Sep. 3, 2021 — Subscription-based payment models (SBPM), a novel approach in which states contract exclusively with a single manufacturer to supply prescriptions at a reduced price, could increase access to these ...
Sep. 2, 2021 — U.S. jails function as 'infectious disease incubators' for surrounding communities, as high rates of viral transmission cause COVID-19 cases to multiply and 'boomerang' back to ...
Sep. 2, 2021 — A new, automated, artificial intelligence-based algorithm can learn to read patient data from electronic health records. In a side-by-side comparison, scientists showed that their method accurately ...
Sep. 2, 2021 — After years of steady reductions in healthcare-associated infections, significantly higher rates of four out of six routinely tracked infections were observed in U.S. hospitals, according to a new ...
Sep. 1, 2021 — Having a structured environment for children, whether during school days or when stuck in quarantine as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, could benefit children's health, according to new ...
Sep. 1, 2021 — In March 2020, not long after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported locally, health officials in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County issued emergency public health orders intended to ...
Aug. 30, 2021 — Staying home and limiting local travel, supporting access to primary care, and limiting contacts in contagion hubs -- including hospitals, schools, and workplaces -- are strategies that might help ...
Aug. 26, 2021 — A new commentary reinforces the need to engage the public in understanding the importance of menstrual health. This includes sufficient funding and more research to educate young people, their ...
Aug. 25, 2021 — A new study demonstrates how quickly COVID-19 can spread through a household, and provides insight into how and why communities of color have suffered disproportionately from the ...
Aug. 25, 2021 — New research suggests that men and women worry about the impact of COVID-19 in far different ways. For example, men are more likely to be concerned about financial consequences from COVID-19 while ...
Aug. 24, 2021 — Among adolescents ages 10 to 14 in the U.S, the overall rate of drug use remained relatively stable in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, one change was a decreased use of ...
Aug. 20, 2021 — Millions of people across the African continent are at risk of contracting COVID-19 because of a lack of the most basic public health tools to protect themselves -- including the essentials of soap ...
Aug. 20, 2021 — During the COVID-19 pandemic months of March 2020 to September 2020, U.S. alcohol retail store sales increased compared to usual trends while food services and drinking places sales decreased ...
Aug. 16, 2021 — There are a number of simple, practical steps that families can take -- including reducing passive screen time and news consumption, having a structured daily schedule and getting enough sleep -- ...
Aug. 16, 2021 — Researchers say social distancing contributed to a decline in drinking among first-year college students. But the downward trend could change with the return to ...
Aug. 13, 2021 — A new study suggests that crop insurance serves as a disincentive for farmers to adopt climate change mitigation measures on their ...
Aug. 13, 2021 — A new study shows that between 2013 and 2018, as many U.S. states were legalizing recreational marijuana, cancer patients continued to abstain in large ...
Aug. 13, 2021 — A new study exposes the dire need for new clinical risk management tools to help hospital healthcare workers prevent the deaths and intensive care admissions of Black, Asian and minority ethnic ...
Aug. 13, 2021 — More than one in ten COVID-19 patients in 314 UK hospitals caught the infection in hospital during the first pandemic wave, say researchers conducting the world's largest study of severe ...
Aug. 12, 2021 — A new strategy for modeling the spread of COVID-19 incorporates smartphone-captured data on people's movements and shows promise for aiding development of optimal lockdown ...
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