Day November 11, 2020

Older Americans Who Are Black, Hispanic, or Medicaid-Eligible Are More Likely to Experience Preventable Hospitalizations When complications due to diabetes, asthma, urinary tract infections, high blood pressure and other common conditions lead patients to visit the ER, researchers and health…

Primary Care Teams Test New Tool to Prescribe Referrals for Community Health and Social Services Family physicians provide the majority of health care for underserved rural and urban populations in the U.S. and treat a more diverse population of patients…

Under-Insured Transgender Americans Turn to Riskier, Non-Licensed Sources for Gender-Affirming Hormones Transgender people who lack access to insurance coverage for gender-affirming hormone therapy are more likely to use hormones from sources other than a licensed prescriber, compared to those with…

NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 10, 2020)–Researchers have identified a genetic signature in localized prostate cancer that can predict whether the cancer is likely to spread, or metastasize, early in the course of the disease and whether it will respond to…

New Analysis Finds Lung Cancer Screening Reduces Rates of Lung Cancer-Specific Death Low-dose CT screening methods may prevent one death per 250 at-risk adults screened, according to a meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled clinical trials of lung cancer screening. Researchers…

Representation of Female Authors in Family Medicine Academic Journals is Trending Upward After decades of underrepresentation in medicine, women are now entering many specialties in the United States, including family medicine, at higher rates than men. Despite the rising proportion…

IMAGE: Caltech’s own copy of the first edition of the Principia is part of the Institute’s Archives and Special Collections. In the 18th century, it belonged to French mathematician and natural… view more  Credit: Caltech Archives In a story of lost…

IMAGE: Kimberley Geissler is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. view more  Credit: UMass Amherst Most women are receiving fewer than half the services recommended during their comprehensive…

ITHACA, N.Y. – Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed a 3D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by smashing together powder particles at supersonic speed. This form of technology, known…

IMAGE: The observatories are 173 km apart. The relatively close distance allows more accurate correlation of their data. view more  Credit: © 2020 Ohsawa et al. It is thought that over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust falls to Earth every…