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Trial Begins Over VA Delay in Cancer Case
PHOENIX — A lawyer for a military veteran opened a medical-negligence trial by saying his client’s now-terminal prostate cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. Attorneys defending the Veterans Administration countered that a nurse practitioner involved in the case of Steven Harold Cooper complied with the applicable […]
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Epidemic Tracking Tool Wins Science Prize
A prototype online platform that uses real-time visualization and viral genome data to track the spread of global pathogens such as Zika and Ebola is the grand prize winner of the Open Science Prize(link. The international team competition is an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the […]
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Youth With Type 2 Diabetes Face Most Complications
Teens and young adults with type 2 diabetes develop kidney, nerve, and eye diseases – as well as some risk factors for heart disease – more often than their peers with type 1 diabetes in the years shortly after diagnosis. The results are the latest findings of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth(link is external) […]
Disparities
Patrick Kennedy Wants to Protect Mental Health Coverage
After his father, Ted Kennedy, passed away, former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy chose not to run for re-election in the House of Representatives so he could devote more energy to the issue that he cares most deeply about: changing the way we talk about and treat millions of Americans who suffer from mental health disorders. […]
Policies
Reform Could Offer Opportunity in Digital Healthcare
The next few years are likely to see a major attempt to use market mechanisms to reduce the cost of U. S. healthcare. Healthcare costs are rising again, and Republican campaign promises will put huge pressure on the federal budget. Republicans prefer market based solutions to problems, and they harshly criticize the parts of Obamacare […]
Policies
GOP Under Pressure to Revamp Health Plan
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier. With the GOP-controlled Congress starting its third month of work on […]
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Trump Discusses Healthcare, Minus Details
President Donald Trump renewed his call to repeal and “replace” the Affordable Care Act during his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, but he once again did not offer any real details about what should succeed the landmark health care overhaul. Throughout his campaign and ever since his surprising Election Day victory, Trump […]
Blogs/Opinion
Our $1 Million Medical Bill
Avoidable medical complications plague American families physically, emotionally — and economically. A poignant example of the damage caused not by accidents but by failures in the health care system was recently identified and carefully studied in the medical device space. An analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that physicians, hospitals and manufacturer failed […]
Disparities
NIH: Brain Scans Detect Autism Earlier
For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), early diagnosis is critical to allow for possible interventions at a time when the brain is most amenable to change. But that’s been tough to implement for a simple reason: the symptoms of ASD, such as communication difficulties, social deficits, and repetitive behaviors, often do not show up […]
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Can Having Role Models Produce More Minority Doctors?
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Eight of Melissa Cornett’s 10 children want to be doctors. The oldest, at 29, hopes to become a family physician; the youngest, who’s “almost 9,” wants to be an ER doctor. Although they all have endured the typical bumps, bruises, and medical crises of childhood, they’ve only ever met two doctors who […]
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Obamacare’s Popularity Goes Up
Obamacare is getting more popular with voters even as President Donald Trump moves to get rid of the landmark health-care law. A total of 45 percent of registered voters say they approve of Obamacare, compared to 45 percent who oppose the law, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds. Since early January — weeks before Trump […]
Disparities
Biotech Firm May Hold Key to Long, Healthy Life
As Trump shakes up the White House, pharma and biotech are on edge. While the media talks about Obamacare, it turns out that Trump’s new FDA chief could have a bigger impact on health care and associated markets. The story here is that a company in liberal Northern California may have the most to gain […]
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