Using broad race categories in medicine hides true health risks
Many medical studies record a patient's race using only the broad categories from the U.S. Census, which may conceal racial health disparities, a new study reports.
Aug 14, 2023
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Many medical studies record a patient's race using only the broad categories from the U.S. Census, which may conceal racial health disparities, a new study reports.
Aug 14, 2023
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Status epilepticus, a prolonged, potentially life-threatening seizure, is epilepsy's most severe manifestation. Patients known to have refractory status epilepticus are more likely to need ICU care if initial treatment is ...
Aug 10, 2023
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Hospital toxicologist Ryan Marino has seen up close the violent reactions of children poisoned by liquid nicotine from electronic cigarettes. One young boy who came to his emergency room experienced intense nausea, diarrhea, ...
Aug 9, 2023
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When a middle-aged man arrived at Margate's HCA Northwest Hospital emergency room with major muscle cramping from his feet to his shoulders. Dr. Craig Kushnir knew right away what was going on.
Aug 8, 2023
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Price increases were the largest source of spending per visit in emergency rooms over the past decade in four of five states studied, according to a new report from researchers at Rice University and UTHealth Houston School ...
Aug 8, 2023
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In the 1990s, two hurricanes devastated Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean, wiping entire communities off the map and killing dozens of people. "Everything was just decimated," Malama Tafuna'i, a primary care physician in Apia, ...
Aug 3, 2023
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For the fourth summer in a row, Americans are experiencing a COVID-19 surge, this one marked by a rise in hospital admissions, emergency room visits, test positivity rates and wastewater data.
Jul 31, 2023
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Young adults whose drinking lands them in the emergency room respond differently to different interventions to reduce their hazardous drinking, and those differences may be driven by certain personal characteristics.
Jul 31, 2023
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Last Wednesday morning, a toddler arrived at the emergency department of UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville with a swollen jaw.
Jul 27, 2023
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Remote monitoring programs may enhance guideline-directed therapy—or the use of heart medication—for heart failure patients. That was the finding of cardiologists with the Comprehensive Heart Failure Program at UC Davis ...
Jul 26, 2023
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