The national implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 was associated with gains in health insurance coverage for youth; but some of those gains have reversed during the past three years; according to findings publish this month in Academic Pediatrics from researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Using…
When young adults pass the age limit for paying patient co-payments, or out-of-pocket prices, their medical consultations in primary care decrease by 7%, a study shows. The groups affected most are women and low-income earners. “It’s interesting that, despite relatively low charges, we find a fall in the number of physician visits,” says Naimi Johansson.…
Almost 20% of hospital admissions of young children with acute respiratory infections could be prevented if their houses were free from damp and mold, researchers have found. The research, published in the international medical journal Thorax today, is the largest ever case-control study of the association between housing quality and hospital admissions for young children with acute respiratory…
Long-term nursing home residents with hypertension do not experience significant benefits from more intensive antihypertensive treatment, according to a study published online July 22 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Kenneth S. Boockvar, M.D., from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues examined the number of first-line…
Medicare paid for Betty Gordon’s knee replacement surgery in March; but the 72-year-old former high school teacher need a nursing home stay and care at home to recover. Yet Medicare wouldn’t pay for that. So Gordon is stuck with a $7,000 bill she can’t afford and, as if that were not bad enough, she can’t…
The purpose of the trial, published in, was to assess public interest in health relate research; understand the extent to which people want to be proactively informed about ongoing current medical research studies in the location concerned; also gauge the impact large TV screens mediating such news may have on this interest. The TV monitors…
Hospitalization; Patients who meet an addiction medicine consult team while they’re in the hospital are twice as likely to participate in treatment for substance use disorder after they go home, according to new research. The study, published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, measured one key outcome for patients who participated in a…
A California law that limits the size of bills from out-of-network physicians for care delivered in hospitals appears to be protecting patients’ financial liability, but has shifted bargaining leverage in favor of insurance plans and had potential unintended consequences such as encouraging more consolidation among physician practice groups, according to a new RAND Corporation study.…
Health Care; Experiencing harm in hospital significantly increases the length of stay, length of recovery after discharge and health system costs; which amounted to more than $1 billion in Ontario in fiscal year 2015/16; according to new research in CMAJ. “They were able to estimate, for the first time, the total health system impact of…
Medical mistrust of health care providers, fueled by painful experiences with racism, makes African American men more likely to delay routine screenings and doctor’s appointments, according to a new study in the journal Behavioral Medicine by the Health Disparities Institute (HDI) at UConn Health, with potentially serious implications for their overall health. Routine health visits The…
Any attempt by the Government to address the pensions crisis leading senior doctors to reduce their hours must include proper tax reform if it is to avert this “grave threat” to staff and patients, the BMA says. The BMA’s comments are in response to an article in the Sunday Times by Prime Minister Boris Johnson,…
Physicians; Medical doctors in the United States are twice as likely to experience symptoms of burnout as other workers; which can compromise quality of care and place patients at risk. In a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic researchers suggest a new approach to fighting burnout: external professional coaching. Defined by the World Health…