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In-Hospital Opioid Deaths

Much of the public attention on the opioid-epidemic has been focused on the harm caused by prescription use and abuse of opioids. However, there is another facet that must be focused on: opioid-induced respiratory depression in clinical settings. ECRI Institute has repeatedly issued warnings in its annual report on health technology hazards about undetected opioid-induced […]

August 29, 2018

Experts Denounce Denial of Ebola Vaccine to Pregnant Women

The exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from an effort to vaccinate people exposed to the Ebola virus in the current outbreak is wrong, indefensible, and should be reversed, three public health experts wrote Monday in an opinion article published in STAT. The Johns Hopkins University experts argued it is unfair to deny pregnant and […]

August 29, 2018

HHS Hears About Patient-Empowering Technologies

HHS Deputy Secretary Eric D. Hargan hosted the department’s first PETS summit on Wednesday, and nary a dog nor cat was in sight. But there were entrepreneurs and providers who are using smart phones, software IT and AI to help empower patients to take control of their health and improve their well-being. These tools are […]

August 29, 2018

More Patients Survive Cardiac Arrest with New EMS Technique

A new study showed that a change in the type of breathing tube paramedics use to resuscitate patients with sudden cardiac arrest can significantly improve the odds of survival and save thousands of lives. More than 90 percent of Americans who experience sudden cardiac arrest die before, or soon after, reaching a hospital. Read More

August 29, 2018

Urban-Rural Disparities Disappear in Clinical Trials

Rural-urban disparities in cancer outcomes recede for patients enrolled in clinical trials, a new study in JAMA Network Open finds. The study’s authors explain that patients who participate in clinical trials “are uniformly staged, treated, and followed up under protocol-specific guidelines, reducing the potential influences of inconsistent pretreatment evaluation, care, and posttreatment surveillance.” Read More

August 29, 2018

Ethnically Diverse South Florida to Play Role In National Health Study

South Florida’s ethnic diversity will play a key role in an ambitious five-year medical research effort aimed at making treatments and drugs more effective by tailoring them to the lifestyles, genetics and environment of individual patients. Led by the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine and funded by a $60 million grant from the […]

August 29, 2018

CDC Reports Surge in STDs

New cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis spiked nearly 10 percent in 2017, continuing a four-year trend of rising sexually transmitted diseases fueled by a lack of awareness and changing sexual behavior, federal health officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 2.29 million new cases of these three common yet treatable […]

August 29, 2018

Report: Enlisted Women Show More Adverse Mental Effects Than Officers After Injury

Within a year after suffering a combat-related injury in Iraq or Afghanistan, 40 percent of military women were diagnosed with a mental health condition, according to a new study. Of particular concern is that enlisted women were more likely to have a diagnosis of a mental health disorder and had “significantly lower quality of life” […]

August 29, 2018

Glioblastoma: McCain’s Disease ‘Complex’ and ‘Aggressive’

Glioblastoma has been described as an “aggressive” form of brain cancer that usually occurs in adults. McCain, an Arizona Republican who served in the Senate for more than 30 years, was diagnosed with the disease in July 2017 and succumbed to it 13 months later. Read More

August 27, 2018

The Cost of Obesity

The relationship between excess weight and the risk of illness has been known since the time of the ancient Greeks. Yet, the epidemic of obesity experienced in the United States and other Western cultures in the last few decades has made this relationship more clear. Read More

August 27, 2018

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Legionnaires’ Outbreak Reported in N.H. Neighborhood

HAMPTON — An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has infected four people with the potentially serious bacterial pneumonia, state health officials announced Saturday. All of the cases of the Legionella pneumonia are centered around the area of Ashworth Avenue, between Island Path and H Street, in Hampton Beach, officials said. Read More

August 27, 2018

Doctors Running on Democratic Ticket Talk Health Care

Rob Davidson, an emergency physician from western Michigan, had never considered running for Congress. Then came the town hall meeting in early 2017 that Davidson decided to attend. The 46-year-old Democrat found himself going one-on-one with Rep. Bill Huizenga, his Republican congressman for six years. “I told him about my patients,” Davidson recalled. “I see, […]

August 27, 2018

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Study: Any Alcohol Consumption Is Bad for You

WHEN it comes to drinking alcohol, the healthiest thing to do is abstain entirely, according to a large, wide-ranging report published by scientists. Alcohol led to 2.8 million premature deaths in 2016; it was the leading risk factor for premature mortality and disability in the 15 to 49 age group, accounting for 20 per cent […]

August 27, 2018

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Meharry: Ending Affirmative Action Will Mean Fewer Black Doctors in Poor Areas

The leader of Nashville’s historically black medical college said Friday that a Trump Administration decision to roll-back Obama-era affirmative action policies will trigger a domino effect in higher education that will ultimately lead to fewer doctors in many low-income, minority neighborhoods. Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, said the decision will exacerbate a […]

August 27, 2018

Enhance Racial Disparities Training, Say Primary Care Residents

Disparities in both health status and access to health care in the United States are widely acknowledged problems that have received much attention from the AAFP and a host of other medical professional organizations across the country. The timeliness of the topic increases the value of recently published research(link.springer.com) that explores primary care residents’ awareness […]

August 27, 2018

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Report Hidden for Years: Almost Every Native American Woman Victim of Sexual Violence

In 2010, a Seattle-based survey co-produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Urban Indian Health Institute found that nearly every Native woman had been raped or coerced into sex at least once in their lives. You may be wondering why a survey that’s eight years out of date is only […]

August 27, 2018

Free Med School

When New York University announced last week that it would provide all of its medical students full-tuition scholarships from now on, the school politely challenged its competitors to follow suit. “We hope that many other academic medical centers will soon choose to join us on this path,” Robert Grossman, the school of medicine’s dean and […]

August 22, 2018

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‘Blind’ Vet Kept Driving

WITCHITA, Kan. (Tribune News Service) — A U.S. Army veteran who pretended to be blind, even as he kept driving, has been charged with theft of government funds, officials said. Addison Lewis, 39, of Hutchinson, Kan., was charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and two counts of theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Stephen […]

August 22, 2018