Nearly half the country (44%), or about 114 million Americans, give poor (30%) or failing (14%) grades to the U.S. health care system, percentages that climb higher and grow even more negative when it comes to affordability ...
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(Medical Xpress) -- Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according ...
Jun 15, 2012
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Millions of people work nights, but increasingly scientists are finding that night work is associated with health problems. Now a group of Italian scientists has found that nightshift workers also need to pee more, leading ...
Mar 16, 2019
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Canagliflozin, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, was found to greatly improve symptoms and quality of life within 3 months for people with heart failure due to either reduced or preserved cardiac function, even ...
Nov 15, 2021
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Schizophrenia is a complex and chronic mental disorder affecting more than 2 million people in the United States.
Jun 23, 2011
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For decades, obesity rates in the U.S. have been increasing. Now researchers predict that by 2030, nearly half of adults will be obese if the current trend continues.
Jul 10, 2020
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After childbirth, some women who received an epidural for pain will develop a debilitating headache. But minority women are less likely than white moms to receive the treatment that can provide relief, according to a new ...
Apr 25, 2022
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If pharmacists had a larger role in prescribing medications to control blood pressure, they could prevent more than 15 million heart attacks, nearly 8 million strokes and more than 4 million cases each of angina and heart ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Biases embedded in artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly used in health care risk deepening discrimination against older people, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday.
Feb 9, 2022
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New research published in the Journal of Counseling & Development found a difference in tolerance toward individuals with schizophrenia depending on whether mental health counselors and counselors-in-training received a survey ...
Sep 22, 2021
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