Tag Archives: Health

Weekly Roundup for NOVEMBER 30, 2018: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

What’s worse? Prenatal exposure to antidepressant medications or exposure to maternal depression? Hutchison and colleagues observe that worse executive functioning was observed in the 6-year-old children of mothers with higher levels of depressive symptoms. Prenatal exposure to SSRIs did not have any significant impact on executive functioning. Ruta Nonacs, MD PhD A 6-year longitudinal… Read More: Weekly Roundup for NOVEMBER 30, 2018: Recent Publications in Women’s… »

UPMC's data mission: balance population health and precision medicine

As both provider and payer, UPMC is not just an IDS, it’s an IDFS – what Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha describes as an “integrated delivery financial system.” Managing those twin imperatives at such as high level means lots and lots of data. “We have a lot of data across the health services group,”… Read More: UPMC's data mission: balance population health and precision medicine »

Marianne Udow-Phillips: State should focus more urgently on public health – Crain's Detroit Business

If a patient has an ailment and is lucky enough to have a doctor or nurse to see for a diagnosis, the medical appointment is useless if the patient lacks transportation to the clinic. The same is true if the patient makes it to see the medical professional and gets a diagnosis, but is too… Read More: Marianne Udow-Phillips: State should focus more urgently on public health… »

Health Facts You Need to Know About Smoking E-Cigs

The e-cigarette market is blowing up. Invented in 2003, today, there over 500 e-cig brands in the market and global sales topped 7 billion dollars in 2015. Amid this boom, there is an ongoing debate on the health ramifications of using e-cigs and what the list of the best electronic cigarette options is. While both… Read More: Health Facts You Need to Know About Smoking E-Cigs »