Credit: CC0 Public Domain As part of a nationwide trend, many more of NYU Langone Health’s patients during the pandemic started using electronic health record tools to ask their doctors…
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Tax on antibiotics could help tackle threat of drug resistance, says study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance in humans, according to a new study by the University of East…
Insurance coverage disruptions, challenges accessing care common amid Medicaid unwinding
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a survey of low-income adults across Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas, one in eight respondents who were enrolled in Medicaid at some point since March…
Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel’s medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was…
Economic burden of childhood verbal abuse by adults estimated at $300 billion globally
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Childhood verbal abuse by adults costs society an estimated $300 billion (£239 billion) a year globally, show findings presented at the first international conference on childhood…
More patients are losing their doctors—and trust in the primary care system
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad…
Your doctor or your insurer? Little-known rules may ease the choice in Medicare Advantage
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either…
Study highlights socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence of multiple long-term health conditions in England
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that, if current patterns in multimorbidity accumulation persist, there will be approximately a one-third (34%) increase in…
Intervention with surgeons improves the accuracy of predicted operating room time
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Reducing the manipulation of operating room (OR) scheduling can improve scheduling accuracy and potentially maximize OR usage, avoid delays, and enhance patient satisfaction, according to a…
Modern lifestyle heart disease risk factors threaten extremely poor people in low- and middle-income countries
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study reveals that many people living in extreme poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have conditions that lead to heart disease, the world’s…
