Leading emplyoers are taking a more targeted approach.
Journal of Perinatology - Developing a resiliency model for survival without major morbidity in preterm infants
The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse announced a 5-year program to help families and children affected by opioids.
Patient data is complex, confidential, and often unstructured. Incorporating this information into the healthcare delivery process is a challenge that must be met in order to realize the opportunity to improve patient careSEATTLE, Oct. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A recent study report released by D…
### What you need to know Case —A 47 year old woman who takes metformin and amlodipine for type 2 diabetes and hypertension visits her GP to discuss her HbA1C levels, which have been steadily increasing. She is a single mother with two children at school and works full time in an office. They discu…
Paul Tunnah - pharmaphorum’s very own founder and chief content officer and managing director UK at Healthware Group - discussed healthcare’s digital transformation
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month: DHEC Urges Expectant Parents to Monitor Baby Health by Using ‘Count the Kicks’ SCDHEC
Background Adolescent pregnancy increases the risk of disability and death due to unsafe abortion, prolonged labour and delivery, and complications after birth. Availability of accurate data is important to guide decision-making related to adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH). This study ana…
Background To prevent child deaths from severe malaria, early parenteral treatment is essential. Yet, in remote rural areas, accessing facilities offering parenteral antimalarials may be difficult. A randomised controlled trial found pre-referral treatment with rectal artesunate (RAS) to reduce deat…
Background Instruments to critically appraise randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are based on evidence from meta-epidemiological studies. We aim to conduct a meta-epidemiological study on the average bias associated with reported methodological trial characteristics such as random sequence generati…
Scientific Reports - A stacking ensemble machine learning model to predict alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease clinical outcomes based on UK Biobank data
Physician assistant (PA) programs need to actively engage Black/African American students to help address issues of systemic racism, according to a new study.
Offering a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) led to a 6.6% reduction in the probability of using substance use disorder services and a shift in spending from the plan to the enrollee.
Molecular Psychiatry - The relationship of adverse childhood experiences, hair cortisol, C-reactive protein, and polygenic susceptibility with older adults’ psychological distress during the...
The 22-year-old man fatally shot by officers after refusing their commands to drop a knife had a history of mental illness and run-ins with police.
Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in South Sudan about Health and HIV/Aids, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from UNFPA; closing on 14 Oct 2022
Effective facilitators in primary care settings helped practices to think more critically and motivated them to support change, resulting in significant improvements in preventive CVD care, a recent study found. “Facilitators have been particularly used in primary care settings to help practic…
By Wendy Bailey, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Mental Health The first full week of October each year is Mental Illness Awareness Week. This year’s theme, “What I Wish I Had Known,” explores the power of lived experience. As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. For someone who’s expe…
Gov. Tony Evers held a rally at the Capitol after Republicans gaveled in and out of a special session to let voters amend an 1849 abortion ban
Immune checkpoint inhibitors had a favorable impact on patient-reported quality-of-life compared with other standard therapies across a variety of advanced solid tumor types, data from a meta-analysis showed.The research — published in JAMA Network Open — also revealed immune checkpoint…