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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': An encore: 3 HHS secretaries reveal what the job is really like

This week, while KFF Health News' "What the Health?" takes a break, here’s an encore of a favorite episode this year: Host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former secretaries of Health and Human Services.

5 Oct 2023

Can falsified or substandard antimicrobials increase antimicrobial resistance?

The association between substandard or falsified (SF) antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

5 Oct 2023

Remote ischemic conditioning for acute stroke

The effect of remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) on functional outcomes in patients with acute stroke.

5 Oct 2023

ADHD found to increase crash risk among older driving adults

The association between ADHD and car crash risk among older adult drivers.

5 Oct 2023

Esketamine nasal spray superior in achieving remission in patients with treatment-resistant depression

Both severe depression and treatment-resistant depression are common. Up to one third of patients do not respond to conventional therapy with antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).

5 Oct 2023

New zebrafish xenograft platform could help screen for glioblastoma treatments

Scientists have created a new zebrafish xenograft platform to screen for novel treatments for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma, according to a new study by the Gerhardt and De Smet labs published in EMBO Molecular Medicine.

4 Oct 2023

Cancer tumors hijack genetic program of developing nerves, study shows

Cancer tumors "hijack" the genetic program used by developing nerves. This is shown in a study by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden.

4 Oct 2023

AI model combines imaging and patient data to improve chest X-ray diagnosis

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model combines imaging information with clinical patient data to improve diagnostic performance on chest X-rays, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.

4 Oct 2023

Breastfeeding policies may come at a steep cost for mothers

Breast is best, or so the campaign launched by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

4 Oct 2023

New device simulates human diseases in multiple organs

Imagine a device smaller than a toddler's shoebox that can simulate any human disease in multiple organs or test new drugs without ever entering - or harming - the body.

4 Oct 2023

Study finds increase in mental health spending for children, adolescents since the beginning of pandemic

Spending on mental health services for children and adolescents has risen by more than one-quarter since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing to rise even as the use of telehealth plateaued, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

4 Oct 2023

Social Security chief orders broad review of benefit overpayments

The federal agency that oversees Social Security announced today that it will review the way it handles "overpayments" - money it sends beneficiaries that it later determines they weren't entitled to receive.

4 Oct 2023

Independent physician practices more resilient during COVID-19, study finds

Large health systems are acquiring smaller physician practices at what some consider an alarming rate, leaving fewer independent practices.

4 Oct 2023

USC receives $2 million grant to advance cell and gene therapy research

The Keck School of Medicine of USC has received $2 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to further augment its newly launched cGMP Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility designed to advance early-stage research into clinically viable cell and gene therapies.

4 Oct 2023

Esketamine outperforms one of the standard drugs for treatment-resistant major depression

A major clinical trial shows that the drug, esketamine, one of the two main forms of ketamine, outperforms one of the standard treatments for treatment-resistant major depression.

4 Oct 2023

Walkable neighborhoods reduce risk of obesity-related cancers in women

Residing in a more walkable neighborhood protects against the risk of overall obesity-related cancers in women, specifically postmenopausal breast cancer, but also ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, and multiple myeloma, according to a new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

4 Oct 2023

Ohio State receives $20 million TCORS grant to conduct tobacco regulation science research

The Ohio State University (OSU) has been awarded a $20 million Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) grant from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products and National Institutes of Health.

4 Oct 2023

Groundbreaking research focuses on brain health monitoring, early detection of neurodegenerative diseases

Associate Professor at the University of Oulu Teemu Myllylä, a leading expert in biomedical engineering, recently discussed his team's groundbreaking work in brain health monitoring and early detection of neurodegenerative diseases at the recent 6G-enabled sustainable society event.

4 Oct 2023

Study confirms accuracy of Vienna Prediction Model for venous thromboembolism

A prediction model can be used to identify people affected by venous thromboembolism who have only a low risk of recurrence and may not require long-term blood thinning.

4 Oct 2023

New AI model predicts therapeutic targets for age-related diseases

A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 18, entitled, "Biomedical generative pre-trained based transformer language model for age-related disease target discovery."

4 Oct 2023