Controversial US tech company Palantir has been awarded a £330 million contract to create a new system for sharing data—including patients' medical details—within the NHS in England.
Nov 30, 2023
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Renting a private sector home, falling repeatedly into arrears, and exposure to pollution in the vicinity are linked to faster biological aging—the cumulative damage to the body's tissues and cells, irrespective of actual ...
Oct 10, 2023
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A recent ground-breaking series of reports in the science journal The Lancet unpacks what commercial determinants of health are, and how they affect public health. It uses a new, broader definition of the determinants: "the ...
Mar 29, 2023
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If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year.
Feb 26, 2023
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Canadian health economist Robert Evans called them zombies: ideas killed long ago by evidence, but re-emerging from the grave—often in disguise.
Jan 3, 2023
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Q: My daughter is on her cellphone a lot. How do I talk to her about sexting and other privacy concerns?
Sep 19, 2022
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A new study led by researchers in the LSU Superfund Research Program demonstrates that children who are exposed to a certain type of environmental air pollution are more likely to contract community acquired pneumonia, or ...
Oct 25, 2021
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The functional genomics field, which looks at the activities of the genome and levels of gene expression rather than particular gene mutations, generally relies on aggregating information from many samples for its statistical ...
Nov 12, 2020
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Several countries have effectively limited the spread of COVID-19 by using digital technology in unprecedented ways, implementing core public health techniques such as case detection, contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine ...
May 27, 2020
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A study published in Technology and Health Care shows that four leading brands of e-cars do not trigger electromagnetic interference (EMI) with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED). CIEDs like pacemakers and defibrillators ...
Apr 7, 2020
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