Medical research
Multiple measures of social distancing required to slow coronavirus
It takes multiple measures of social distancing to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, a study from Singapore concludes.
Mar 27, 2020
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News tagged with policy-makers
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 model finds evidence of flattening curve in Tennessee, recommends distancing policies continue
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have found evidence of the rate of COVID-19 infection slowing in Tennessee, which reduces the chance that the state will run out of hospital capacity for patients.
Apr 13, 2020
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Health
Readmissions reduction program may be associated with increase in patient-level mortality
A policy designed to reduce hospital readmissions through financial penalties was associated with a significant increase in post-discharge mortality for patients with heart failure and pneumonia, according to a large-scale ...
Dec 21, 2018
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Genetics
Putting COVID-19 diagnostic tests to the 'test'—how do they hold up?
As SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to mutate, it is important to check the efficacy of current diagnostic tests, say York University researchers, who found seven out of 27 methods had potential sequence mismatch issues that ...
Jun 10, 2020
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Diabetes
Conversion to type 2 diabetes declining
The number of people with pre-diabetes who go on to develop type 2 diabetes has been reducing over the past two decades, according to a study led by University of Manchester epidemiologists.
Sep 7, 2020
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Health
Air pollution 'pandemic' shortens lives by 3 years: study
A 'pandemic' of air pollution shortens lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causes 8.8 million premature deaths annually, scientists said Tuesday.
Mar 3, 2020
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Health
U.S. should look at how other high-income countries regulate health care costs: study
Structuring negotiations between insurers and providers, standardizing fee-for-service payments and negotiating prices can lower the United States' health care spending by slowing the rate at which healthcare prices increase, ...
Nov 22, 2020
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Addiction
Needle and syringe programmes cost-effectively prevent hepatitis C transmission
Providing clean injecting equipment through needle and syringe programmes is a highly cost-effective way of preventing hepatitis C (HCV) transmission among people who inject drugs and could save millions of pounds in infection ...
Jan 23, 2019
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Health
New study calls into question early claims of COVID-19 'infodemic' of health misinformation
In a first-of-its-kind study comparing hundreds of millions of social media posts about online health topics, a team of researchers found that posts about COVID-19 were less likely to contain misinformation than posts about ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Can a calculator predict your risk of dementia?
Canadian researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, the University of Ottawa, the Bruyère Research Institute and ICES have built and validated an online calculator that empowers individuals 55 and over to better understand the ...
Jun 25, 2021
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