“MFN reinforces the worst incentives in 340B, shifts costs to patients and employers, and threatens … More
Congressional Republicans are under pressure to find savings to make the math in…
Category: 5. Health
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What The Pitt Gets Right About ER Chaos And How To Get Safer Care
The U.S. could save an estimated $4.4 billion each year by shifting avoidable ER visits to … More
When lives hang in the balance, there’s no script. The Pitt captures the controlled chaos of emergency medicine, with…
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Oscar Health Profits Exceed $275 Million As Obamacare Enrollment Soars
Oscar Health reported a $275 million in first quarter profits as the health insurer’s … More
Oscar Health reported a $275 million first quarter profit…
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A healthy diet in childhood is linked to starting menstrual periods later, regardless of BMI or height
Eating a healthy diet as a child is linked to girls having their first menstrual period at an older age than those who consumed a less healthy diet, according to a new study published today (Wednesday) in Human Reproduction.
The findings remained unaltered by the girls’ body mass index (BMI) or…
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What’s a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another
Your optimal amount of sleep may depend on where you live, new University of British Columbia research has found.
An analysis of sleep data and health outcomes for nearly 5,000 people in 20 countries revealed that the hours of sleep required for good health varies significantly across different…
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Trump Wants More Switches Of Rx-Only Drugs To Over-The-Counter
Over-the-counter medications.(Photo by James Keyser/Getty Images)
President Trump’s recent executive order on pharmaceuticals includes a section on facilitating switches of prescription-only drugs to over-the-counter status. Attempts to address the issue of accelerating the pace of…
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Despite Legalization, Cannabis Poses Risks in Pregnancy
What risks do cannabis have for pregnancy? This is what a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between cannabis use and the first four weeks of a newborn’s life, also known as neonatal…
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Accelerating drug discovery with a single carbon atom
A research team from the University of Oklahoma has pioneered a groundbreaking method that could accelerate drug discovery and reduce pharmaceutical development costs. Their work, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, introduces a safe, sustainable way to insert a single…
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Breakthrough discovery uses gut bacteria and AI to diagnose a chronic pain syndrome
McGill University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Ireland, have developed AI technology that can detect patterns in gut bacteria to identify complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) with remarkable accuracy, potentially transforming how CRPS is diagnosed and treated.
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New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions
A new study led by UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) shows that targeting emotional processing is key to treating and managing chronic pain.
The study is based on a randomised controlled trial led by Professor Sylvia Gustin and Dr Nell Norman-Nott, both from UNSW and NeuRA….