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For common surgeries, children’s hospitals cost more but offer no outcome benefit
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- Linda Carroll
“Perhaps the biggest driver is that children’s hospitals care for a larger number of patients who are publicly insured or are uninsured.”
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Statins for primary prevention tied to lower risk of COVID-19 hospitalization
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- Linda Carroll
Patients taking statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease may have a lower risk of hospitalization for COVID-19 than matched...
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Manipulative features of some apps may push preschoolers to spend money, too much time playing
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- Linda Carroll
“Apps that respect the user’s time and are aligned with child development should be the norm, but right now they are the exception.”
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Care for veterans with advanced kidney disease fractured by lack of coordination
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“A lot of this is because of the integration piece and poor communication between care teams inside and outside the VA. Records are not shared.”...
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Sexual minorities less likely to receive Pap screening
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“This is very concerning, as cervical-cancer screening can catch this disease at early stages to prevent poor outcomes.”
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Child’s age influences whether smoke alarms will awaken them
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
Among children aged 5-12, the median time to awaken and median time to escape decreased with increasing age for all smoke alarm types.
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Type 1 diabetes not just a childhood-onset disease
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
Despite popular belief that type 1 diabetes is a disease that starts in childhood, its onset in adults is substantial, researchers report.
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Medicare Part D beneficiaries without low-income subsidy less apt to fill prescriptions for pricey drugs
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
An analysis of more than 17,000 prescriptions written between 2012 and 2018 for Part D beneficiaries revealed that patients receiving subsidies...
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Lung damage may persist long after COVID-19 pneumonia clears
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“Lung changes that were still present half a year after the disease remained constant in more than 60% of the...
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Occupational disinfectant use during pregnancy tied to eczema, asthma in offspring
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“The microbiome is said to be involved in the development of allergic diseases in children and it is possible that the microbiome is altered by...
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Prediabetes rates climbing among U.S. youth
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
The increase was most pronounced in males, rising from 15.8%-36.4%, compared with females, for whom rates rose from 7.1%-19.6%.
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Long-term antibiotic use in midlife tied to later decline in cognitive function in women
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- Linda Carroll
“A growing body of evidence supports that the gut microbiome may be linked to cognitive decline or the development of dementia.”
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Sentinel-lymph-node biopsies rising in patients with inflammatory breast cancer, against guidelines
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“They deserve their best chance of cure and, based on the existing data, that includes an axillary-lymph-node dissection rather than a sentinel-...
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Black physicians under-represented at every point in surgical training pipeline
- Author:
- Linda Carroll
“This study is a call to action for everyone.”
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Surgeons successfully reattach testis after wrong-site surgery
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- Linda Carroll
“The take-home message is that microsurgery can be used to reattach an organ, in the case of a wrong-site surgery.”