Medicaid Expansion Linked to Increase in Diabetes Rx Fills
FRIDAY, Aug. 24, 2018 — Expansions in Medicaid eligibility are associated with an increase in Medicaid diabetes prescriptions filled, according
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Friends who are former smokers are key to helping people with serious mental illness quit
People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared to the general
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Children take longer to learn two languages at once compared to just one—don’t fret
Worldwide immigration patterns are increasing the number of children who grow up exposed to two languages, a circumstance that provides
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Unexplained illness in Tanzania puts pathogen discovery to the test
When patients presented with unexplained fever at Mwananyamala Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, scientists compared two genetic sequencing methods
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Researchers demonstrate safe, non-invasive way to open blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s patients
In the first peer-reviewed published report of its kind, University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated that focused ultrasound can be
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How to create and destroy metastatic cancer cells
One of the most challenging aspects of cancer is its ability to metastasize. Cancer cells can break away from their
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Medical device managers rely on physicians to screen out defects rather than issue recalls
Results of a new behavioral study into what influences the decision to recall a defective product found that medical device
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Patient Education Urged to Prevent Opioid OD After Sobriety
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 — The American Medical Association (AMA) encourages patient education to raise awareness of the risks associated
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Policing protein restrains genes to enable healthy development
Melbourne scientists have shown for the first time how a protein called SMCHD1 helps to police healthy development in the
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New information on the brain areas linked to tactile sense and metacognitive ability
According to the results of a new doctoral thesis by Juha Gogulski, magnetic stimulation of prefrontal cortex affected subjects’ performance
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