A small study of college ice hockey players in Canada in which physicians and other independent observers watched games from the stands and evaluated injured players indicates that college hockey players’ concussion rates there may have improved over the past… Read More ›
About 2 months after the initial cases of fungal meningitis were traced back to injections of a contaminated steroid drug from a New England compounding pharmacy, new patients continue to be identified. The latest wave of patients are presenting with… Read More ›
Much attention has been focused recently on whether states will set up health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a December 14 “go” or “no-go” deadline looms. Exchanges are, to be sure, a key element of implementing… Read More ›
Children become more vulnerable to infection with pertussis the more time passes after their last dose of the acellular pertussis vaccine, according to a study published in JAMA today. After a record-breaking epidemic of pertussis in California in 2010, many… Read More ›
Chicago—Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of physical activity in reducing the risk of a variety of health problems, including heart disease and Alzheimer disease. Now, new findings suggest that for at least 1 condition, osteoarthritis of the knee, both… Read More ›
Although the 2012 Presidential election settled many issues related to the health care law, there is one that will linger well into President Obama’s second term: contraception and religious freedom. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employers to provide women… Read More ›
Patients with online access to their medical records used more health care services than did patients without online access, found a study published in JAMA today. Electronic medical records and other new technologies have been proposed as tools to help… Read More ›
Certain occupations with potentially high exposures to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, say researchers whose findings appear today online in Environmental Health. The researchers, using data collected from 2002 to 2008, found… Read More ›
Analysis of 2010 data suggests an estimated 1.0% of adults in the United States have active epilepsy. This percentage has remained stable since prevalence estimates were last calculated in 1994 using the same survey tool. The findings appear in today’s… Read More ›
US primary care physicians are jumping aboard the information technology bandwagon to better manage patient care. But they spend more time handling insurance restrictions and their patients have more problems paying for care than in many other industrialized nations, a… Read More ›
