The diagnostic ability of SPECT/CT fusion imaging for gastrointestinal bleeding: a retrospective study
Blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract can be an acute and life-threatening event. For the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding, it is important to accurately detect gastrointestinal bleeding and to loca... (Source: BMC Gastroenterology)
Source: BMC Gastroenterology - December 10, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Yoichi Otomi, Hideki Otsuka, Kaori Terazawa, Moriaki Yamanaka, Yuki Obama, Maki Arase, Maki Otomo, Saho Irahara, Michiko Kubo, Naoto Uyama, Takashi Abe and Masafumi Harada Tags: Research article Source Type: research
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In the first six months of 2018, 28.5 million Americans were uninsured—20.1 million fewer than 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The distribution of new coverage, however, is uneven, as shown in the data for states that expanded Medicaid coverage compared to those that did not. (Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg News)
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - November 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The effectiveness of PEPFAR's funding for women and children with HIV/AIDS
SummaryHas President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's (PEPFAR) funding been effective in reducing the rate of HIV new infections and AIDS ‐related deaths among women and children? While previous studies have found HIV/AIDS aid to be ineffective and PEPFAR funding to produce negative externalities, there is lack of empirical examination of the impact of PEPFAR on women and children despite the emphasis on prevention of mother‐to‐ child transmission of HIV during the Bush and Obama administrations. Using descriptive analysis and difference‐in‐differences (DID) regression, this study finds that PEPFAR's funding ha...
Source: The International Journal of Health Planning and Management - November 19, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Yiyeon Kim Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Midterm elections: Health care wins
During the Obama administration, there were states that refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) out of spite against President Obama on the part of the governors in those states, and the GOP ‐dominated Congress spent years vowing to repeal it. Last week, the midterm elections, regardless of the number of Democrat and Republican seats gained and lost, showed that health care was the big winner, with voters in three states where President Trump won — Idaho, Nebraska and Utah — votin g overwhelmingly to bring Medicaid expansion to them. New governors in Kansas, Wisconsin and Maine will likely brin...
Source: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly - November 12, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Alison Knopf Tags: Articles Source Type: research
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More than half of pro-Democratic TV ads in the home stretch to Election Day have mentioned health care, compared to around one-third of Republican ads, according to the Wesleyan Media Project. The prevalence of health care in this year's ads sets 2018 apart, according to Erika Franklin Fowler, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project. That's a big change from the 2010 and 2014 midterms in particular, when Republicans regularly slammed Obamacare, former President Obama's 2010 signature legislative achievement which is also called the Affordable Care Act. Democratic ads, meanwhile, barely touched the topic, according to Wes...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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As Democrats enter the final sprint in a campaign where health care is a dominant issue and a House takeover seems achievable, they are split on whether to promise coverage for everyone, which would fuel an already revved-up liberal base, or target centrist voters by campaigning on the more modest goal of fixing the Obama-era health law. (Stephanie Armour, Wall Street Journal)
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - October 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Surprising Resiliency of the Affordable Care Act
Ever since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, Republicans (and, more recently, President Trump) have made their opposition to the ACA a rallying cry. The focus on “repeal and replace” during the 2014 Congressional election and again in the November 2016 full election led many Republicans to expect a rapid replacement of this key Obama administration legislative victory. House Republicans had even proposed a general legislative strategy before the 2016 ele ction called“A Better Way,” which included changes in several areas of public policy, including health care. (Source: JAMA)
Source: JAMA - October 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Do right-wing and left-wing authoritarianism predict election outcomes?: Support for Obama and Trump across two United States presidential elections
Publication date: 1 February 2019Source: Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 138Author(s): Lucian Gideon Conway, James D. McFarlandAbstractRecent research suggests authoritarianism may play a key role in election outcomes, yet that work has focused almost exclusively on right-wing authoritarianism. In the present work, we compare the ability of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Left-Wing Authoritarianism (LWA) to predict support for candidates during two U.S. Presidential elections (total n = 1582). Samples of Americans who reported their support for each candidate after both the 2008 (n = 467) and 2...
Source: Personality and Individual Differences - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial
“Most of us prefer to surround ourselves with opinions that validate what we already believe. You notice the people who you think are smart are the people who agree with you. Funny how that works.”Barack Obama The Nelson Mandela Lecture, July 18, 2018 (Source: Journal of Pediatric Urology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Urology - October 1, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: A. Caldamone, Y. Heloury, C.D.A. Herndon, P. Hoebeke, D. Wood Source Type: research
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The number of uninsured declined to 28.3 million in the first quarter, down from 29.3 last year—and 48.6 million in 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg News)
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - September 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Trump Labor Department Breathes New Life Into Obama-Era Wage Regulation
No abstract available (Source: Home Healthcare Nurse)
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - September 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Legal Matters Source Type: research
National Strategic Computing Initiative
The National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) was initiated in 2015 by then-US President Barack Obama, with the goal of accelerating scientic discovery and economic competitiveness by maximizing the benets of high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment. This special issue presents four papers that illustrate the state of the eld of HPC and computational science, three years after the initiatives launch. (Source: Computing in Science and Engineering)
Source: Computing in Science and Engineering - August 31, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Information Circulation in times of Ebola: Twitter and the Sexual Transmission of Ebola by Survivors
Conclusion
This article increases our knowledge of the relationship between Twitter and traditional media in times of epidemics. In contrast to previous studies that underlined how users rely on Twitter for sharing information from mainstream media (such as 1,2,3), our study shows that tweets combine information dissemination with emotional stances and critical views, leading to a new or greatly increased debate about a subject that was treated as insignificant by other media. In that sense, Twitter acts mostly as a filter of information as well as a space where it is reconstructed. In the “Twittersphere,” the issue of...
Source: PLOS Currents Outbreaks - August 28, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: cmorin Source Type: research
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For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions, and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career. The fate of President Donald Trump's long effort to repeal Barack Obama's health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017. Then came McCain — 80 years old, recently diagnosed with brain cancer, his face still scarred from surgery, striding with purpose toward the well of the Senate. The Arizona Republican raised his right arm, paused for dramatic effect and flashed a determined thumbs-down, drawing gasps from bo...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - August 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
