By Susanna Vogel | Associate Editor Hispanolistic via Getty Images Dive Brief:– The CMS continued its crackdown on hospice fraud on Tuesday, announcing nearly 400 hospice facilities may be removed from Medicare if the practices cannot prove they’re legitimate enterprises through address verification.– The agency identified the potentially fraudulent operations by making unannounced visits to...
by Lori Solomon Patients report that a ketogenic diet (KD) improves multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms, according to a study published in the August issue of Clinical Nutrition. Emma Wetmore, from University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and colleagues evaluated patient perceptions of the KD. The analysis included three-month follow-up from 52 participants with relapsing MS previously...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Culinary Medicine eConsult EHR referral example, requesting clinician view. Credit: Nutrients (2023). DOI: 10.3390/nu15122816Expert advice on nutrition delivered to patients electronically saved physicians time, improved patient satisfaction, and was reimbursable by insurance, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report. The findings, published in Nutrients, showcase a new model developed at UT...
by Elsevier Color corresponds with slope change of heat related illness (HRI) diagnoses over our assessment period (red=larger positive slope, followed by orange, and the least slope change in yellow). Credit: The Journal of Climate Change and HealthResearchers report a statistically significant and clinically important increase in heat related illnesses among patients at US Department...
POSTED BY KATHY KATELLA-YALE Experts from Yale University have answers for you about the newly updated COVID-19 vaccines. There will be better protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19 in the coming months now that newly updated (2023–2024 formula) mRNA COVID vaccines are available. The new shots are expected to keep more people from...
by Elana Gotkine Cancer survivors have a significantly higher prevalence of hearing loss (HL) than the general population, according to a study published online Oct. 5 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Qian Wang, M.D., M.P.H., from the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, and colleagues estimated the prevalence of subjective and objective HL...
by Jim Lynch, University of Michigan Dr. Alex Duryea, Ph.D., Manager of Applied Research at HistoSonics, adjusts an ultrasound “phantom”—a gel mixed with red blood cells that serves as the test’s tumor—prior to performing a histotripsy treatment demonstration. Credit: Erica Bass, Rogel Cancer Center, Michigan MedicineThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of...
by American College of Physicians Credit: CC0 Public DomainAn animal sedative approved by the FDA, xylazine has now made its way to the illicitly manufacture fentanyl supply, creating new challenges for physicians caring for its victims. Xylazine, an animal sedative that is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for veterinary use only, has...
by Noah Fromson, University of Michigan Graphical Abstract. Credit: JACC:Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100581The vast majority of people who have a minimally invasive heart valve replacement procedure do not participate in recommended cardiac rehabilitation, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds. Researchers used clinical registry and health care claims data from over 3,300 patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve...
by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Synthetic patients are generated by using the NIST-Ashkenazi Trio samples, filtered based on the autosomal recessive mode of inheritance and MAF values. We add the reported disease-associated variants either from GPCards (a public database covering manually curated genotype-phenotype associations) or PAVS (a database that covering clinically validated pathogenic...
