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Neurology Editors on New Guidelines for Reporting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Research Gina Shaw, Neurology Today, April 1, 2021 Some medical journals, including those in neurology, have developed new standards and criteria for addressing racial and ethnic disparities in medical and scientific research while others are in the process of doing so. For more than two decades, the calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations to assess chronic kidney disease (CKD), by using serum creatine and factoring in age, height, weight, and gender, has included a race-based coeff...

Date Time Austin Screening Initiative Strikes a Cost-Effective Balance in Colorectal Cancer Prevention Among Underserved Populations AUSTIN, Texas – We are one step closer to identifying an optimal solution for colorectal cancer screening among low-income populations – one that is both impactful and cost effective – thanks to researchers from The University of Texas at Austin. The study of more than 22,000 adults is published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Using principles of preventive medicine and health economics, a research team from UT Austin’s Dell Medical School a...

AMNews: In what's believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, a Texas patient who presented a fake ID and the patient's father were allowed to go forward with a civil lawsuit against a physician who gave the girl an abortion without contacting her parents. Cherise Mosley Hughes first came into the clinic where Houston general practice physician Douglas Karpen, DO, works in the summer of 2000. She ...

Samuel T. Edwards, MD, MPH; Elizabeth R. Hooker, MS, MPH; Rebecca Brienza, MD, MPH; Bridget O’Brien, PhD; Hyunjee Kim, PhD; Stuart Gilman, MD; Nancy Harada, PhD, PT; Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH; Sarah Shull, PhD; Meike Niederhausen, PhD; Samuel King, MS, MDiv; Elizabeth Hulen, MA; Mamta K. Singh, MD, MS; Anaïs Tuepker, PhD, MPH Twenty-seven years ago, the Institute of Medicine launched a primary care consensus study that, at the time, seemed highly aligned with the country’s appetite for health reform and managed care. Primary Care: America’s Health in a New E...

UCLA RESEARCH BRIEF Shopify Partners/Burst Under the Affordable Care Act, the secretary of health and human services is authorized to prohibit payment for services given a “D” rating by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the researchers say. Enrique Rivero | FINDINGS A UCLA-led study shows that physicians frequently order preventive medical services for adult Medicare beneficiaries that are considered unnecessary and of “low value” by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force — at a cost of $478 million per year. The researchers analyzed national survey data over a 10-...