California—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Alison Kodjak, NPR News Benjamin Hynden, a financial adviser in Fort Myers, Fla., hadn’t been feeling well for a few weeks last fall. He’d had pain and discomfort in his abdomen. In October, he finally made an appointment to see his doctor about it. “It wasn’t[Read More…]
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FDA Permits Marketing of Device to Detect Certain Diabetes-related Eye Problems
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Angela Stark The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted marketing of the first medical device to use artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of the eye disease diabetic retinopathy in adults who have diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy occurs when high levels[Read More…]
First-Ever Realistic Drug Education Curriculum Piloted in New York City High School
Students and Teachers at Bard High School in Manhattan Just Say “No” to Ineffective Abstinence-Only Approaches and “Yes” to Harm Reduction New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Tony Newman and Stefanie Jones Bard High School Early College Manhattan (BHSEC) is known for its innovative curriculum. Now, they are taking[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Motion to Defend Affordable Care Act Against Federal Lawsuit
Madigan & 15 Attorneys General File Motion to Intervene to Protect Health Care for Millions CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined 15 other Attorneys General filing a motion to intervene in Texas et al. v. United States et al. This lawsuit, filed in federal district[Read More…]
FDA Restricts Sale and Distribution of Essure Permanent Birth Control Product to Protect Women
FDA to require patients receive risk information Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2018 Contact: Deborah Kotz The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an order to restrict the sale and distribution of the Essure device to ensure that all women considering use of the permanent contraception device are provided with[Read More…]
New Report Finds State Innovations in Health Care Are Lowering Costs While Maintaining or Improving Quality of Care
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2018 By: Thomas Huelskoetter Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report on the impact of major state payment and delivery system reforms to lower health care costs. The report, “Evaluating State Innovations to Reduce Health Care Costs,” looks at the results to date of different payment and[Read More…]
Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2018 By: Liz Szabo When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha Gulati noticed that many of her mentors were prescribing vitamin E and folic acid to patients. Preliminary studies in the early 1990s had linked both supplements to a lower risk of heart disease. She urged her[Read More…]
National Institutes of Health Completes In-depth Genomic Analysis of 33 Cancer Types
Bethesda, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 5, 2018 Contact: Sheena Faherty, Ph.D., NHGRI Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have completed a detailed genomic analysis, known as the PanCancer Atlas, on a data set of molecular and clinical information from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer. “This project is the[Read More…]
What Makes Us Truly Happy and Healthy?
Multi-year Harvard research collaboration with Aetna will assess well-being across numerous dimensions of health and wholeness Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—April 3, 2018 Contacts: Caroline Perry and Todd Datz What does it mean to be well? Not just “not ill,” but really thriving? Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at[Read More…]
Germs with Unusual Antibiotic Resistance Widespread in U.S.
Ramped-up CDC strategy helps providers stop spread of new germs, prevents large outbreaks Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—April 3, 2018 Contact: CDC Media Relations Health departments working with CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network found more than 220 instances of germs with “unusual” antibiotic resistance genes in the United States last year, according[Read More…]
