Tag Archives: Outcomes

Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Anorexia Nervosa

Current research on pregnancy outcomes in women with anorexia nervosa has yielded conflicting results. While some studies report an increased risk of cesarean delivery, miscarriage, preterm birth, and small?for?gestational age birth in this population, others find no association. Many of the studies are limited by small sample sixe and do not account for severity of… Read More »

JAMA: Lower cost hospitals have similar patient outcomes as higher cost counterparts

Dive Brief: A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that Medicare patients with heart failure or pneumonia likely had more costs associated with the hospital where they were receiving treatment than their acuity. The researchers randomly studied 1.22 million patients discharged between July 2013 and June 2016, and further isolated them to 1,615 patient… Read More »

Walgreens, Verily to work on projects to improve health outcomes

One of the nation’s largest drug store chains is staking a position in healthcare through an alliance with a tech company’s life sciences arm. Walgreens Boots Alliance is collaborating with Verily, an Alphabet company, on several projects under a broad agreement aimed at improving health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions. The move is yet… Read More »

Triple combination cancer immunotherapy improves outcomes in preclinical melanoma model

Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) is a promising cancer immunotherapy that involves isolating T cells from cancer patients that are capable of targeting their tumor, selecting the more active T cells and expanding those in the lab, and then transfusing them back into patients. ACT is already available in the clinic for some diseases — CAR… Read More »