Expanding home blood pressure monitoring among US adults with hypertension could substantially reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease and save healthcare costs in the long term, according to a new study in the American ...
Jul 13, 2023
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A new talking therapy for depression has shown encouraging early signs of being more effective and cheaper to deliver than the current best practice of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Jul 13, 2023
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Professor Daniel Hermens, who leads the Longitudinal Adolescent Brain Study (LABS) at UniSC's Thompson Institute, has published research in the journal Futures suggesting the future of preventative mental health could lie ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Low-cost, routine testing may help to reduce disparities and health care costs for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published today ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Flinders University experts are working on better solutions for sleep apnea to ward off a range of health risks, including cognitive decline.
Jun 8, 2023
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The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have protested would limit women's options for reconstructive surgery.
Jun 1, 2023
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Worldwide, one of the initial responses to the COVID-19 virus was locking down parts of the economy to reduce social interactions and the virus's spread. Now, the development and production of vaccines have largely replaced ...
May 30, 2023
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Tobacco use imposes a large health and economic burden worldwide. Research estimates that, in 2019, about 8 million deaths were attributable to tobacco smoking. Tobacco also reduces years of healthy living: about 200 million ...
May 30, 2023
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A new distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of gene therapy versus standard-of-care for sickle cell disease (SCD) found that while gene therapy is cost-ineffective by conventional measures, it can be an equitable therapeutic ...
May 29, 2023
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The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. will reach US$14 trillion by the end of 2023, our team of economists, public policy researchers and other experts have estimated.
May 17, 2023
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