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AJMC addresses role of community pharmacies in boosting adult vaccination rates

A recent publication from The American Journal of Managed Care, the leading peer-reviewed journal dedicated to issues in managed care, addresses the role of community pharmacies in boosting adult vaccination rates in the United States.

17 Aug 2018

Body mass index positively linked with blood pressure

Body mass index is positively associated with blood pressure, according to the ongoing study of 1.7 million Chinese men and women being conducted by researchers at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation and in China.

17 Aug 2018

Study shows electronic health records leave doctors and patients unsatisfied

Electronic Health Records are intended to streamline and improve access to information - and have been shown to improve quality of care - but a new study shows they also leave both doctors and patients unsatisfied, even after full implementation.

17 Aug 2018

OHSU professor conducts clinical trial with artificial pancreas using Xeris' liquid glucagon

Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company leveraging its novel technology platforms to develop and commercialize ready-to-use injectable and infusible drug formulations, announced today that Jessica Castle, M.D., an associate professor of medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine and OHSU Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center in Portland, Oregon, is conducting a clinical trial with a dual-hormone artificial pancreas using Xeris' ready-to-use liquid glucagon to evaluate a new closed-loop algorithm.

17 Aug 2018

ACR expresses concerns on step therapy in a recent meeting with HSS Secretary

Yesterday, the American College of Rheumatology met with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for a productive discussion about the rheumatology community's concerns with a new policy that will allow Medicare Advantage plans to utilize step therapy in Medicare Part B.

17 Aug 2018

Medicine on the front line to be presented at Medical Innovation 2018

This year, Medical Innovation will focus on healthcare on the front line. One of the highlights will be the British Army's Ice Maidens.

From Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 17 Aug 2018

OUHSC gets $20 million grant to advance research and patient care for Oklahomans

This week, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center announced the nationally competitive renewal of a $20 million federal grant that will advance research and patient care for Oklahomans throughout the state.

17 Aug 2018

Island Fertility joins Stony Brook Community Medical to provide comprehensive fertility care

Island Fertility has joined Stony Brook Community Medical, expanding to 23 the number of Stony Brook Medicine's network of community practices and physicians. The group offers comprehensive and integrated fertility care at Stony Brook Advanced Specialty Care facility in Commack, with a plan to add additional Long Island office locations.

17 Aug 2018

Patients with low-risk blood clots can be better treated at home than at hospital

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City has found that patients with low-risk blood clots may be better off receiving treatment at home versus being admitted to the hospital.

17 Aug 2018

Valley Hospital achieves Magnet recognition for fourth consecutive time

The Valley Hospital is proud to announce that it has achieved the prestigious Magnet recognition - the highest national honor for professional nursing practice - for a fourth consecutive time.

17 Aug 2018

UTHealth-led survey shows much work remains to increase safety of e-health records

Four years after their publication by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, voluntary guidelines designed to increase the safety of e-health records have yet to be implemented fully, according to a survey led by a researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

17 Aug 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ See you in court!

A federal district court judge in Texas has set Sept. 10 as the date for oral arguments in a case filed by Republican state attorneys general and governors from 20 states.

17 Aug 2018

Consequences of healthcare-associated infections go beyond patients' physical health

The consequences of healthcare-associated infections reach well beyond patients' physical health, souring social relationships, and leading some healthcare providers to distance themselves from affected patients, according to a qualitative, systematic review published in the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

16 Aug 2018

Energy-hog hospitals: When they start thinking green, they see green

Hospitals are energy hogs. With their 24/7 lighting, heating and water needs, they use up to five times more energy than a fancy hotel.

16 Aug 2018

Sun Pharma receives U.S. FDA approval for CEQUA to treat patients with dry eye disease

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. today announced that Sun Pharma has received approval for CEQUA (cyclosporine ophthalmic solution) 0.09%, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. CEQUA is indicated to increase tear production in patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye).

16 Aug 2018

Penn researchers develop first mouse model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The biggest hurdle to finding effective therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – a life-threatening condition in which the lungs become scarred and breathing is increasingly difficult – has been the inability to fully model the disease in animals, limiting the ability to observe and understand the disease.

16 Aug 2018

Restoring blood flow may be linked to longer survival in patients with critical limb ischemia

Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation condition may be cheaper and associated with longer survival, than amputation according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

15 Aug 2018

Liva Healthcare announces appointment of Thomas Cooke as clinical services manager in the UK

Liva Healthcare, the digital health platform designed to tackle chronic diseases, has appointed Thomas Cooke as clinical services manager in the UK.

From Liva Healthcare UK 15 Aug 2018

Clinical study shows how EarlySense system effectively detects opioid-induced respiratory depression

EarlySense, the market leader in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions across the care continuum, today announced that its system has been found to detect and alert for respiratory depression with high positive predictive value, according to a clinical poster presented at the 2018 American Thoracic Society Conference.

15 Aug 2018

Diabetes epidemic in Guatemala driven by aging, not obesity

The diabetes epidemic in Guatemala is worse than previously thought: more than 25 percent of its indigenous people, who make up 60 percent of the population, suffer from type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, suggests a new study published in PLOS ONE from researchers at the Penn Center for Global Health, in collaboration with the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City and the Hospitalito Atitlán.

14 Aug 2018

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

AJMC addresses role of community pharmacies in boosting adult vaccination rates

Body mass index positively linked with blood pressure

Study shows electronic health records leave doctors and patients unsatisfied

OHSU professor conducts clinical trial with artificial pancreas using Xeris' liquid glucagon

ACR expresses concerns on step therapy in a recent meeting with HSS Secretary

Medicine on the front line to be presented at Medical Innovation 2018

OUHSC gets $20 million grant to advance research and patient care for Oklahomans

Island Fertility joins Stony Brook Community Medical to provide comprehensive fertility care

Patients with low-risk blood clots can be better treated at home than at hospital

Valley Hospital achieves Magnet recognition for fourth consecutive time

UTHealth-led survey shows much work remains to increase safety of e-health records

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ See you in court!

Consequences of healthcare-associated infections go beyond patients' physical health

Energy-hog hospitals: When they start thinking green, they see green

Sun Pharma receives U.S. FDA approval for CEQUA to treat patients with dry eye disease

Penn researchers develop first mouse model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Restoring blood flow may be linked to longer survival in patients with critical limb ischemia

Liva Healthcare announces appointment of Thomas Cooke as clinical services manager in the UK

Clinical study shows how EarlySense system effectively detects opioid-induced respiratory depression

Diabetes epidemic in Guatemala driven by aging, not obesity

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