Archive: 15/08/2019

Researchers, national leaders support keeping feeding tube orders on POLST form

Susan Hickman, Ph.D., director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute, and her colleagues nationwide are stressing the importance of including orders about artificial nutrition preferences ...

Aug 15, 2019

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Winning coaches' locker room secret

It's a staple of every sports movie: The team is down at the half, and the coach gives an inspirational locker room speech—think Gene Hackman in Hoosiers, Billy Bob Thornton in Friday Night Lights—leading the team to ...

Aug 15, 2019

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Gov't wants a new 911-like number just for suicide hotline

With suicides on the rise , the U.S. government wants to make the national crisis hotline easier to reach.

Aug 15, 2019

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FDA proposes graphic warning labels on cigarettes

(HealthDay)—Smokers would have to get past some gruesome imagery to purchase a pack of cigarettes under a new rule proposed Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Aug 15, 2019

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FDA approves drug for most deadly form of tuberculosis

(HealthDay)—A new drug has been approved as part of a powerful, three-pronged treatment regimen for the most deadly strain of tuberculosis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.

Aug 15, 2019

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Cost burden of disease progression high in multiple myeloma

(HealthDay)—The economic burden of disease progression is considerable among multiple myeloma (MM) patients receiving drug therapy across all lines of therapy (LOTs), according to a study published online Aug. 7 in Leukemia ...

Aug 15, 2019

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Burden of obesity-associated cancers shifted to younger age groups

(HealthDay)—From 2000 to 2016, there was a shift of the obesity-associated cancer (OAC) burden to younger age groups, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in JAMA Network Open.

Aug 15, 2019

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Does opioid maintenance treatment during pregnancy harm newborns?

A new Pharmacology Research & Perspectives study found no harm to newborns from opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) during pregnancy compared with no treatment.

Aug 15, 2019

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Age could be key to women's worse quality of life post-stroke

After a stroke, women are known to have a worse health-related quality of life than men, both in the short term and long term. Now a study gives some insight into why, and what can be done to alter the aftermath.

Aug 15, 2019

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Screening for cervical spine risk factors could reduce CT scans by half

An estimated 8 million children suffer blunt trauma annually, and while cervical spine injury (CSI) is serious, it is uncommon. Screening children suffering from blunt trauma for CSI risk factors could cut unnecessary computed ...

Aug 15, 2019

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