Paige Twenter In an unprecedented decision, a federal judge in Texas ruled April 7 to suspend the FDA’s decadeslong approval of one of the two abortion pills, effective April 14. The judge partly ruled in favor of four organizations and four physicians who filed suit in November against the agency for approving mifepristone, which is […]
Laura Dyrda (Twitter) – Friday, April 7th, 2023 Hospitals evolved into health systems over the last several years with multiple care sites and expanded focus on health and wellness. Millions of dollars were spent in rebranding and strategy to become “health systems.” Now, the term is becoming obsolete. Health systems are so much more than care providers,
Mar 31, 2023 Kenneth Bender, PharmD, MA Buprenorphine, a partial μ-opioid receptor agonist, is recommended, not only for its customary application in opioid use disorder, but as a safer opioid analgesic when no other treatment modality or non-opioid suffices for a patient with chronic pain, in updated clinical practice guidelines of the Veterans Affairs and US Department
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— A majority of these hospitalizations included a diagnosis of attempted suicide or self-injury by Michael DePeau-Wilson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today March 28, 2023 Pediatric hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses increased significantly from 2009 to 2019, with most cases in 2019 involving attempted suicide or self-injury, a retrospective analysis showed. Among over 200,000 pediatric hospitalizations,
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Michelle Curtin, DO1; Lindsay A. Thompson, MD, MS1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(4):441. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.5930 Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is a type of behavior therapy designed to help caretakers of children deal with emotions and behaviors that feel big. Parenting programs like PCIT are the best treatment available to work on disruptive behaviors, such as not following directions or not cooperating,
News Published: March 31, 2023 | Original story from University of Oslo Read time: 3 minutes The word “brainwashing” usually triggers negative associations. But our brain health for sure depends on it. Scientists at the University of Oslo have recently made new and important discoveries about how and why this happens when we are sleeping.
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Tzipi Gadot and Joseph Azuri https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1049-9848 josephaz@tauex.tau.ac.ilView all authors and affiliations Introduction: Nurses play a key role in managing care and educating people with diabetes in various healthcare systems worldwide, while physicians play this role in others. In addition, some healthcare systems authorize specialist nurses to change patient dose regimens. Therefore, we examined diabetes outcomes in the community by the management
Nearly 30% of all patients who received medical services between 2016 and 2022 did not see a primary care physician, a FAIR Health analysis provided first to Axios shows. Why it matters: Primary care providers are supposed to manage patients’ day-to-day health needs and provide preventative care, and evidence shows it can drive down costs and improve outcomes.
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US Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Brian Fitzpatrick introduced bipartisan legislation to assist school districts in funding telemental health services. By Mark Melchionna March 27, 2023 – Introduced by US Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), the Connecting Students with Mental Health Services Act would assist school districts in funding telemental health services, thereby improving access to care. Mental health
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Erica Carbajal Members of a homeless advocate group are accusing hospitals across San Diego of prematurely discharging homeless or indigent patients — a practice known as patient dumping, according to local news outlets. On March 22, an advocacy group called Housing 4 the Homeless held a press conference outside of Scripps Mercy Hospital in San
