Approximately 13 billion laboratory tests are administered every year in the United States, but not every result is timely or accurate. Laboratory missteps prevent patients from receiving appropriate, necessary, and sometimes ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Most women with osteoporosis want to know their fracture risk, but only half have received this information from health care providers, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in Osteoporosis International.
Jan 1, 2024
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A paper published in JAMA Network Open addresses bias in health care algorithms and provides the health care community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors that have tainted the use of algorithms in other sectors.
Dec 15, 2023
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The Biden administration has again delayed enacting a ban on menthol cigarettes following intense lobbying from the tobacco industry.
Dec 7, 2023
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Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills.
Dec 7, 2023
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New research shows that alcohol manufacturers are adding nutrition messages to their pre-mixed alcohol products to lure in consumers, a move that public health experts say should prompt regulators to take urgent action to ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Health care has historically been slow to adopt new technologies that involve wholesale changes to the nature of the work. Witness the slow and checkered roll-out of electronic health records and the utter failure of prior ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Older adults are willing to up the fiber in their diet, but need help, a new study has shown.
Nov 21, 2023
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Very few patients with psoriasis are depicted in scientific articles—only a fraction of those included in the research are represented in images. This is revealed by a study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, together ...
Nov 20, 2023
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A group of international scientists say they have encountered many hurdles in accessing information for a study to examine clinical trial data used to support FDA-approved anticancer medicines even when the data was classified ...
Nov 15, 2023
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