Archive: 16/08/2017
Acupuncture, electrotherapy after knee replacement associated with reduced and delayed opioid use
An analysis of drug-free interventions to reduce pain or opioid use after total knee replacement found modest but clinically significant evidence that acupuncture and electrotherapy can potentially reduce and delay opioid ...
Aug 16, 2017
Moving beyond nudges to improve health and health care policies
With countries around the world struggling to deliver quality health care and contain costs, a team of behavioral economists led by Carnegie Mellon University's George Loewenstein believes it's time to apply recent insights ...
Aug 16, 2017
Study examines initial events linked to sustained opioid use
Most of the events that led to sustained prescription opioid use were not hospital events and associated procedures, but diagnoses that were either nonspecific or associated with spinal or other conditions for which opioid ...
Aug 16, 2017
Why teens take risks: It's not a deficit in brain development
A popular theory in recent neuroscience proposes that slow development of the prefrontal cortex - and its weak connectivity with brain reward regions - explains teenagers' seemingly impulsive and risky behavior. But an extensive ...
Aug 16, 2017
Zika pandemic study shows health authorities can improve communication and monitoring
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who studied health monitoring and communication during the recent Zika pandemic have proposed ways for health authorities to better contain future pandemics.
Aug 16, 2017
Increased support could reduce attrition rates among general surgery residents
Because of the expected growth in the nation's population, recent forecasts have predicted the United States will have a deficit of as many as 29,000 surgeons by 2030, a shortfall that has made the successful training of ...
Aug 16, 2017