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Released: 14-Jan-2020 6:30 AM EST
ISPOR’s Value in Health Regional Issues Names New Editor-in-Chief
ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research

ISPOR—the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today that Manuel Antonio Espinoza, MD, MSc, PhD has been named editor-in-chief of Value in Health Regional Issues, the official regional journal of the Society.

8-Jan-2020 10:35 AM EST
Flame Retardants and Pesticides Overtake Heavy Metals as Biggest Contributors to IQ Loss
NYU Langone Health

Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the decline in the United States, likely due to decades of restrictions on the use of heavy metals, a new study finds.

8-Jan-2020 9:00 PM EST
U.S. protections for constitutional rights falling behind global peers
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

New research from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (WORLD) shows that the United States is falling behind its global peers when it comes to guarantees for key constitutional rights. Researchers identified key gaps in the U.S. including guarantees of the right to health, gender equality, and rights for persons with disabilities.

     
9-Jan-2020 1:10 PM EST
Elevated Leukemia Incidence Is Found in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers
Mount Sinai Health System

Responders who worked at the World Trade Center site after the attacks on September 11, 2001, have an increased overall cancer incidence compared to the general population, particularly in thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and, for the first time ever reported, leukemia, according to a Mount Sinai study published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum in January.

Released: 13-Jan-2020 5:30 PM EST
Everything You Need to Know About the Flu
Beth Israel Lahey Health

Sharon Wright,MD, MPH, BIDMC’s Senior Medical Director of Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center shares everything you need to know about the flu.

9-Jan-2020 10:25 AM EST
Study Identifies Genetic Anomaly Associated with Poor Response to Common Asthma Treatment
Cleveland Clinic

A new Cleveland Clinic study has uncovered a genetic anomaly associated with poor response to a common asthma treatment. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that asthmatic patients with the gene variant are less likely to respond to glucocorticoids and often develop severe asthma.

Released: 13-Jan-2020 12:40 PM EST
Preventing the “Silent Thief of Sight”
Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Doctors Share Tips for Early Detection during Glaucoma Awareness Month

9-Jan-2020 5:05 PM EST
Drinking among sport-playing college students is strongly influenced by peer perceptions
Research Society on Alcoholism

Alcohol misuse among college students remains a major public health concern. Students’ perceptions of how much their peers are drinking, and of peers’ attitudes to alcohol, are known to be a key influence on their own alcohol use. Two distinct types of social norms that can shape students’ drinking are recognized – ‘injunctive’ norms, namely perceptions of peers’ attitudes about how much a college student should drink, and ‘descriptive’ norms, which are perceptions of how much their peers do drink.

     
Released: 10-Jan-2020 1:25 PM EST
Cornell develops educational toolkit for testing e-cigarettes
Cornell University

To complement the wide range of information on the potential dangers of vaping, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a new learning module for high school classrooms that encourages students to directly test the effects of e-cigarette vapor on living cells.

   
Released: 10-Jan-2020 10:05 AM EST
Online Educational Videos Boost Cancer Knowledge
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Education videos distributed on social media can reduce barriers related to health literacy and improve health in underserved populations, according to Rutgers researchers

Released: 10-Jan-2020 6:05 AM EST
New study shows dominance of local air pollution sources in Delhi
University of Surrey

The University of Surrey has revealed results from a new, comprehensive study that suggests that activities such as construction and vehicle traffic contribute significantly to the Delhi National Capital Region's high concentrations of harmful air pollutants and gases.

   
8-Jan-2020 2:35 PM EST
Lonely in a Crowd: Overcoming Loneliness with Acceptance and Wisdom
UC San Diego Health

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found the main characteristics of loneliness in a senior housing community and the strategies residents use to overcome it.

Released: 9-Jan-2020 5:05 PM EST
January Is Thyroid Awareness Month
Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Doctors Offer Unique Procedures for Thyroid Nodules and Stress Importance of Early Detection

8-Jan-2020 1:10 PM EST
Break Point
Harvard Medical School

At a glance: Experiments in worms reveal the molecular damage caused by DEHP, a chemical commonly used to make plastics flexible DEHP interferes with proper cell division during egg formation, leads to excessive DNA breakage, alters chromosome appearance Abnormalities help explain known link between DEHP and human birth defects, male infertility If replicated in further research, the insights can help inform regulatory changes, consumer choice b

Released: 9-Jan-2020 11:00 AM EST
Mesothelioma Linked to Asbestos in Talcum Powder
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Thirty-three cases of the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma draw attention to talcum powder as a non-occupational source of exposure to asbestos, according to a study in the January Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Released: 9-Jan-2020 10:05 AM EST
New research identifies obstacles to early detection of skin cancer in rural western states
Texas State University

Residents of rural, sparsely-populated "frontier counties" in the Western U.S. face higher incidents of skin cancer and related mortality rates.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 7:05 PM EST
Tip Sheet: Mesh loaded with T cells shrinks tumors; second dose of CAR-T cells shows potential; and gene-edited cells stay safe as immunotherapy attacks cancer
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Below are summaries of recent Fred Hutch research findings with links for additional background and media contacts.

     
Released: 8-Jan-2020 2:00 PM EST
Team of engineering researchers to help improve Pennsylvania's foundries
Penn State College of Engineering

A team of Penn State engineering faculty and students is working with small-to-medium-sized foundries across Pennsylvania to aid in the transition away from using harmful silica sands in the metal casting process and to reduce costs through 3D printing.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 12:55 PM EST
New Study Reveals the Origin of Complex Malaria Infections
Texas Biomedical Research Institute

– New technology employing single cell genome sequencing of the parasite that causes malaria has yielded some surprising results and helps pave the way for possible new intervention strategies for this deadly infectious disease, according to Texas Biomedical Research Institute Assistant Professor Ian Cheeseman, Ph.D.

   
Released: 8-Jan-2020 12:40 PM EST
Many in LA jails could be diverted into mental health treatment
RAND Corporation

More than 3,300 people in the mental health population of the Los Angeles County jail are appropriate candidates for diversion into programs where they would receive community-based clinical services rather than incarceration, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 8:45 AM EST
Researchers Surprised by High Levels of Alcohol Consumption among Cancer Survivors
National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)

New research JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, using data from NHIS to examine self-reported drinking habits among people reporting a cancer diagnosis, finds 56.5% were current drinkers, 34.9% exceeded moderate drinking levels, and 21% engaged in binge drinking.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 6:00 AM EST
Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD, Begins Terms as 2020 President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

Anne L Coleman, M.D., Ph.D., has begun her one-year term as the 124th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

Released: 7-Jan-2020 4:30 PM EST
Genetic Differences Help Distinguish Type 1 Diabetes in Children from “Type 1.5” Diabetes in Adults
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

A multi-center team of researchers led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has discovered a genetic signature that could help distinguish an adult-onset form of diabetes sharing many type 1 diabetes (T1D) characteristics from pediatric-onset T1D, opening the door to potentially more straightforward diagnostic tests for the adult condition and improving responses by ensuring patients receive the most appropriate treatment.

Released: 7-Jan-2020 1:00 PM EST
Ratings system may penalize hospitals serving vulnerable communities
University of Chicago Medical Center

Analysis of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare rating system shows that hospitals serving vulnerable communities may be judged on social factors outside of their control.

Released: 7-Jan-2020 12:50 PM EST
Natural Extract to Counter Nephrotoxicity Induced by Mycotoxin OTA
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

Today a team of researchers from the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production of the Federico II University of Naples, in collaboration with the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Siena, Itay, has discovered the effectiveness of a new extract, of natural origin, able to prevent nephrotoxicity induced by the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A (OTA), and has published this research in the international Journal of Cellular Physiology.

   
Released: 7-Jan-2020 10:50 AM EST
Research shows nasal spray antidote is easiest to give for opioid overdose
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Of three possible ways for people to deliver the life-saving antidote naloxone to a person experiencing an opioid overdose, the use of a nasal spray was the quickest and easiest according to research conducted by William Eggleston, clinical assistant professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and colleagues at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Released: 7-Jan-2020 8:30 AM EST
Analysis of FDA Documents Reveals Inadequate Monitoring of Key Program to Promote Safe Opioid Use
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A risk-management program set up in 2012 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to curb improper prescribing of extended-release and long-acting opioids may not have been effective because of shortcomings in the program’s design and execution, according to a paper from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Released: 7-Jan-2020 8:00 AM EST
Evidence Linking ‘Vaping’ to Increased Odds Of Asthma And COPD
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Using data from a large federal government telephone survey of adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report evidence that inhaling heated tobacco vapor through e-cigarettes was linked to increased odds of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), conditions long demonstrated to be caused by smoking traditional, combustible cigarettes. The data, the researchers say, also suggest that odds of developing COPD may be as much as six times greater when people report they both vape and smoke tobacco regularly, compared with those who don’t use any tobacco products at all.

6-Jan-2020 12:05 PM EST
Study Links Medicaid Expansion and Recipients’ Health Status
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, adults experienced lower rates of decline in both physical and mental health, according to research published this month in the journal Health Affairs.

Released: 6-Jan-2020 3:05 PM EST
Cannabis Edibles Present Novel Health Risks
Canadian Medical Association (CMA)

With the recent legalization of cannabis edibles in Canada, physicians and the public must be aware of the novel risks of cannabis edibles

Released: 6-Jan-2020 1:10 PM EST
Forensic Chemist Detects Marijuana-Use Based on Sweat Test
University at Albany, State University of New York

Jan Halámek is proving that our own perspiration not only gives away how drunk we are – but if we are high, too.

   
Released: 6-Jan-2020 12:00 PM EST
A New Non-surgical Option Helps You Lose Weight and Keep It Off
Beth Israel Lahey Health

Jonah Cohen, MD, a gastroenterologist and Director of the Center for Bariatric Endoscopy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses a new non-surgical option that helped one of his patients, Laurie, lose and keep her weight off.

Released: 6-Jan-2020 10:20 AM EST
Novel Research That Could Advance Testing, Treatment for Concussions Showcased in the January Issue of AACC’s The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

In a special brain health collection, AACC’s The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine highlights the innovative clinical tests that laboratory medicine experts are developing to improve care for concussions.

Released: 6-Jan-2020 10:10 AM EST
Time to Hibernate? 34% of U.S. Adults Say They Sleep More During Winter
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

New survey results from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) show that more than one-third of Americans sleep more during the winter. The AASM provides tips and insights for using the winter to improve sleep habits year-round.

Released: 6-Jan-2020 9:00 AM EST
Processed Foods Highly Correlated with Obesity Epidemic in the U.S.
George Washington University

A review article from the George Washington University highlights the correlation between highly processed foods and increased prevalence of obesity in the United States.

Released: 6-Jan-2020 8:00 AM EST
2017 San Diego Wildfire Increased Pediatric ER Visits for Breathing Problems
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

A small wildfire in San Diego County in 2017 resulted in a big uptick in children visiting the emergency room for breathing problems, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Released: 3-Jan-2020 2:25 PM EST
FDA Makes Progress, but Needs to Go Further on E-cigarettes
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

While the American Thoracic Society appreciates that the FDA took action on certain flavored cartridge-based vaping products, it is disappointed that the Administration chose to not follow through on its September 2019 promise to clear the market of all flavored electronic nicotine delivery projects.

Released: 3-Jan-2020 2:10 PM EST
Costo elevado de la insulina conlleva implicaciones de vida o muerte para pacientes diabéticos
Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, Minnesota: El costo de los tipos de insulina más frecuentemente usados es en Estados Unidos 10 veces mayor que en el resto de países del mundo desarrollado, expone un comentario en Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Este costo prohibitivo es la causa para que algunos pacientes estadounidenses con diabetes tipo 1 racionen la cantidad de insulina que se administran y, consecuentemente, afronten implicaciones de vida o muerte.

Released: 3-Jan-2020 1:50 PM EST
STS Criticizes Dialed-Back E-Cig Flavor Ban
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) is deeply disappointed that a proposed rule authorizing a nationwide ban of flavored electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) did not include menthol.

Released: 2-Jan-2020 3:10 PM EST
High Cost of Insulin Has Life-or-Death Implications for Diabetic Patients
Mayo Clinic

The most commonly used forms of insulin cost 10 times more in the U.S. than in any other developed country, according to a commentary in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. This prohibitive cost is causing some U.S. patients with Type 1 diabetes to ration the amount of insulin they use, with life-threatening implications.



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