Archive: 01/04/2015
MA health reform did not lower preventable hospitalizations or reduce racial disparities
In the first three years after Massachusetts implemented its 2006 health care reform, which reduced the number of uninsured people in the state by roughly half, the rate of preventable hospitalizations did not decline compared ...
Apr 1, 2015
Dangers of adolescent energy drink consumption for the heart
The rapid rise in popularity of energy drinks (EDs), particularly among adolescents (aged 10-19 years) and young adults, has serious implications for cardiac health. In an article published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, ...
Apr 1, 2015
Researchers "smell" new receptors that could underlie the many actions of the anesthetic drug ketamine
Penn Medicine researchers are continuing their work in trying to understand the mechanisms through which anesthetics work to elicit the response that puts millions of Americans to sleep for surgeries each day. Their most ...
Apr 1, 2015