June 23, 2017
(BBC) – The idea of palliative or end-of-life care, to support people in the last months or years of their life, was well established in other countries. But in Mongolia, home of the conqueror Genghis Khan, where nomads have lived … Read More
June 23, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – Nagel is among a new breed of nurses devoted to caring for patients with sepsis, a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body’s attempt to fight an infection causes widespread inflammation. She has a clear mission: … Read More
June 21, 2017
(Wired) – Doctors still don’t fully understand how depression works, which makes studying and developing new treatments all the more challenging. “We don’t know how any of these meds work on the brain,” says Mandel. “We know about as much … Read More
June 21, 2017
(CNN) – The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of scientific evidence confirming a link. The EU’s highest court said that … Read More
June 21, 2017
(STAT News) – It has been 61 years since the discovery of the mutation responsible for sickle cell, which affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., and 30 years since scientists found a compensatory mutation — one that keeps people from developing sickle … Read More
June 20, 2017
(Undark Magazine) – By its very nature, the biobank juxtaposes those who collect with those who are collected. Those who collect are most often scientists — those imbued with authority and the auspices of research — and they are often … Read More
June 20, 2017
(ProPublica) – You can walk into your local drugstore and buy a month’s supply of Aleve and Nexium for about $40. For Vimovo, the pharmacy billed my insurance company $3,252. This doesn’t mean the drug company ultimately gets paid that … Read More
June 20, 2017
(Managed Care Magazine) – The federal government says that hospitals and other organizations that process or store patient health care information must report cyber breaches to HHS. But the rules are murky, and some of the worst cyberattacks have not … Read More
June 20, 2017
(The Conversation) – Physicians accept that cystic fibrosis, for example, is much more common in people with Northern European ancestry and that sickle cell disease occurs dramatically more often in people with African origins. These commonly accepted racial and ethnic … Read More
June 16, 2017
(STAT News) – My work focuses on cancer screening (which means checking seemingly healthy people for signs of hidden cancer) and its disturbing side effect: cancer overdiagnosis. It turns out that for some cancers — particularly breast cancer, prostate cancer, … Read More
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