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Hospital prices just got a lot more transparent. What does this mean for you?

Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers.

5 Jan 2021

Many health plans now must cover full cost of expensive HIV prevention drugs

Ted Howard started taking Truvada a few years ago because he wanted to protect himself against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But the daily pill was so pricey he was seriously thinking about giving it up.

5 Jan 2021

Looking to the future will help safeguard mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns

Practicing gratitude and looking to the future will help safeguard our mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns, a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology reports.

5 Jan 2021

Middle-aged adults with comorbidities high-risk category for COVID-19-related mortality in Mexican study

Researchers from Mexico demonstrate how they calculated age-stratified COVID-19 case fatality rates, years of life lost (YLL), and relative risk for 9 comorbidities and 23 comorbidity combinations in a retrospective study.

5 Jan 2021

Researchers develop detailed map of protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and the host

By conducting a state-of-the-art interactome study between SARS-CoV-2 and host cells, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston identified 437 human proteins as the high-confidence interacting proteins – with substantial implications for understanding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pathology and potential treatments.

5 Jan 2021

Study describes physician experiences with online harassment

While many physicians benefit from social media by networking with potential collaborators or interfacing with patients, a new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago found many physicians also report being sexually harassed and personally attacked on these platforms on the basis of their religion, race or medical recommendations.

4 Jan 2021

Sweetened beverage sales bounced back following the repeal of Cook County tax

Following the repeal of the short-lived Cook County, Illinois Sweetened Beverage Tax, sales of sweetened beverages went right back to where they were before the tax went into place, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago. The study is published in JAMA Network Open.

4 Jan 2021

Revision of WHO guideline on ensuring balance in national policies for safe use of controlled substances

In June 2019, WHO announced the revision of two pain management guidelines.

4 Jan 2021

Experts assess the impact of COVID-19 on pediatric patients with special needs

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children with disabilities has not received much attention, perhaps because the disease disproportionately affects older individuals.

4 Jan 2021

FDA takes first steps in bringing clarity to emerging area of individualized drug development

Advances in scientific knowledge and drug development technology have provided an opportunity for new approaches to drug development, including the development of drugs for the treatment of rare diseases.

4 Jan 2021

Simple bodyweight exercises are a time-efficient approach to improve cardiorespiratory fitness

Kinesiologists at McMaster University who examined the effectiveness of old-school physical training have found that simple bodyweight exercises, when performed vigorously over short periods, improve cardiorespiratory fitness.

4 Jan 2021

Oregon's Medicaid expansion increased prenatal care, improved health outcomes for newborns

A pair of recent studies from Oregon State University found that Oregon's Medicaid expansion in 2014 has led to increased prenatal care among low-income women, as well as improved health outcomes for newborn babies.

4 Jan 2021

Frequent travelers are happier with their lives than others

People dreaming of travel post-COVID-19 now have some scientific data to support their wanderlust.

4 Jan 2021

Child's cancer has different effects on fathers' and mothers' earnings

Mothers and fathers of children diagnosed with cancer are affected financially in different ways. While mothers' incomes fall in the short term and then rise, the adverse financial repercussions on fathers occur later.

4 Jan 2021

Study explores perspectives of patients and their families during and after critical illness

The outcomes that matter to patients and their families may not mirror the metrics commonly used by healthcare professionals to evaluate the quality of care, according to a study published in American Journal of Critical Care.

4 Jan 2021

Smoking traditional cigarettes along with e-cigarettes causes harmful health effects

Smoking traditional cigarettes in addition to using e-cigarettes results in harmful health effects similar to smoking cigarettes exclusively, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation.

4 Jan 2021

Seniors face crushing drug costs as Congress stalls on capping Medicare out-of-pockets

Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations.

4 Jan 2021

‘Last responders’ brace for surge in COVID deaths across US

Funeral director Kevin Spitzer has been overwhelmed with COVID-related deaths in the small city of Aberdeen, South Dakota.

4 Jan 2021

Heading off the next pandemic

As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it's expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one.

4 Jan 2021

Children’s hospitals are partly to blame as superbugs increasingly attack kids

A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV to keep her hydrated as she struggled against a superbug infection.

4 Jan 2021

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Hospital prices just got a lot more transparent. What does this mean for you?

Many health plans now must cover full cost of expensive HIV prevention drugs

Looking to the future will help safeguard mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns

Middle-aged adults with comorbidities high-risk category for COVID-19-related mortality in Mexican study

Researchers develop detailed map of protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and the host

Study describes physician experiences with online harassment

Sweetened beverage sales bounced back following the repeal of Cook County tax

Revision of WHO guideline on ensuring balance in national policies for safe use of controlled substances

Experts assess the impact of COVID-19 on pediatric patients with special needs

FDA takes first steps in bringing clarity to emerging area of individualized drug development

Simple bodyweight exercises are a time-efficient approach to improve cardiorespiratory fitness

Oregon's Medicaid expansion increased prenatal care, improved health outcomes for newborns

Frequent travelers are happier with their lives than others

Child's cancer has different effects on fathers' and mothers' earnings

Study explores perspectives of patients and their families during and after critical illness

Smoking traditional cigarettes along with e-cigarettes causes harmful health effects

Seniors face crushing drug costs as Congress stalls on capping Medicare out-of-pockets

‘Last responders’ brace for surge in COVID deaths across US

Heading off the next pandemic

Children’s hospitals are partly to blame as superbugs increasingly attack kids

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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