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  • America’s long-term care system needs help: Can Europe provide a model for how to improve it?
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:40 pm

    For millions of Americans, long-term care presents enormous financial, logistical and emotional challenges. Private long-term care insurance is prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable, and most older Americans aren’t eligible for Medicaid until they exhaust nearly all their financial resources.

  • Effective obesity treatments reach few eligible teens, study finds
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:20 pm

    Despite the arrival of powerful new anti-obesity medications and growing evidence supporting weight-loss surgery for adolescents, the vast majority of eligible teens are receiving neither treatment, according to a new study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago published in JAMA Pediatrics.

  • Children who travel further for common surgery have more complications and longer hospital stays
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:20 pm

    Nearly one in eight children undergoing a common inpatient surgical procedure lived more than 60 miles (97 kilometers) from the hospital where they received care. These children had higher odds of complications, longer hospital stays and higher hospital charges than children who lived closer, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

  • Bioengineers create portable tool to spot preterm birth risk
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    Biomedical engineers at Florida International University have built a portable imaging device designed to detect early signs of preterm labor risk in about five seconds. The system, called PPRIM (Portable Preterm Imaging), could flag risk up to three months earlier than current screening methods.

  • Study identifies potential strategy to reduce breast reconstruction complications after proton therapy
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    Radiation therapy is sometimes needed after mastectomy and breast reconstruction for breast cancer. However, patients with implant-based reconstruction who receive radiation therapy have a higher risk of capsular contracture, a complication in which scar tissue tightens around the implant. In more severe cases, it can cause breast pain, firmness or distortion and may require additional surgery.