Jan 12, 2021

FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced income inequality, with a larger decrease in states that expanded Medicaid, according to a study published in the Jan...

Jan 07, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) does not improve migraine frequency more than headache education, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in...

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Health care spending in the United States increased 4.6 percent in 2019, which was a similar rate of growth as that seen in 2018, according to a report publis...

Jan 05, 2021

Opioids and NSAIDs are the most commonly used analgesics for managing pain in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but these therapies come with important risks. “NSAIDs have direct nephrotox...

Dec 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The "true" cumulative incidence of dislocation after primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) may be as high as 3.5 percent, according to a Danish study publishe...

Dec 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A stepped exercise program results in modest improvements for symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, according to a study published online Dec. 29 in the Annals of...

Dec 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- During the COVID-19 pandemic period, there have been inequities in accessing telemedicine, according to a study published online Dec. 29 in JAMA Network Open...

Dec 29, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Privileged White U.S. citizens have better health outcomes than average U.S. citizens for several health outcomes, but health outcomes are not always better t...

Dec 23, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Life expectancy for the U.S. population increased in 2019, while the rate of drug overdose deaths increased from 2018 to 2019, according to two December data...

Dec 22, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Taken every other day, rimegepant demonstrates efficacy for the preventive treatment of migraine, according to a study published online Dec. 15 in The Lancet....

Dec 17, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Schedule II opioids continue to be prescribed to high-risk patients 18 months after publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guid...

Dec 17, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing surgery, therapeutic suggestions played through earphones during general anesthesia can reduce postoperative pain and opioid use, a...

Dec 15, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Depression, but not physician burnout, is associated with suicidal ideation among physicians, while burnout is associated with increased self-reported medical...

Dec 11, 2020

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is associated with mortality, even among individuals without diabetes, according to a study published online Dec. 8 in the Annals o...

Dec 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep-related impairment among physicians is associated with increased burnout, decreased professional fulfillment, and increased self-reported clinically s...

Dec 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a loss of life expectancy (LE) of 4.97 years, according to a study published online Dec. 9 in Arthritis & R...

Dec 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of U.S. adults do not seek health care for fear of a surprise medical bill, according to a survey released by the American Heart Association (AH...

Dec 08, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Globally, 2.41 billion individuals were identified as having conditions that would benefit from rehabilitation in 2019, representing an increase of 63 percent ...

Dec 08, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Female physicians spend more minutes per day in the electronic health record (EHR) than their male counterparts, according to a research letter published onlin...

Dec 06, 2020

FRIDAY, Dec. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Single-position lumbar surgery (SPLS) improves operative efficiency among patients undergoing anterior-posterior lumbar fusion, according to a study published ...