Simple measures of kidney function and damage may be just as good at predicting who is at risk for heart failure and death from heart attack and stroke as traditional tests of cholesterol levels and blood pressure, new research suggests.
Category: HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL
Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer
Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain CancerResearchers used a tetanus booster to enhance the effects of an experimental immunotherapy against glioblastoma, a deadly type of brain cancer.
Interpreting Breast Biopsies
Interpreting Breast BiopsiesPathologists asked to interpret a difficult set of breast biopsy slides accurately made most diagnoses, but the results suggest strategies for future improvement.
How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, Diabetes
How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, DiabetesMice with immune cells unable to use vitamin D developed precursors of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The mechanisms uncovered may lead to novel therapies.
UGA students’ winning national public policy entry addresses homeless women’s hygiene
With an innovative proposal addressing a silent public health problem for homeless women, four students from the University of Georgia won the top prize in the fourth annual Public Policy Challenge National Invitational in Philadelphia earlier this month. read more
Headline: "Exchanges Struggle to Enroll Consumers As Income Increases" It’s Because of the Obamacare Dichotomy
Here is an excerpt from a post on this blog from June 21, 2014: Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Finds Most People Who Bought Health Insurance on the Exchanges Are Happy With It This week the administration reported that 76{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of those who received a subsidy paid less than the full premium for the plans they selected. And, 69{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} are paying less than $100 after the subsidies––46{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} are paying $50
The New York Times: Has Obamacare Enrollment Stalled?
Readers of this blog know that I have made a number of points about Obamacare in recent months: The number of people signing up for Obamacare is well below the level necessary to make the rates stable over the long-term––the longstanding insurance industry standard calls for getting 75{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of an eligible group in order to have enough healthy people in the pool to pay the costs of the sick people. I
Publicly insured Americans ‘have poorer lung transplantation survival’ than UK patients
A new study reveals that publicly insured US patients who undergo lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis have poorer survival than publicly insured UK patients.
Insuring undocumented residents could help solve multiple US health care challenges
UCLA health policy care analysis finds 4 key problem areas for Latinos under Affordable Care ActLatinos are the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, and it’s expected that by 2050…
Breast cancer survey: black and Hispanic women have less say in care
Study reveals racial differences in the level of involvement women have in their breast cancer care, with minorities being less active in the selection of surgeon or hospital.
Doctors show race and social bias in study – but clinical decisions ‘unaffected’
In online psychological tests of automatic responses, clinicians at a hospital showed subconscious race and social class biases, but these did not influence overall care provision.