Patients and Clinicians Help Design a Simpler Way to Monitor Blood Pressure at Home
Researchers used human-centered design with patients and clinicians at six community health centers to co-design low-cost strategies for adopting home ...
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Health Equity Must Lead the Rebuilding of Global Health, Researchers Argue
A new PLOS Global Public Health essay argues that rebuilding global health around equity, mutual aid, and redistributed power is ...
Who Gets Seen in Rural Australia? New Study Maps the Real Barriers to Care
A survey of over 2,600 rural Victorian households finds that reported barriers like cost and distance rarely stopped medical care, ...
People With Disabilities Face Emergency Cancer Diagnoses and Poorer Survival in Italy
A population-based study of digestive system cancers in Northern Italy finds that people with disabilities are far more likely to ...
Schools Could Fix the Oral Health Crisis, but a Landmark Review Shows We Are Barely Trying
A sweeping scoping review of four decades of research finds that oral health remains a neglected add-on in primary school ...
Massive NIH Database Study Probes How Lifestyle, Diet and Treatment Shape Rosacea
A Northwestern University team has mined the NIH All of Us database to examine how lifestyle, diet and treatment patterns ...
Half of Insulin Users in US Safety-Net Clinics Have Dangerous Blood Sugar, Study Finds
A cross-sectional study of 16,267 insulin-requiring adults across 40 federally qualified health centers in 17 states found that over half ...
High Test Scores, Poor Bedside Performance: The Hidden Flaw in Medical AI
A new PLOS Digital Health opinion argues that tens of thousands of authorised AI diagnostic tools rest on benchmark accuracy ...
Virtual Family Rounds in the NICU Show Real Benefits a Clinical Trial Alone Missed
A mixed methods implementation evaluation of a randomized trial found that virtual family-centered rounds in the neonatal intensive care unit ...
Health Is Shaped by Where We Live, but Scientists Still Can’t Agree What Space Actually Does
A systematic review of 59 publications finds that only three define spatial determinants of health, exposing a conceptual vacuum in ...
Bangladesh’s Childbirth Boom in Clinics Hides a Growing Readiness Gap
A new study linking household and facility surveys finds that Bangladesh's surge in facility-based childbirth, from 37 percent in 2014 ...
When Patients Can’t Pay, Surgeons Steer Away From Expensive Robots, Study Finds
A national discrete choice experiment of 211 Chinese urologists found that surgeons' stated preferences for robot-assisted versus laparoscopic prostatectomy shifted ...
Wealth and Geography Still Decide Who Gets Clean Water and Toilets Across 30 African Nations
A landmark analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data from 465,208 households in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries finds that while ...
Patients and Staff Co-Design Four Tools to Make Emergency Departments Fairer for Ethnic Minorities
A five-workshop Experience-Based Co-Design study in Australia produced four interventions, including a bilingual pain scale and waiting room display, to ...
How Much Navigator Contact Does It Take? New Analysis Probes Dose and Equity in Addiction Care
A new letter in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that substance use navigator programs need dose-response analysis and ...
Global cardiac rehabilitation stalls as cardiovascular disease keeps climbing
A global audit finds cardiac rehabilitation program availability has stagnated over the past decade even as cardiovascular disease rises and ...
AI Predicts Missed Pediatric Appointments, But Social Barriers Point to Real Fixes
A Houston study of nearly 8,000 pediatric appointments found that while social risk data did not improve AI no-show prediction, ...
Disability in Bangladesh: Landmark Survey of 155,000 People Maps a Hidden National Burden
A new analysis of 155,025 people from Bangladesh's 2021 National Survey on Persons with Disabilities finds a 2.79 percent national ...
Ghanaian Nurses Back Sign Language but Few Use It at the Bedside
A study of 140 nurses and midwives at Kumasi South Hospital found that while over 96 percent consider sign language ...
Canada’s Closing Window: Why Global Health Equity Demands Action Now
Canadian global health experts warn that a CAD 2.7 billion aid cut and a widening global polycrisis are closing the ...
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