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Band aids for Medicaid: preserving the high numbers of child health coverage during the pandemic
Pediatr Res. 2023 Feb 17:1-4. doi: 10.1038/s41390-023-02493-6. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:36804503 | PMC:PMC9937519 | DOI:10.1038/s41390-023-02493-6
Source: Pediatric Research - February 22, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Shetal Shah Pediatric Public Policy Council Source Type: research

News at a glance: South Korea ’s lunar orbiter, the U.S. monkeypox response, and a lost Earth-science satellite
PLANETARY SCIENCE South Korea sends orbiter to Moon to search for ice South Korea’s first Moon probe was lofted into space from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 4 August by a SpaceX rocket. The $200 million Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also called Danuri—“enjoy the Moon” in Korean— will study the Moon from a polar orbit for at least a year. One of the probe’s five instruments will capture polarized light to measure the grain sizes of lunar dust, an indicator of “weathering” by the solar wind and hence of the age of features such as lava flows and impact craters. In another first, a high...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Inside the Effort to Promote Abortion Pills For a Post-Roe America
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer, as a leaked draft opinion suggests it may, abortion will likely be banned or severely restricted in about half of the United States. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the country will return to a world before 1973, when the landmark Supreme Court case enshrined a constitutional right to abortion. Abortion pills, which can be ordered online and delivered by mail, have already fundamentally changed reproductive rights in America. The regimen of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, can in theory be safely taken anywhere, including in the privacy of people&rsquo...
Source: TIME: Health - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams and Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized abortion feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

The co-occurrence of smoking and alcohol use disorder in a hospital-based population: Applying a multimorbidity framework using geographic information system methods
Addict Behav. 2021 Feb 26;118:106883. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106883. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of premature mortality in the US and concurrent use is associated with even greater health risks. A cross-sectional study of 20,310 patients admitted to a Mid-Atlantic acute health care system between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 were categorized according to smoking and alcohol use disorder (AUD) status. Of the total admissions, 1464 (7.2%) were current smokers with an AUD. These patients were younger (52.4 vs. 63.9), more likely to be male (64.1% vs. 38.0%) and covered by Med...
Source: Addictive Behaviors - March 13, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Scott D Siegel Madeline Brooks Heather E Ragozine-Bush Robert A Schnoll Frank C Curriero Source Type: research

Federal Aid Creates Central ‐​Planning Power
This study argues that Congress should repeal all federal aid-to-state programs for many reasons, including that aid comes with costly strings attached that destroy local democracy.Richard Epstein and Mario Loyolanoted about aid programs: “When Americans vote in state and local elections, they think they are voting on state and local policies. But often they are just deciding which local officials get to implement the dictates of distant and insulated federal bureaucrats, whom even Congress can’t control.”I came across a table (p. 82) in New Jersey ’s budget that lists the $15 billion the state received in 2020 fro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

2019 Health Law Professors Conference
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Trazodone for Insomnia: A Systematic Review
Conclusion. A review of the literature suggests that there are adequate data supporting the efficacy and general safety of the low-dose use of trazodone for the treatment of insomnia. keywords: insomnia, hypnotics, treatment, trazodone, sedative Keywords: insomnia, hypnotics, treatment, trazodone, sedative Innov Clin Neurosci. 2017;14(9–10):24–34 Introduction Insomnia is characterized by difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or waking too early1 and is associated with significant impairments in daytime activities, which might occur despite adequate opportunities for sleep.2–6 Primary insomnia is an or...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - July 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICNS Online Editor Tags: Current Issue Review hypnotics insomnia sedative trazodone treatment Source Type: research

Government Appropriation Of Breakthrough Drug Patent Rights Would Deter Biopharmaceutical R&D And Innovation
In the May 2016 issue of Health Affairs, Amy Kapezynski and Aaron Kesselheim propose that the federal government invoke its patent use authority under Section 1498 to lower drug prices and increase access for breakthrough medicines in government-funded health care programs. Section 1498 allows the government eminent domain-type powers to circumvent an inventor’s patent exclusivity rights in exchange for “reasonable and entire compensation” — in effect a royalty on sales which would be determined through negotiation or by the courts. To date, application of Section 1498 has been limited to selective military and...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Henry Grabowski Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Big Pharma Cooperative Research and Development Agreements eminent domain hepatitis C Section 1498 Sovaldi Source Type: blogs

Hearing Aids And The Sound Of Mobile Health Disruption
Business disruption, Christensen’s classic observation of disruptive technologies leveraged by market entrants attacking mainstream industry incumbents, has generally failed in health care. There are several reasons why innovative businesses harnessing modern technologies have found health care a difficult nut to crack. The most likely reason is that the misaligned incentives caused by third-party reimbursement discourage consumers from choosing new, lower-cost alternatives. However, there are additional explanations. Sometimes the arcane, fragmented nature of health care proves to be a poor fit for technologies successf...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Nicolas Terry Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health IT Innovations in Care Delivery apps FDA hearing aids medical devices mobile technology regulation wearables Source Type: blogs