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‘Music festival gone wrong’: Medical students take part in mock mass casualty incident |  Idaho

‘Music festival gone wrong’: Medical students take part in mock mass casualty incident | Idaho

MERIDIAN — The blood, while fake, looked pretty convincing, staining the asphalt in the parking lot. Mock patients fill the lawn outside the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine during a mass casualty training event Friday. Brian Myrick / Idaho Press A man was lying unconscious on his back with a red gash on his forehead. …

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Frailty and social isolation exacerbate health risks

Frailty and social isolation exacerbate health risks

In a recent review published in the journal The Lancet Healthy Longevity, researchers pooled the results of 130 observational studies examining bidirectional associations between frailty and social vulnerability, a growing concern in today’s unnaturally long-lived human society. Their findings show that both frailty (reduced physiological reserve) and social vulnerability (insufficient social interactions, support, or connections) …

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The impact of sedentary behavior on the relationship between daily step count and health outcomes

The impact of sedentary behavior on the relationship between daily step count and health outcomes

In a recent study published in British Journal of Sports Medicineresearchers examined how sedentary time affects the relationship between daily step count and the risks of all-cause mortality and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). study: Do associations of daily steps with mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence differ by levels of sedentary time? A device-based cohort study. …

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Novant at the end of 2023 with investment income, core income gains

Novant at the end of 2023 with investment income, core income gains

A recovery in its investment income portfolio and a significant gain in core earnings lifted Novant Health Inc. to a 47.2% increase in excess revenue over expenses to $385.3 million for the fourth quarter. Excess revenue in a for-profit organization like Novant equals profit in a for-profit business, while a deficit equals a loss. Novant …

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Artificial intelligence outperforms doctors in summarizing health records, study shows

Artificial intelligence outperforms doctors in summarizing health records, study shows

In a recent study published in the journal Natural medicinean international team of researchers identified the best large-scale language models and adaptation methods for clinical summarization of large amounts of data from electronic health records and compared the performance of these models with that of medical experts. Study: Adapted large language models can outperform medical …

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Exposure to neighborhood violence associated with unmet health needs and increased child care utilization

Exposure to neighborhood violence associated with unmet health needs and increased child care utilization

A new collaborative study between Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hennepin Health Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia finds that exposure to neighborhood violence among children is associated with unmet health care needs and increased utilization in urgent care. Posted in American Journal of Preventive Medicine …

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The California case highlights a broad legal attack on anti-bias training in health care

The California case highlights a broad legal attack on anti-bias training in health care

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Marilyn Singleton was outraged by California’s requirement that every continuing medical education course include training on implicit biases—the ways in which doctors’ unconscious attitudes can contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Singleton, who is black and has practiced for 50 years, sees calling out doctors for implicit bias as …

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Cardiovascular health disparities across the female lifespan

Cardiovascular health disparities across the female lifespan

Women’s cardiovascular disease risks and outcomes differ across the lifespan from those of men, according to a collection of Cardiovascular Research studies focusing on women of all ages published today in a special Spotlight number of Journal of the American Heart Associationa peer-reviewed open access journal of the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular disease kills more …

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Investment income boosted Cone’s excess earnings in Q1

Investment income boosted Cone’s excess earnings in Q1

Another strong performance by Cone Health’s investment portfolio lifted the Greensboro health care system to a $68.3 million revenue surplus for the first quarter of fiscal 2024. The excess of revenue over expenses in a for-profit organization such as Cone equals profit in a for-profit business. Cone’s fiscal year ends on September 30. During the …

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Health leaders are advocating for the restoration of Canada’s hypertension control program

Health leaders are advocating for the restoration of Canada’s hypertension control program

An impassioned call for the re-establishment of the Canadian health coalition focused on hypertension prevention and control appears as an editorial in Canadian Journal of Cardiology, published by Elsevier. “We need a national hypertension control program to prevent death and disability,” according to prominent health care leaders. Lead editorial author Norm RK Campbell, MD, Department …

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