How do people really feel about electronic health records?

Karola Marky (left) and Rebecca Panskus interviewed people about the electronic patient record.© RUB, MarquardThe image may only be used in the context of the press release “How do people…

How abortion ban exemptions play out in a post-‘Roe’ world

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain This pregnancy felt different. After the heartache of more than a dozen miscarriages, Anya Cook was 16 weeks along. She and husband Derick Cook spent a…

Survival similar for Black, White prostate cancer patients in clinical trial setting

For metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC), overall survival and progression-free survival are similar for Black and White patients receiving first- or second-generation androgen receptor pathway inhibitors within a clinical trial,…

Children and adolescents in food-insecure homes had more mental health visits

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children and adolescents living in food-insecure households had a 55% higher frequency of physician visits for mental health reasons than those with adequate food supplies, according…

Analysis shows two in three cosmetic surgery injections in the UK are not administered by doctors

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain According to an analysis of the UK’s cosmetic injectables industry by University College London researchers, 68% of cosmetic practitioners who are administering injections such as Botox…

A plan to cut Montana’s Medicaid waiting list was met with bipartisan cheers. Then a veto

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pay for…

Patient transfer systems needed to ensure equity, as ICUs overload during pandemic

Credit: CC0 Public Domain During the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals had overcapacity intensive care units (ICU) while other area hospitals had open ICU beds available, a phenomenon known as…

AI must not worsen health inequalities for ethnic minority populations, say epidemiologists

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists are urging caution before artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT are used in health care for ethnic minority populations. Writing in the Journal of…

Study finds NPP-billed imaging increased 27% from 2016–2020

by Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by the Harvey L Neiman Health Policy Institute found that rates of diagnostic imaging interpretation by…

CDC data amplifies calls for funding hepatitis plan

Electron micrographs of hepatitis C virus purified from cell culture. Scale bar is 50 nanometers. Credit: Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University. Only one-third of individuals…