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Four health care experts discussed the implementation and feasibility of universal health care in the United States at a Berkeley Forum event Thursday.
The panelists’ central debate was about whether or not universal health care is possible in the United States.
The panel included Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals; Adam Gaffney, assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Jui-Fen Rachel Lu, professor at the Graduate Institute of Business and Management at Chang Gung University in Taiwan; and Scott Sinder, chair and partner of Steptoe and Johnson’s Government Affairs and Public Policy practice group.
March 08, 2021
Over the long term, patients who survive an aortic dissection appear to do just as well treated with either beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors/ARBs rather than other antihypertensive drugs, a retrospective analysis suggests.
Compared with other drug classes, beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors/ARBs each were associated with lower risks of all-cause hospital readmission and all-cause mortality over a span of up to 12 years, according to researchers led by Shao-Wei Chen, MD, PhD (Linkou Medical Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
There were no differences for any outcomes which also included death due to aortic aneurysm or dissection, later aortic operation, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events, and new-onset dialysis when those two medication groups were compared with each other.
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To catch cancer earlier, we need to predict who is going to get it in the future. The complex nature of forecasting risk has been bolstered by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, but the adoption of AI in medicine has been limited by poor performance on new patient populations and neglect to racial minorities.
Two years ago, a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Jameel Clinic (J-Clinic) demonstrated a deep learning system to predict cancer risk using just a patient’s mammogram. The model showed significant promise and even improved inclusivity: It was equally accurate for both white and Black women, which is especially important given that Black women are 43 percent more likely to die from breast cancer.
2021/01/22 10:49 Taoyuan General Hospital. Taoyuan General Hospital. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The COVID-19 variant L452R, which is increasingly prevalent across California, is the culprit behind the Taoyuan hospital cluster infection, said Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞), deputy chief of the Central Epidemic Command Center s (CECC) medical response division. A COVID patient who returned from the U.S. in late December spread the virus to his physician, Case No. 828 at Taoyuan General Hospital s intensive care unit. The doctor s live-in partner, a nurse working at the same hospital, later also tested positive. In the following days, another doctor, three nurses, and a Vietnamese caregiver all tested positive. Three family members of the infected have also been confirmed with the virus.