Disparities Exist in Patient Selection for ECMO, Study Finds
April 6th 2023A study including data from more than 2 million patients highlights gender, health insurance, and income disparities in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) while hospitalized for severe respiratory illness.
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Sublobar Resection Produces Similar Outcomes to Lobectomy in Early NSCLC
April 5th 2023Patients who underwent sublobar resection and those who underwent more invasive lobectomy for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) showed similar overall and disease-free survival outcomes in a recent study.
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Johnson & Johnson designated over $8.9 billion to settle talcum powder lawsuits; a new report from the World Health Organization says that 1 in 6 adults globally are affected by infertility; a new study looks beyond the body mass index of pregnant mothers to identify risk factors for their children being obese.
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Study Explores Mortality Rates and Risk Factors in Patients Hospitalized for RSV
April 5th 2023A recent study found the mortality rate for patients hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to be 6.6%, with approximately 25% of hospitalized patients requiring admission to the intensive care unit.
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Dr Paul Alexander Discusses Strategies for Health Systems to Identify Disparities
April 4th 2023Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH, executive vice president and chief health equity and transformation officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses key strategies for health systems working to identify and address health disparities.
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Rates for reimbursement cuts will be lower than expected within Medicare Advantage plans; financial safety nets, in the form of Social Security and Medicare, are likely to be unable pay full benefits; CDC teams experience symptoms similar to East Palestine, Ohio, residents following train derailment
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Dr Olalekan Ajayi: AI Models Are Only as Good as Their Data
April 2nd 2023In this interview from the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) 2023 Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit, Olalekan Ajayi, PharmD, MBA, ACCC president, addresses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care equity and why data integrity is just as important as the models used with the data.
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Dr Jessica Allegretti Addresses Rebyota Utilization, Access Considerations for Recurrent CDI
April 2nd 2023Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH, medical director of the Crohn's and Colitis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, speaks on current indications for Rebyota (fecal microbiota, live-jslm) in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), as well as coverage and access-related implications for the drug.
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A Balancing Challenge: Social Relationships in the Life of Adolescents With Narcolepsy
April 2nd 2023Anne Marie Morse, DO, a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Geisinger Medical Center, talked about the challenges that adolescents with narcolepsy face in their social relationships.
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Dr David Eagle: Health Equity Involves More Than Medical Care
April 2nd 2023Close to 80% of what influences how long someone is going to live is where and how they live, and we need to pay more attention to that or we’re not paying attention to everything that affects their lives, explained David A. Eagle, MD, of New York Cancer & Blood Specialists.
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