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…
Tag: Medical economics
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…
Being born in a city no longer increases their chances of survival
by Peter Macharia, Andrea Barnabas Pembe, Claudia Hanson and Lenka Benova, The Conversation Each dot on this map represents a group of households surveyed during the 2016 Tanzania Demographic and…
Expanded Child Tax Credit led to improved health and nutrition among adults
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Child Tax Credit expansion, which expired at the end of 2021, has not been renewed due to concerns among legislators over the credit being overly…
More than 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls
by DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DeMILLO Gary Rush poses for a photo outside the Pennsylvania Capitol, June 7, 2023, in Harrisburg, Pa. Rush was demonstrating with the advocacy group…
Transgender people seen in the ER much more likely than cisgender people to be admitted to hospital
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Transgender people who come to the emergency room for care tend to be sicker than cisgender people who are otherwise similar to them and are much…
One-month of COVID-19 lockdown cost heart attack patients up to two years of life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients who had heart attacks during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and Spain are predicted to live 1.5 and 2 years less, respectively, than…
How raising tobacco taxes can save lives and cut poverty across the Asia-Pacific
Credit: Shutterstock The human costs of tobacco and smoking worldwide are huge. 1.3 billion people use tobacco, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. More than 8 million people die prematurely…
