Medically reviewed by Carmen Pope, BPharm. Last updated on July 25, 2024. THURSDAY, July 25, 2024 — The bird flu is now jumping between species of mammals, a step that draws the virus closer to hopping into human beings, a new study warns. Researchers have tracked transmission of avian influenza between dairy cows in herds,…
Medically reviewed by Carmen Pope, BPharm. Last updated on July 25, 2024. By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 25, 2024 — Medicare Advantage plans are touted as a great alternative to traditional Medicare, offering seniors easier access to doctors, hospitals and prescription drugs. But access to a good Medicare Advantage plan relies heavily on…
Medically reviewed by Carmen Pope, BPharm. Last updated on July 25, 2024. By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 25, 2024 — Obese kids infected with dengue are significantly more likely to suffer severe illness requiring hospitalization, a new study warns. A new analysis of nearly 5,000 dengue-infected Sri Lankan children found that weight plays…
Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 25, 2024 — For the first time in two decades, the infant mortality rate in the United States has risen, new government data shows. In a report released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers found that more than 20,500…
Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 25, 2024 — Wildfires raging in several states and Canada are triggering air quality alerts and evacuation orders across the western parts of the United States. Smoke and haze have filled the skies in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and several other western states: As…
This is the title of a new paper I have out today at JMCP with co-authors Shanshan Wang, Jaehong Kim, Slaven Sikirica, and Alexander Sandhu with the subtitle “An economic model measuring the impact of sotagliflozin among patients with heart failure and diabetes“. The abstract is below: BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is among the leading…
Health Services Research has decided that studies using logistic regressions should report marginal effects rather than odds ratios. Why did they make this decision? A paper by Norton et al. (2024) identifies 3 key factors. Intelligibility. Consider the case of examining the impact of whether a hospital is in a…
Dr. Michael H. Stone, a psychiatrist and scholar who sought to define evil and to differentiate its manifestations from the typical behavior of people who are mentally ill, died on Dec. 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was complications of a stroke he had in January, his son David said….
Law enforcement agencies have obtained the prescription records of thousands of Americans from the country’s largest pharmacy chains without a warrant, a congressional inquiry found, raising concerns about how the companies handle patient privacy. Three of the largest pharmacy groups — CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid — do not require their staff members to…
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide on the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, the first major case involving abortion on its docket since it overturned the constitutional right to the procedure more than a year ago. The Biden administration had asked the justices to intervene after a three-judge panel…
