Clinical

Genetic Screening Results Just Got Harder to Handle Under New Abortion Rules

Jun 27, 2022 at 01:46 pm by Staff

By Sara Reardon, Kaiser Health News Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last August. The test suggest.... Read More

Study reveals how gastric cancer forms, suggests Preventive Treatment

Jun 26, 2022 at 11:41 pm by Staff

A recently published study reveals new insights into how gastric cancer develops and suggests a preventive treatment. Eunyoung Choi, PhD, assistant professor of Surgery, and.... Read More

Today Show: Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center makes national push for clinical study enrollment. You can help.

Jun 26, 2022 at 11:28 pm by Staff

by Holly Fletcher The Today Show’s Maria Shriver spotlighted a landmark, years-long study into the connection between heart health and Alzheimer’s disea.... Read More

Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients Cope and Monitor Treatment

Jun 26, 2022 at 11:10 pm by Staff

By Darius Tahir, Kaiser Health News  In 2011, Sean Duffy and Adrian James were sitting in San Francisco’s Dolores Park debating what to call some workers at t.... Read More

Study Shows Genotype Leads to Discontinued, Decreased Medication

Jun 21, 2022 at 09:53 am by Staff

  Patients whose race is recorded as Black in their electronic health record (EHR) are more likely to have azathioprine, an immunosuppressant medication, discontinued or.... Read More

Will the US Overcome Its Covid Complacency Even as the Threat Returns?

Jun 17, 2022 at 10:49 pm by Staff

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Kaiser Health News A few months ago, it seemed as though the country was poised to finally tame the pandemic, after two years of restriction.... Read More

Pandemic Socialization Reintegration Anxiety

Jun 17, 2022 at 10:45 pm by Staff

By MARY-CATHERINE SEGOTA, PsyD Individual reactions to the pandemic have differed in many ways. The initial adjustment to the shock of sudden and necessary lockdown and deali.... Read More

AMA Adopts New Public Health Policies to Improve Health of Nation

Jun 17, 2022 at 10:38 pm by Staff

CHICAGO - The American Medical Association (AMA), the premier national physician organization in the country, voted this week to adopt new policies aimed at improving the heal.... Read More

Research Probes cause of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Children

Jun 13, 2022 at 04:25 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Research that began at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found evidence that a viral infection followed by a “robust” immune response is the.... Read More

Genes and Age Studied as Markers for Higher Death Rate in Those with Atrial Fibrillation

Jun 13, 2022 at 09:15 am by Staff

by Matt Batcheldor Younger patients with atrial fibrillation who had rare genetic variants associated with inherited cardiomyopathy and arrythmia syndromes were associated wi.... Read More