Healthcare spending growth projected to outpace GDP to 2032
Jun 13, 2024
National health expenditures are projected to have increased 7.5% in 2023, when the COVID-19 public health emergency ended.
Pandemic-era tax credits made healthcare more affordable, but they’re set to expire
Jun 18, 2024
In a success story for Americans seeking affordable healthcare coverage, tax credits put in place during the pandemic helped millions gain health insurance, a new report found. But the credits are set...
Substituting lower-wage staff for registered nurses tied to worse outcomes
Jun 25, 2024
Harms include avoidable patient deaths, readmissions, longer lengths of stay, excess Medicare costs and forgone cost savings.
2021 to 2022 saw decrease in telemedicine use in past 12 months
Jun 20, 2024
Among adults aged 65 years and older, those who only had Medicare were less likely to use telemedicine.
Preoperative frailty tied to postoperative outcomes in older adults
Jun 19, 2024
Frailty was a better predictor of outcomes than was the operative stress score.
Dysbiosis in phylogenetically diverse species associated with type 2 diabetes
Jun 26, 2024
Within-species phylogenetic diversity was identified for strains of 27 species that explain inter-individual differences in type 2 diabetes risk.
Cannabis use tied to risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions
Jun 25, 2024
The findings persisted even after considering cigarette smoking, vaccination status, comorbidities and other risk factors.
Hospital nursing resources tied to COVID-19 survival
Jun 24, 2024
“If all hospitals in the study had superior nursing resources prior to or during the pandemic, models estimate many thousands of deaths among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 could have been avoided,”...
Medically advised aspirin use lower in 2021 than 2012 to 2017
Jun 24, 2024
Compared with 2012 to 2017, in 2021, medically advised aspirin use for primary prevention was lower (19.3 versus 27.6 to 31.2% among adults aged 60 to 69 years; 30.6 versus 38.35 to 41.6% among those aged...
Vigorous physical activity may preserve cognitive function in high-risk HTN
Jun 24, 2024
High versus low vigorous physical activity was linked to a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment, probable dementia and MCI/probable dementia in a multivariate model.