Medical economics
Almost 1 in 4 people disenrolled from Medicaid are now uninsured
Nearly a quarter of Americans who lost their pandemic-era Medicaid coverage say they're now without any health insurance, a new survey finds.
Apr 12, 2024
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Health
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing
Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019—and a racially biased organ test was to blame.
Apr 1, 2024
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Medical economics
How your in-network health coverage can vanish before you know it
Sarah Feldman, 35, received the first ominous letters from Mount Sinai Medical last November. The New York hospital system warned it was having trouble negotiating a pricing agreement with UnitedHealthcare, which includes ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Medications
Everything you need to know about the new over-the-counter birth control pill coming to retailers
After approval from the Food and Drug Administration last summer, Opill, a daily oral contraceptive, is now coming to retailers, making it the first birth control pill available without a prescription.
Mar 6, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Post-COVID-19 brain health impaired versus healthy controls
Brain health after COVID-19 is impaired, but no more than that seen for patients hospitalized for other medical conditions of similar severity, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 29, 2023
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Health informatics
Q&A: AI, medicine and race—why ending 'structural racism' in health care is crucial
As artificial intelligence changes the way medicine is practiced, humans become more beholden to algorithms—making it crucial to get those machine-human collaborations correct at the outset.
Nov 7, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Simple automated tool prompts physicians to screen patients with diabetes for kidney disease
Investigators have implemented an automated health maintenance tool created by the National Kidney Foundation into electronic medical records to prompt primary care physicians to screen for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Health
For LGBTQ people, friendly health care is important but can be hard to find
When Lindsey Huie arrived at the hospital that day in 2019, she had already hit peak stress.
Oct 18, 2023
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Health informatics
Researchers are building a cellular map of the musculoskeletal system
NDORMS researchers are leading the development of a roadmap, published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology, that provides a blueprint for building a single-cell resolution map of the human musculoskeletal system. The ambitious ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Genetics
Study connects imaging and genetic data to gain insights into the development of the pancreas
Our pancreas has different cells that do important jobs to control our blood sugar. One of the genes in pancreatic cells is called Neurogenin 3 (NEUROG3). Its mutation can lead to diabetes. It is active only for a short period ...
Aug 31, 2023
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