Introduction of flat-rate payments accompanied by an increase in readmission rates
Credit: (Bild: Unsplash | CC0) Seven years after the introduction of flat-rate payments at Swiss hospitals, a major study has ...
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New citizen science project From Diamond Light Source seeks to train AI to identify virus particlesCredit: Diamond Light Source, 2019 ...
Winners of Inaugural Johnson & Johnson Innovation Champions of Science Africa Storytelling Challenge
Program spotlights scientific innovation across African continent February 15, 2019 (Washington, D.C.) - Johnson & Johnson Innovation today announced five ...
TGen Director of Scientific Operations is one of Arizona's Outstanding Women in Business
Dr. Winnie Liang will be honored April 4 by the Phoenix Business JournalCredit: Courtesy of TGen PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Feb. ...
Customized drug interaction alerts address alert fatigue, protect patients
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital For anyone who regularly uses a computer, the experience of clicking through multipage user ...
Mount Sinai research program awarded $12.5 million NIH grant to continue to study the role of hormones in menopause and aging biology
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National ...
Physician-hospital integration does not improve quality of care
HOUSTON -- (Feb. 13, 2019) - In an age of increased integration between physicians and hospitals, regulators should continue to ...
Even as hospitals cut risky antibiotic use in-house, patients often go home with them
Targeting fluoroquinolone prescribing in hospitals is effective, a 48-hospital study shows, but many patients still get discharge prescriptions for themCredit: ...
IncludeHealth and HealthPartners launch first of its kind neuroscience exercise program
Muscle2Mind pilot program promotes exercise for patients with dementiaCredit: IncludeHealth CINCINNATI, OHIO, Feb. 12, 2019-- IncludeHealth, an internationally awarded digital ...
ACC Cardiovascular Summit focuses on innovation and leadership strategies
CV Summit offers attendees novel business strategies to achieve the Quadruple Aim The American College of Cardiology's Cardiovascular Summit will ...
Study finds upsurge in 'active surveillance' for low-risk prostate cancer
Active surveillance nearly tripled in men with low-risk prostate diseaseCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Many men with low-risk prostate cancer who ...
Researchers examine postpartum hospital readmissions for women with psychiatric conditions
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gestational diabetes affects an estimated 2 - 10% of pregnancies ...
Breaking the vicious cycles of age-related diseases
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Biologist Aleksey Belikov from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has proposed that rapid progression ...
Connection between home energy efficiency and respiratory health in low-income homes
New study finds people living in drafty homes in low-income, urban communities are at a higher risk of respiratory health ...
Novel nanoparticle technology to identify healthcare-associated infections receives $1.5 million
Combination of novel nanomaterials with a genomics-based approach will allow for precise identification of pathogens that cause Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs).Credit: ...
67 percent of bankruptcy filers cite illness and medical bills as contributors to financial ruin
Researchers found no evidence that the ACA reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical problems; insurance offered little protection ...
Certara advances global initiative to take model-informed precision dosing (MIPD) into the clinic
Certara has recently published four peer-reviewed MIPD papers; its progress is generating strong interest from industry, health care professionals and ...
Smartphone use risks eye examination misdiagnosis
Research finds that calibration of phone cameras is vital to capture accurate data Clinicians who use smartphones to capture photographs ...
Immunotherapy drug used as 1st-line therapy for Merkel cell carcinoma improved survival
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - A multi-center phase II clinical trial investigating pembrolizumab as a first-line ...
GenesisCare and the University of Oxford establish innovative 10-year cancer research partnership
Credit: GenesisCare UK, 7 February 2019: Today GenesisCare and the University of Oxford's Department of Oncology announce the launch of ...