mental illnesses are more likely to die early - about 10 to 30 years early - than those without mental illness from any cause.

15 Jul 2021

Senate Democrats’ plan boosts spending on Medicare, ACA subsidies, long-term care

The budget package Democrats are assembling in Congress would likely provide the biggest jolt to the American health care system since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, according to sources familiar with work on the plan.

15 Jul 2021

Influx of medical school students could overwhelm Montana resources, program leaders warn

Opening two new medical schools in Montana would stretch and possibly overwhelm the state's physicians who provide the clinical training that students need to become doctors, according to leaders of a University of Washington medical school program that relies on those teaching physicians.

15 Jul 2021

How ERs fail patients with addiction: One patient’s tragic death

Jameson Rybak tried to quit using opioids nearly a dozen times within five years. Each time, he'd wait out the vomiting, sweating and chills from withdrawal in his bedroom.

15 Jul 2021

Can Biden’s plan to remove urban highways improve the health of American cities?

Mandela Parkway, a four-lane boulevard enhanced by a median with trees and a curving footpath, stretches along a 24-block section of West Oakland. It's the fruit of a grassroots neighborhood campaign to block reconstruction of an elevated freeway leveled by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and reimagine the thoroughfare to replace it.

15 Jul 2021

New online educational program on shared decision making in lung cancer screening

The American College of Chest Physicians and Thomas Jefferson University are launching a free online educational program titled "Shared Decision Making in Lung Cancer Screening" to assist healthcare workers with identifying eligible patients for lung cancer screening and helping patients make a well-informed decision about whether to be screened.

14 Jul 2021

Adult children's educational attainment impacts their parents' mental and physical health

Write down the benefits of obtaining a college degree and, more than likely, all the items on the completed list will relate to graduates: higher salaries, autonomous jobs and better access to health care, for instance.

14 Jul 2021

Virtual schooling exposes the lack of digital resources among Black families

A new study from the University of Missouri found the unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness.

14 Jul 2021

Black teenage girls want inclusive body types to be featured in anti-obesity advertising, study shows

A recent qualitative research study conducted by the University of North Florida, in partnership with Indianan University-Purdue Indianapolis and UF Health Jacksonville, shows that black teenage girls want inclusive body types to be featured in advertising to combat teen obesity rates.

14 Jul 2021

Lott donates $600,000 to the Zero Childhood Cancer Program

Today we'd like to say a big thank you to the Lott for their generous donation of $600,000 to the Zero Childhood Cancer Program.

14 Jul 2021

Electroconvulsive therapy may result in longer hospital stays and increased health care costs

Electroconvulsive therapy, which may be effective at lowering long-term risks of suicide and death among patients with certain mood disorders, may result in longer hospital stays and increased health care costs, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

14 Jul 2021

Yale School of Public Health and Tevogen Bio partner to expand school's regulatory sciences program

The Yale School of Public Health is partnering with Tevogen Bio, a clinical stage biotechnology company, on a major expansion of the school's regulatory sciences program.

14 Jul 2021

Community health workers play an integral role in identifying patients' social needs

Addressing patients' health-related social needs, like housing and food security, is integral to patient care.

14 Jul 2021

New study outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends

A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in populations.

14 Jul 2021

Could corticosteroids increase mortality in COVID-19 patients without high oxygen supplementation?

A new paper focuses on the role of corticosteroids, in particular, as these were widely used among patients on intensive respiratory support (IRS).

14 Jul 2021

Nanopore technology allows point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing

As the SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread worldwide and cause disease and death on a devastating scale, genomic sequencing has become a primary method of keeping track of emerging variants and new outbreaks. A new medRxiv* preprint explores the role of nanopore sequencing in this effort.

14 Jul 2021

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Researchers test a peer-led intervention for people struggling with serious mental illnesses

Senate Democrats’ plan boosts spending on Medicare, ACA subsidies, long-term care

Influx of medical school students could overwhelm Montana resources, program leaders warn

How ERs fail patients with addiction: One patient’s tragic death

Can Biden’s plan to remove urban highways improve the health of American cities?

New online educational program on shared decision making in lung cancer screening

Adult children's educational attainment impacts their parents' mental and physical health

Virtual schooling exposes the lack of digital resources among Black families

Black teenage girls want inclusive body types to be featured in anti-obesity advertising, study shows

Lott donates $600,000 to the Zero Childhood Cancer Program

Electroconvulsive therapy may result in longer hospital stays and increased health care costs

Yale School of Public Health and Tevogen Bio partner to expand school's regulatory sciences program

Community health workers play an integral role in identifying patients' social needs

New study outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends

Could corticosteroids increase mortality in COVID-19 patients without high oxygen supplementation?

Nanopore technology allows point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing

Vaccine hesitancy among young adults may stall efforts to achieve herd immunity

Study highlights burden of methamphetamine-associated heart failure hospitalizations in California

COVID-19 vaccine booster strategy against Delta variant evidence of growing inequity, says WHO

Fungi and bacteria in the gut may equally impact human health and disease severity

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