Older adults are more digitally connected than ever, even though their uptake of internet-based technologies remains lower than for younger age groups.
Mar 26, 2019
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A research team led by investigators from the National Institutes of Health and Global Good has developed a computer algorithm that can analyze digital images of a woman's cervix and accurately identify precancerous changes ...
Jan 10, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Emergency treatment rarely allows you much time to consider your options. But what about care that can be done on your timetable?
Aug 7, 2018
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In an essay published July 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Ira Leeds, M.D., research fellow, and David Efron, M.D., professor of surgery, both of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, along with their ...
Jul 27, 2018
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The health care systems in the United States and other industrialized countries have outgrown many of the childbirth-related injuries that are still very problematic in poor countries.
May 21, 2018
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The prevalence of obesity has risen dramatically in the U.S., but there has been little information about the economic impact of this trend for individual states.
Feb 7, 2018
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Patients who ask for specialist referrals, laboratory tests or certain medications and don't get them tend to be less satisfied with their doctors than those whose requests are fulfilled, new research from UC Davis Health ...
Nov 28, 2017
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The U.S. has seen substantial improvements in life expectancy over the past century, particularly for those who are better-educated and more affluent.
Sep 19, 2017
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A new national survey of more than 2,000 physicians across multiple specialties finds that physicians believe overtreatment is common and mostly perpetuated by fear of malpractice, as well as patient demand and some profit ...
Sep 6, 2017
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An innovative new methodology for evaluating the benefits of new medicines has been developed by a team of researchers led by health economics and policy experts from the Department of Health Policy at the London School of ...
Sep 4, 2017
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