Medically unnecessary ambulance rides soar after ACA expansion
By 2016, two years into the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 17.6 million previously uninsured people around the ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Reducing overtesting in the emergency department could save millions
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - An emergency department is sometimes the first place a person thinks to go for health care. ...
Scientists developing way to help premature babies breathe easier
Study points to possible cell therapy for bronchopulmonary dysplasiaCredit: Cincinnati Children's Hospital CINCINNATI--Researchers suggest a possible cell-based therapy to stimulate ...
Restricted permit-only access to Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome summit, anticipated to improve hiker safety, did not
New study published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine assesses hiker safety before and after restrictions and found that hiking in ...
Injury more likely due to abuse when child was with male caregiver
Over 1,700 children die from child abuse each year in the U.S., and far more sustain injuries that result in ...
Repeat ER users changed how they used ERs after gaining medicaid coverage
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health insurance coverage, including eligibility for Medicaid, the public insurance program for low-income Americans. ...
Predictors of cognitive recovery following mild to severe traumatic brain injury
Credit: (c) 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 25, 2019--Researchers have shown that higher intelligence and ...
‘M-RISE’ research program aims to prevent brain damage caused by cardiac arrest
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - For the more than 350,000 Americans that experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each ...
Blood test predicts stroke risk in patients with diabetes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Having diabetes is a risk factor for many other health conditions, including stroke. "Every 40 seconds ...
UTHealth program earns accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association
Credit: Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth Congenital heart disease, which used to be considered a death sentence, is now a managed disease for ...
Oral steroids put patients with inflammatory disease at high risk of infection
Oral steroid use in patients with the inflammatory diseases polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis significantly increased the risk of ...
New approaches cut inappropriate antibiotic use by over 30%
(SACRAMENTO) -- A UC Davis study of nine emergency departments and urgent care centers in California and Colorado found educating ...
Gender bias continues in recognition of physicians and nurses
Credit: (c) 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 17, 2019--A new study has shown that patients ...
FDA designates molecular test for concussions as ‘breakthrough device’
BRAINBox Solutions working with Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Carilion Clinic to bring mTBI test to marketCredit: Virginia Tech A portable ...
Poor oral health linked to a 75% increase in liver cancer risk, new study finds
The study, by researchers at Queen's University Belfast, analysed a large cohort of over 469,000 people in the UK, investigated ...
What influences critical care doctors in withdrawing life support for patients with brain injury?
Decisions to withdraw life support treatments in critically ill patients with severe brain injury are complicated, are based on many ...
Bacterial chemical ‘signatures’ a sign of damaged gut microbiome in critical illness
Chemicals produced by healthy bacteria could be used to assess the health of the gut microbiome and help identify critically-ill ...
New diet study using MRI to map internal fat conducted by Ben-Gurion U researchers
Reducing hepatic (liver) fat combined with weight loss decreases obesity health risks BEER-SHEVA, Israel...June 13, 2019 - A research team ...
Using data to decide when to transfer patients by medical helicopter
Patients could someday benefit from nursing study on whether emergency helicopter transfers are always necessary between hospitals CLEVELAND--The increased use ...
Opioid alternative? Taming tetrodotoxin for precise painkilling
Findings in rats suggest that a pufferfish toxin, properly packaged, could offer a safe pain blockCredit: Opioids remain a mainstay ...