How Ballot Initiatives Changed the Game on Medicaid Expansion

ImageDelivering boxes of ballot initiative petitions to the Missouri secretary of state’s office in Jefferson City in May. Missouri voters will decide whether to expand Medicaid today. Credit…David A. Lieb/Associated Press It was the middle of 2016, and Obamacare supporters were stuck. Nineteen states were refusing to participate in the health law’s Medicaid expansion, which provides…

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Study validates Rapid Arterial Occlusion Evaluation (RACE) scale for stroke triage

FAIRFAX, Va. — A new study presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 17th Annual Meeting serves as the first prospective validation of the Rapid Arterial Occlusion Evaluation (RACE) scale in accurately identifying a severe clot stroke called a Large Vessel Occlusion (LVO) by U.S.-based EMS personnel in a pre-hospital setting. The study,…

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Malaria: Parasite resistance to artemisinin derivatives now affecting Africa

Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of the current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is already widespread in South-East Asia, but it had not previously been described in Africa. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Program in Rwanda (Rwanda Biomedical Center), the World Health Organization (WHO), Cochin Hospital and…

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New research: Treatment advancements help reduce mortality from unruptured brain aneurysms

FAIRFAX, Va. — Mortality rates after treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms have substantially decreased in the past decade, according to new findings presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 17th Annual Meeting. The study, Trends in Mortality and Morbidity after Treatment of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm in the United States, 2006-2016, analyzed data from…

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