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Reliance on administrative billing codes to track medical conditions can lead to high diagnostic error rates

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified. Databases frequently used for medical research typically rely on ambulatory billing codes to identify diseases or medical procedures, but their accuracy is rarely verified in publications that rely on this data.

Funder: UCLA Department of Surgery Research Funds, NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Women of African ancestry may be biologically predisposed to early onset or aggressive breast cancers

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research from the University of Notre Dame is shedding light on why Black women are likely to have early-onset or more aggressive subtypes of breast cancer. The study published in iScience found that a population of cells in breast tissues, dubbed PZP cells, send cues that prompt behavioral changes that could promote breast cancer growth.

Journal: iScience
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

Breaking the silence: MyMenoplan.org empowers women to take charge of menopause

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Menopause remains one of the most under-discussed stages of life, even though more than 1 million women in the U.S. experience this natural biological transition each year. Women's health experts designed a website to empower individuals to take charge of menopause.

Journal: Maturitas
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging

Not all addictions treated alike: Study uncovers bias among healthcare providers

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new national study finds that stigma toward patients with substance use disorders (SUD) remains widespread among U.S. healthcare providers—and varies significantly across types of substances.

Journal: Addiction
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

Study shows a need for vigilance when observing long COVID symptoms in younger children

Rutgers University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Infants, toddlers and preschoolers exhibit symptoms of long COVID, but the symptoms can be different and more difficult to identify in these children, according to Rutgers Health research.

The new study is part of the National Institutes of Health–funded Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

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