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Postdischarge Contacts Do Not Reduce 30-Day ED Visits, Readmissions
MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2025 – Postdischarge contacts (PDCs) with patients after hospitalization are not associated with reductions in 30-day emergency department use or 30-day readmissions, according to a...
Will We Have Fewer Doctors of Color?
MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2025 – Medical schools have experienced a steep decline in enrollment among Black and Hispanic students since the Supreme Court banned the consideration of race in admissions. The...
Are Young People With Eating Disorders Predisposed to Them?
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – Eating disorders appear to be linked to differences in brain structure among teenagers. Young adults who develop eating disorders appear to have delayed brain maturation as...
It May Be Easier to Quit Smoking With Holistic or Integrated Health Approach
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – It takes a village to help a smoker quit. And a new study published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that smokers had a nearly doubled success rate quitting when...
Men Are 3 Times As Likely to Die from Traumatic Brain Injury Compared to Women
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – Men are more than three times as likely to die from a traumatic brain injury compared to women, a new study says. About 30 brain injury-related deaths occurred for every...
Gout Flares Often Underreported in U.S. Adults With Gout
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – Gout flares are commonly underreported among U.S. adults with gout, according to a study published in the January issue of ACR Open Rheumatology. Jasvinder A. Singh, M.D., M...
Differences Exist in Precision Oncology Drug Eligibility Among Patient Ancestral Groups
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – Ancestry-based differences in frequencies of biomarkers that drive patient selection for treatment with precision oncology drugs currently exist, according to a study...
Dementia Prevalence Projected to Increase From 2020 to 2060
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – The lifetime risk of dementia in a community-based cohort is 42 percent after age 55 years, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in Nature Medicine. Michael Fang,...
Bird Flu Kills 20 Million Chickens in U.S., Driving Egg Prices Sky-High
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – A deadly bird flu outbreak has wreaked havoc on U.S. chicken farms, claiming the lives of over 20 million egg-laying chickens last quarter, marking the worst impact on...
Review Reveals Average Life Expectancy After Dementia Diagnosis
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – Average life expectancy for patients with dementia ranges from 8.9 years after diagnosis at a mean age of 60 years for women to 2.2 years at a mean age of 85 years for men,...
Disparities Seen in Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Mortality
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – There are disparities in traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related mortality, with the highest rates seen for older adults, men, and non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native...
Higher Radon Exposure Linked to Increased Odds of Gestational Diabetes
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – In nulliparous pregnant individuals, higher radon exposure is associated with greater odds of gestational diabetes (GD), according to a study published online Jan. 10 in JAMA...
Access to Green Space May Help Reduce Kids' Screen Time
SATURDAY, Jan. 11, 2025 – Want to help your child cut back on their screen time? Make sure you live near parks and other open spaces where they can frolic outside. New research underlines the...
Patient Care Experience Worse After Private Equity Acquisition of Hospitals
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – After private equity acquisition of U.S. hospitals, global measures of patient care experience worsened, according to a study published online Jan. 9 in the Journal of the...
Long COVID Burden Has Decreased Over Time in Health Care Workers
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – The prevalence and burden of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) has decreased over time in health care workers, according to a study published online Nov. 12 ...