Archive: 06/10/2016

Federal government: Mylan has been overcharging for EpiPens

Even the federal government is apparently paying too much for EpiPens, along with angry patients and insurers.

Oct 6, 2016

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Global health: longer lives, more lifestyle disease

Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released Thursday.

Oct 6, 2016

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Adults with disabilities on Medicaid wait list most likely to have unmet service needs

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities on Illinois' Medicaid wait list who are minorities, in poor health or unable to speak are more likely to have unmet service needs, a new study found.

Oct 6, 2016

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Psychologist creates tool for measuring memory

Psychologist Jamie Edgin studies human memory at the University of Arizona, where her research often involves working with very young children and children with intellectual disabilities.

Oct 6, 2016

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Hospital rankings may rely on faulty data, study finds

The October 2016 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, features the article "Consumer Rankings and Health Care: Toward Validation and Transparency" by Bala Hota, MD, MPH, and co-authors, Rush ...

Oct 6, 2016

PSA for prostate screening unaffected by changes in screening guidelines

Controversy over prostate cancer screening guidelines that discourage use of PSA tests did not significantly reduce use of the test, a five-year review of more than 275,000 visits at UT Southwestern Medical Center showed.

Oct 6, 2016

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Preserving the power of antibiotics

Of the 10 million prescriptions for antibiotics that emergency department physicians in the U.S. write each year, many are prescribed for known viral infections such as acute bronchitis and upper respiratory infections, which ...

Oct 6, 2016

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Scientists identify how repair protein finds DNA damage

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have demonstrated how Rad4, a protein involved in DNA repair, scans the DNA in a unique pattern of movement ...

Oct 6, 2016

Human neurons continue to migrate after birth, research finds

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a previously unknown mass migration of inhibitory neurons into the brain's frontal cortex during the first few months after birth, revealing a stage of brain development that ...

Oct 6, 2016

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Modest training may improve unlicensed health care, globally

In the developing world, a large portion of health care providers have no formal medical training. Now a new study of rural India, co-authored by an MIT professor, shows that modest levels of medical training can improve ...

Oct 6, 2016

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Archive: 06/10/2016

Federal government: Mylan has been overcharging for EpiPens

Global health: longer lives, more lifestyle disease

Adults with disabilities on Medicaid wait list most likely to have unmet service needs

Psychologist creates tool for measuring memory

Hospital rankings may rely on faulty data, study finds

PSA for prostate screening unaffected by changes in screening guidelines

Preserving the power of antibiotics

Scientists identify how repair protein finds DNA damage

Human neurons continue to migrate after birth, research finds

Modest training may improve unlicensed health care, globally

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