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Patients searching for prices on imaging services and sleep studies choose health care facilities with lower prices

Searching for Price Info Affects Choice of Health Care Facility

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Patients who viewed price estimates chose health care facilities with lower relative price estimates
The brains of children with posttraumatic stress disorder have structural differences not seen in the brains of children without the disorder

Disruptions in Brain Structure Seen in Children With PTSD

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MRI detects variations in neural connections of earthquake survivors, researchers say
Just one season of competitive football may cause changes in some young players' developing brains

Altered Brain Structure Seen With Just One Season of Youth Football

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Not yet clear if changes are lasting or meaningful
Nearly one-third of cancer deaths among Americans aged 35 or older are caused by smoking

Smoking Still Responsible for Many U.S. Cancer Deaths

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Linked to close to one-third of fatal cancers in patients 35 and older
For breast cancer care

Bundled-Payment Program Deemed Better for Breast CA Care

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Better adherence to quality indicators, outcome, and cost control over time in Taiwanese study
More than 90 percent of men in Sweden who have very low-risk prostate cancer choose close monitoring rather than immediate treatment -- and more American men should use that option

Surveillance Rates on Rise in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

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In Sweden, 90 percent with very low-risk disease choose this option instead of immediate treatment
Financial toxicity is a clinically relevant outcome for patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer

Financial Toxicity Is a Relevant Cancer Outcome Measure

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Health-related quality of life correlated with financial toxicity in cancer patients
Migrants from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis who undergo screening before entry to low-incidence countries pose a negligible risk of onward transmission but are at increased risk of the infection

Migrants Screened for Active TB Pose Negligible Transmission Risk

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Screening, monitoring, treatment important in continuing downward trend of tuberculosis incidence
The risk of radiocontrast-associated nephropathy may be overestimated

Risk of Nephropathy From Radiocontrast Overestimated

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Risk of acute kidney injury varies by comorbidity and acuity of illness
Mammography screening is much more likely to find insignificant breast tumors than it is to catch potentially life-threatening cancer in its early stages

Study Finds Mammograms Lead to High Rate of Overdiagnosis

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Better treatment and not earlier detection may be the reason for reduction in breast cancer mortality