October is National Health Literacy Month. Health literacy refers to the ability of people to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
Oct 26, 2023
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Asthma is one of the most common, chronic pediatric diseases in the United States, complicated by persistent disparities in care and outcomes. While hospital systems are determined to tackle this issue, researchers believe ...
Oct 23, 2023
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Velsipity (etrasimod) for adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC).
Oct 18, 2023
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Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine, studying multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice, identified a protein that could reshape the understanding of MS treatments.
Oct 16, 2023
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Austria's capital Vienna on Wednesday rolled out a program to combat "period poverty" with drugstores offering free sanitary products to disadvantaged women.
Oct 11, 2023
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The rate of firearm homicide among Hispanic populations in the United States was more than two times higher than that of white Americans in 2021, the largest disparity in more than a decade, according to new research led ...
Oct 3, 2023
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About 1,900 U.S. children are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. A University of Texas at Arlington expert said that number can be lowered though more patient education—starting in the pediatrician's office.
Sep 29, 2023
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A unique program that sees students at the Medical College of Georgia working as anesthesia technologists throughout their four years of medical school can influence more of them to pursue the specialty as a career, investigators ...
Sep 6, 2023
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Aging populations, growing regional communities and an exhausted workforce are among the factors contributing to a chronic nurse shortage in regional and rural Australia.
Aug 30, 2023
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There are opportunities for improving the structure of hospital-based sepsis programs to optimize patient outcomes, and new guidance has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Hospital Sepsis ...
Aug 29, 2023
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