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Homelessness found to be a major issue for many patients in the emergency department
Housing insecurity is an issue for one in 20 patients who go to emergency departments at major medical centers in the Southeast, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study published in JAMA Network Open.
Apr 26, 2024
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Medscape removes education courses for doctors funded by tobacco giant
Medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure and agreed to permanently remove a series of accredited medical education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International ...
Apr 26, 2024
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Continued Medicare reimbursement declines could threaten access to physicians
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that physician reimbursement per Medicare patient decreased 2.3% between 2005 and 2021 when accounting for inflation, despite a concurrent increase of 45.5% in physician ...
Apr 26, 2024
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Rising hospital closures disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities
Over the past three decades, hospital closures have been on the rise in both urban and rural areas. Real-life consequences take many forms: creating barriers to accessing medical care, increasing transport times and potentially ...
Apr 26, 2024
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Canada-wide child care: It's now less expensive, but finding it is more difficult
Three years after the federal government launched the Canada-wide early learning and child-care plan (CWELCC), our study conducted through the Atkinson Center for Society and Child Development at the University of Toronto ...
Apr 26, 2024
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New research finds paid family leave helps prevent child abuse
Child maltreatment is a serious public health issue in the United States, particularly affecting young children who are most vulnerable due to their dependence on caregivers. Infants under two years old account for over one-quarter, ...
Apr 25, 2024
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What is health equity? How the idea grew—and why it matters
It's an idea as old as modern medicine and as new as the latest medical research. No matter how you look at health equity, the conversation involves contradictions.
Apr 25, 2024
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He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital: Now he's trying to change the industry
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife's death.
Apr 25, 2024
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Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
Apr 25, 2024
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Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid—with work requirements
In Humphreys County, Mississippi—about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region—a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful of health ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Lax antitrust enforcement linked to rising hospital prices
A new study co-authored by a Yale economist provides evidence that insufficient antitrust enforcement in the U.S. hospital sector is contributing to reduced competition and higher prices for hospital care.
Apr 24, 2024
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Proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid could cost thousands of lives, study finds
Proposed changes to the United States' Medicare and Medicaid programs could lead to thousands of additional deaths each year, a new Yale study reveals. The study was published April 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Most acute care hospitals do not admit representative proportion of Black Medicare patients in their local market: Study
A study analyzing a large sample of Medicare admissions at nearly 2,000 acute care hospitals nationwide during 2019 found that most hospitals—nearly four out of five—admitted a significantly different proportion of Black ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Health shocks driven by air pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil found to disrupt health care as a result of limited capacity
Since developing countries have both lower levels of hospital infrastructure and serious health shocks driven by air pollution, how responsive are their health care systems to these health shocks? In a new study, researchers ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Study points to racial and social barriers that block treatment for multiple myeloma
A UC Davis Health study reveals persistent racial and social disparities preventing access to autoHCT, a common bone marrow transplant treatment to halt the progression of multiple myeloma.
Apr 23, 2024
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Dengue fever infections found to have negative impacts on infant health for three years
Dengue infections in pregnant women may have a negative impact on the first years of children's lives, new research has found.
Apr 23, 2024
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Novel study quantifies immense economic costs of mental illness in the US
Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion annually, which is equivalent to the average economic recession, according to a new study co-authored by Yale economist Aleh Tsyvinski.
Apr 23, 2024
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Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors
At least two-thirds of Medicare enrollees have two or more chronic health conditions, federal data shows. That makes them eligible for a federal program that, since 2015, has rewarded doctors for doing more to manage their ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Clinician burnout reduces efficacy of trauma-focused psychotherapy
Therapist burnout is associated with reduced effectiveness of trauma-focused psychotherapies, according to a study published online April 17 in JAMA Network Open.
Apr 23, 2024
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How corporate involvement in psychedelic research could threaten public safety
In the mid-20th century, psychedelics were deemed illegal substances with little medical purpose, a high potential for abuse and a lack of safety. However, emerging evidence suggests the opposite; a potential role for these ...
Apr 23, 2024
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