by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Federal health officials have proposed reclassification of marijuana after determining that it poses a lower public health risk than other controlled substances and offers possible medical benefits. The extensive scientific review illuminates the rationale...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Billing for patient messages sent to providers has risen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA. Charging for e-visits, or asynchronous messages that require medical decision-making and take at least five minutes of clinician time...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association will lead an effort to improve maternity care in about 600 acute care and pediatric hospitals across the nation, including a push to address racial and ethnic disparities. Health equity in maternal care will be added to the list...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Using data from the CDC, the Boston...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Women who suffer from depression during or after a pregnancy are at an elevated risk for suicide, two recent studies found. The first study, published Tuesday in the JAMA Network Open journal, found that women with perinatal depression (PND) were three times as likely...
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