In Light Of Zika Findings, Stepped-Up Monitoring Of Children鈥檚 Symptoms Urged
Three different studies highlight the challenges ahead for the health system as it attempts to address the damage done to children who were exposed to it in utero.
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Three different studies highlight the challenges ahead for the health system as it attempts to address the damage done to children who were exposed to it in utero.
Responding to a national epidemic, many state Medicaid programs are making the coverage rules for these opioid-based medicines tougher so that physicians will think twice before prescribing them. But some worry that legitimate pain patients could suffer.
Training these first responders to identify people who are suffering from mental illness and connect them with treatment other than the emergency room could be part of the solution to gaps in the nation鈥檚 mental health system.
Republicans want to jettison the health law, but some features are already hardwired into the system.
Voters across the country also considered a variety of health policy questions as they decided state ballot measures.
A study that showed positive results in terms of contraceptive efficacy but may have been linked to depression has sparked debate about possible bias in contraceptive research. But the issues may not be so simple.
New research tracks how the widespread availability of these high-powered medications is causing a high rate of hospitalizations for opioid poisoning among children.
Rhode Island installed coaches in all of the state鈥檚 hospital emergency rooms and others are following its lead.
States are contemplating whether access to IUD through post-delivery procedures could be an important step in curbing unintended pregnancies.
Research released by the American College of Emergency Physicians highlights how gaps in mental health care play out in the emergency room with longer stays and difficulties in securing follow-up care.
Testing people 鈥 especially pregnant women 鈥 who may have been exposed to the virus is an integral part of the response strategy, but it鈥檚 putting a strain on this part of the nation鈥檚 public health infrastructure. New congressional funding could change that.
The federal government is supporting efforts to test whether telemedicine strategies can be used to treat Appalachia鈥檚 painkiller addiction crisis.
Here鈥檚 a breakdown of what women should know, and what is still unclear, regarding how Zika is transmitted, who is at risk and how to take precautions against it.
Mosquito season may be ending in parts of the U.S., but public health officials say the additional resources will make a difference because the threat will not be measured in one cycle but in years.
Cost pressures may induce patients to forego needed care, some worry.
Research suggests pediatricians shy away from the topic, but parents generally are open to discussing firearms in the context of safe storage.
Researchers writing in Health Affairs report that decisions by 19 states to not expand the program for low-income residents could be hurting the financial stability of rural hospitals.
A Brazilian case report indicates the virus may cause brain impairment after a child is born, increasing the need for tracking the development of children who may have been exposed.
Research to be published in full this fall details how medicine鈥檚 鈥渋mplicit bias鈥 鈥 whether real or perceived 鈥 undermines the doctor-patient relationship and the well-being of racial and ethnic minorities as well as lower-income patients.
A new study finds that women may have suffered more complications and needed more follow-up care as a result of the law. The law鈥檚 advocates question the findings.
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