UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IMAGE: BARBARA “BASIA” ANDRAKA-CHRISTOU IS AN EXPERT IN HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH POLICY AND SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDER TREATMENT. PHOTO CREDIT: BLAKE OSTING CREDIT: PHOTO CREDIT: BLAKE OSTING, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA By Danielle Hendrix ’15 ORLANDO, July 13, 2023 – In 2021, more people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. than any other...
by Samantha Liss, KFF Health News Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, with the tussle over profits now spilling into statehouses across the country. The issue is that some insurers are bypassing hospital pharmacies and physician offices and instead sending more complex drugs...
by Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For those fearing their memories are fading, the ads provide hope. “Early diagnosis extends quality of life,” says an ad by Dung Trinh, an Orange County physician, on the website of a program for seniors at Mount of Olives Church in Mission Viejo. Trinh offers...
by Xavier Aguilar, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Psychological therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder. What does the scientific evidence recommend? Credit: UOC Researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Parc Taulí University Hospital have developed a mobile application that compiles and presents valuable pieces of information and advice for people who interact with...
by Anna Andrianova, The Conversation Repetitive negative thinking can impact sleep quality, reduce efficiency and impair decision-making abilities. Credit: Shutterstock Do you ever find yourself caught in a cycle of negative thoughts? Maybe you ruminate on past mistakes, worry excessively about the future, or imagine worst-case scenarios? Do you sometimes have a great day, everything goes...
Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD July 11, 2023 A smartphone-based app designed to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to adults with type 2 diabetes received marketing approval as a class II medical device from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 10, becoming the first digital behavioral therapeutic device for people with diabetes to receive this designation for US patients. Better...
Megan Brooks July 06, 2023 Investigators have developed and validated a new risk calculator to help predict death by suicide in the 6 to 12 months after an episode of nonfatal self-harm, new research shows. A study led by Seena Fazel, MBChB, MD, University of Oxford, UK, suggests the Oxford Suicide Assessment Tool for Self-harm (OxSATS) may help guide treatment decisions...
By News Desk on July 10, 2023 Officials in the Seattle/King County area of Washington are investigating an outbreak of infections from Salmonella Berta. One-third of the patients have required hospitalization. Public Health Seattle & King County announced the investigation into the outbreak on July 10. All six outbreak patients have been tested using whole genome sequencing and...
By PLOS JULY 10, 2023 A research team has found that Nourseothricin, an old antibiotic, could be effective against drug-resistant bacteria. Improved purification techniques have identified less toxic forms of the antibiotic, specifically Streptothricin-F, that show strong activity against Gram-negative bacteria, by binding to a bacterial ribosome subunit and inducing translation errors, offering a unique approach to...
Lori Youmshajekian July 05, 2023 Madeline Sterling, MD, knew something was wrong when she heard her patient’s voice on the phone. The patient was breathing too fast and sounded fatigued. Like many people with heart failure, this patient had several comorbidities: diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer, which was in remission. The patient had been in and out...
