On Monday, October 15, UC San Diego Health will open a new comprehensive health center located at 16950 Via Tazon in Rancho Bernardo. Described as a “clinic of the future,” the new 57,000 square foot facility will offer patients increased access to a team of top doctors and nurses, and an array of convenient services, such as urgent care and advanced imaging, including a pharmacy and optical boutique.
The Gates Foundation has chosen Ross Boyce, M.D., M.Sc., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to explore access to childhood vaccines in Uganda.
A culturally tailored program used when discharging stroke patients from the hospital helped to lower blood pressure among Hispanic individuals one year later, finds a new study led by researchers at NYU College of Global Public Health.
Scientists using a powerful new technology that sequences RNA in 20,000 individual cell nuclei have uncovered new insights into biological events in heart disease. In animal hearts, the researchers identified an array of cell types and investigated the “transcriptional landscape” in rich detail.
A Rutgers University–New Brunswick-led team of researchers is calling for the creation of a global microbiota vault to protect the long-term health of humanity. Such a Noah’s Ark of beneficial germs would be gathered from human populations whose microbiomes are uncompromised by antibiotics, processed diets and other ill effects of modern society, which have contributed to a massive loss of microbial diversity and an accompanying rise in health problems. The human microbiome includes the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in and on our bodies, contributing to our health in a myriad of ways.
Antar Jutla, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at West Virginia University, will partner with researchers at the University of Maryland, led by Professor of Microbiology Anwar Huq, to look at ways in which the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events are likely to affect the ecology of pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the Chesapeake Bay, which is already experiencing twice the global average rate of sea-level rise.
The National Institutes of Health grant supports a collaboration between Temple University's dentistry and psychology researchers
CHICAGO - “Cigarette” might appear in the term “e-cigarette” but that is as far as their similarities extend, reports a new Northwestern Medicine report published Friday, Sept. 28, in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Assuming e-cigarettes are equal to cigarettes could lead to misguided research and policy initiatives, the paper says.
The new study shows a growing gap between the rates paid by public and private insurers and a growing gap between the rates paid by the different types of commercial insurers for hospital services between 2010 and 2016.
Maryland’s Health Enterprise Zones, state-funded initiatives designed to improve health care outcomes and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations in underserved communities, were associated with large reductions in inpatient stays, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In October, Garrett Moran, Ph.D., will join RNI as the associate director of services and policy innovation.
Emergency room visits for yoga injuries have increased 70% in the past five years for over 36 million Americans who practice yoga. To make yoga safer for everyone and to prevent yoga-related injuries, Loren Fishman, MD, has launched YIP—Yoga Injury Prevention (YIP.Guru), a searchable interactive web site.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and its Exercise Is Medicine Global Health Initiative (EIM) applaud today’s United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs).
In an exclusive Q&A with Global Health NOW conducted via email, Michael R. Bloomberg shares his advice to national leaders at today’s UN high-level meeting, examples of best-buy interventions against NCDs, the value of solid data in allocating resources, and the under-appreciated power of cities to improve global health.
Persistent and significant health disparities related to sexual health, including a higher teen birth rate and HIV prevalence, exist among Puerto Rican adolescents compared to other racial and ethnic adolescents. The Internet is a major platform for the dissemination of health information and has the potential to decrease health disparities and provide quality, culturally sensitive health information to disadvantaged populations.
Severe weather events, such as summer hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter snow storms often result in widespread and prolonged power outages, interrupting essential household functions, including home heating. In such a scenario, people may use generators and risk carbon monoxide poisoning.
روتشستر، مينيسوتا - تلبيةً للطلب المتزايد للمرضى، تقوم Mayo Clinic حاليًا بإجراء توسعات في مراكزها الطبية في كلٍ من روتشستر وجاكسونفيل وفلوريدا وفينيكس. هذا الاستثمار الذي تبلغ قيمته حوالي مليار دولار أمريكي سيمكنMayo من مساعدة المزيد من المرضى الذين يُعانون من حالات خطيرة ومعقدة ونادرة، وسيستمر في استيعاب الأبحاث والتعليم والتقنيات التي تعمل على تحسين العلاج وإنقاذ حياة المرضى.
Para suprir a demanda crescente de pacientes, a Mayo Clinic vai ampliar seus centros médicos especializados em Rochester, Jacksonville, Flórida e Phoenix. O investimento de quase US$ 1 bilhão permitirá que mais pacientes com doenças graves, complexas e raras sejam atendidos pela Mayo Clinic, além de incentivar ainda mais pesquisas, educação e tecnologias que melhoram e salvam vidas.
为了满足不断增长的患者需求，Mayo Clinic正在罗切斯特，佛罗里达的杰克逊维尔，和凤凰城扩建其目的地医疗中心。 近10亿美元的投资将使Mayo能够帮助更多患有严重，复杂和罕见疾病的患者，并创造条件来继续进行研究，教育和技术进步，以挽救生命，改善生活。
A fin de satisfacer la creciente demanda, Mayo Clinic amplía el destino médico de referencia a sus centros en Rochester (Minnesota), Jacksonville (Florida) y Phoenix (Arizona).
A comparison of two of the most common combination therapies for locally advanced prostate cancer show the more aggressive option is linked with a higher rate of survival.
Across the Americas, there continue to be wide gaps in health and longevity between rich and poor, educated and lesser educated, and people at high or low risk of being the targets of violence. To address these gaps, the Health Equity Network of the Americas has been launched to coincide with the release of recommendations from the Pan American Health Organization Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas.
A research team at Wayne State University recently received a four-year, $1.57 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its project, “Water and Health Infrastructure Resilience and Learning.” The award is part of a multi-institutional $2 million collaborative project funded under NSF’s Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes program.
The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science a companion book to the Ken Burns’ documentary by the same name is now available.
Clinical trials that support FDA approvals of new drugs have a median cost of $19 million, according to a new study by a team including researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The international summit will convene leaders in reproductive biology, precision medicine, public health and global health advocacy. The experts will share groundbreaking research and will culminate with crowdsourcing ideas on how to move women’s health to the forefront of medical research.
Death rates from drug overdoses in the U.S. have been on an exponential growth curve that began at least 15 years before the mid-1990s surge in opioid prescribing, suggesting that overdose death rates may continue along this same historical growth trajectory for years to come.
Nigerian youth are at the epicenter of an expanding HIV crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV testing is an important early entry point to accessing preventive education, care and treatment. Yet fewer than one in five Nigerian youth have been tested. A Saint Louis University study seeks to change this by developing and implementing Innovative Tools to Expand HIV Self-Testing (I-TEST) for at-risk youth ages 14-24.
Increases in federal transfers, money that the federal government sends to states to improve the well-being of citizens, are strongly associated with a decrease in infant mortality rates, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.“Holding all other variables constant, a $200 increase in the amount of federal transfers per capita would save one child’s life for every 10,000 live births,” said Michael McLaughlin, a doctoral student at the Brown School and lead author of the study, “The Impact of Federal Transfers Upon U.
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) joins the World Health Organization in calling for robust global political commitments, including funding, to halt the TB pandemic, following the release of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2018 today. This important report describes in detail the global morbidity and mortality burden of TB and provides critical context for the first-ever United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis on Sept 26, 2018.
A new $18 million grant to Penn Medicine researchers will allow them to take aim at the effects of tobacco marketing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have renewed their commitment to the Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) program and awarded a second cohort (TCORS 2.0) of centers.
Healthy red blood cells are round, but for those with sickle cell disease, the red blood cells become sticky and hard because of an abnormal amount of protein in the blood. The red blood cells form the shape of a sickle, or crescent.
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced the publication of a series of articles that tackle the challenges associated with assessing the value of next-generation sequencing technologies in clinical care.
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced today the publication of a study providing detailed information on factors determining the adoption of new technologies from clinicians’ points of view.
A new study from the University of Iowa finds that type 2 diabetes is overwhelmingly the most common type of diabetes diagnosed in American adults who have the disease. The study found that among Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes, 91.2 percent have type 2 and 5.6 percent have type 1.
UT Southwestern researchers today report the first use of CRISPR genome-wide screening to identify a gene that helps cells resist flavivirus infection.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article by University of Illinois at Chicago epidemiologist S. Jay Olshansky on the need for researchers and clinicians to focus less on prolonging lifespan and more on prolonging "healthspan."
The same mutation that gives TB bacteria resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin also elicits a different – and potentially weaker – immune response.
Taking a low-dose aspirin daily does not prolong healthy living in older adults, according to findings from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial published online Sept. 16 in three papers in The New England Journal of Medicine.
New research shows that the body’s own microbes are effective in maintaining immune cells and killing certain oral infections.
Infectious disease experts at Rutgers University explain this year’s flu season and how you can stay healthy
We stand by the science underlying our study which found there were an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Each day in the United States, 123 people take their own lives. For each of those deaths, at least 25 more people attempt suicide. The statistics from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention support Dr. Ahmad Hameed’s opinion that suicide has become a public health crisis.
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act does not appear to reduce disparities in use of regionalized surgical care among vulnerable persons.
To protect the public from harmful products, legal action can be used against industries, one example of which—a settlement with the tobacco industry—offers useful lessons for confronting several of today’s public health epidemics.
Two new studies by scientists at Scripps Research are bringing Ebola virus’s weaknesses into the spotlight, showing for the first time exactly how human and mouse antibodies can bind to the virus and stop infection—not only for Ebola virus, but for other closely related pathogens as well.
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