- Competition as the engine for lowering healthcare costs: Turning our healthcare payment system into a government-run monopoly is a recipe for high costs and long wait times.
- When it comes to our health – every second counts: Health care: American’s favorite debate topic. While there is much to debate, we can all agree that the patient-provider relationship has been strained by unnecessary regulations and reporting requirements.
- Progress toward 3D printed human organs: There is considerable excitement that 3D printing technology might one day allow scientists to produce fully functional replacement organs from one’s own cells. While there is still a lot to learn, this video shows just some of the amazing progress that is being made.
- Medicaid program integrity: A shared and urgent responsibility: The Medicaid program has grown from $456 billion in 2013 to an estimated $576 billion in 2016, largely fueled by a mostly federally financed expansion of the program to more than 15 million new working age adults.
- Social acceptance helps mental health after ware trauma: A traumatic event is a shocking, scary, or dangerous experience that affects you emotionally. During war, people can be exposed to many different traumatic events. That raises the chances of developing mental health problems—like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression—and poorer life outcomes as adults.
- Gut-dwelling bacterium consumes Parkinson’s drug: Scientists continue to uncover the many fascinating ways in which the trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body influence our health. Now comes yet another surprising discovery: a medicine-eating bacterium residing in the human gut that may affect how well someone responds to the most commonly prescribed drug for Parkinson’s disease.
- Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy: Elevated blood pressure in the first trimester of pregnancy, or an increase in blood pressure between the first and second trimesters, raises the chances of a high blood pressure disorder of pregnancy, according to a study funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Using virtual reality to improve health: Virtual reality—often referred to as “VR”—used to be science fiction. Today, it is everywhere. All you need is a smartphone and a headset to immerse yourself in 3-D virtual worlds or games. This booming technology may also be useful for health care and research.