Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: The intervention includes a short survey to determine patients’ needs with respect to transportation, food insecurity, financial difficulty related to utility payments, and housing. The final question asked patients, who have at least one risk factor, if they would like assistance with their need(s).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been proved to decrease the cardiovascular adverse events in several large randomized controlled trials (RCTS), but evidence limited to patients with type 2 diabetes and ASCVD.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 25, 2023

New research from scientists at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has found delayed care due to lack of transportation is associated with increased emergency room (ER) use and mortality risk among adults with and without cancer history.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

GPS shows the means of transportation was mostly car (n=9) and walking (n=5), while 2 participants used the bus. In 14 days, the mean number of trips per person was 10.4 (±5.8). The average distance travelled per person was 186.9 km (±130.4), and average per day was 16.8 km (±29.8).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

percent), fewer participants reported module challenges, including transporting PME, glove interactions, and understanding instructions. Based on the results from the first version, modifications were made, and in phase 2, 88.6 percent of participants reported an overall positive experience.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 31, 2025

People who are at higher risk for heart disease also seem more likely to develop dementia.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 3, 2025

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. As of this update, House and Senate leadership, Governor Walz’s office and his administration are still negotiating unresolved issues.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Secondary analysis of longitudinal data using generalized linear mixed effect models Setting or Dataset: Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) randomized controlled trial Population Studied: 301 drivers aged ≥ 70 years enrolled from primary care clinics in California, Colorado, and Indiana.

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NPR Health - Shots

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority ) Millions of New Yorkers embraced an "all in this together" motto during the pandemic — and many are roasting the city's transit agency over updated signs explaining its newly relaxed masking policy.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A team from Brazil has looked at the different stresses on the human body when walking, cycling, and driving. Their findings suggest that taking non-motorized trips is the best option in terms of health and well-being.

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Transportation 72

Medical Xpress

MAY 23, 2025

An announcement about the work explains how an AAV "acts like a shuttle capable of transporting specially designed DNA into the cell." New studies stemming from the Armamentarium consortium outline findings that advance tools based on Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures CRC screening metric is met if colonoscopy in last 10 years, flexible sigmoidoscopy in last 5 years, Cologuard in last 3 years or FIT testing in last year; CRC surveillance metric is met if colonoscopy performed in recommended time interval for patients with family history colon cancer or previous precancerous polyp.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Using a multiple logistic regression, patients who gave high-risk answers to social risk domains of housing risk (OR 0.68), financial risk (OR 0.60), food insecurity (OR 0.64), and transportation needs (OR 0.62) were significantly less likely to meet the D5 metric compared to patients giving low risk answers (all p-values <0.001).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic amplified HRSN disparities, adding stress to social support systems. Logistic regression model- binary indicator for a positive screen.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

vs 3.4%, transportation risk 3.3% live in rural areas. Rural patients are more likely to report social risks compared to urban patients (all p-values < 001) – food insecurity 8.0% vs 6.3%, housing risk 9.8% vs 8.9%, financial risk 4.1% and intimate partner violence 3.2%

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Primary Care Patients Transportation Electronics 130

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation. Plus, we offer transportation services and can help moms who qualify apply for Medicaid. At Center for Family Medicine, we noticed that often pregnant women face several barriers when it comes to getting prenatal care.

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NPR Health - Shots

JULY 27, 2022

After a car wreck, three siblings were transported to the same hospital by ambulances from three separate districts. The sibling with the most minor injuries got the biggest bill. Image credit: Bram Sable-Smith/KHN)

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Patient-Centered Support : Improve trial understanding, reduce participation burden (transportation, housing, visit frequency), and connect patients to support services. Modernized Eligibility Criteria : Broaden lab-based thresholds and include patients with comorbidities or organ dysfunction when clinically appropriate.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

Health professionals who survive a nuclear explosion ( 90% of those in Hiroshima were killed instantly ) would likely face a catastrophic loss of communications, impassable transportation routes, and “ risk their lives amid destroyed infrastructure, dangerous radioactivity, and limited healthcare facilities and supplies.”

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 5, 2023

Infections of the middle ear, the air-filled space behind the eardrum that contains the tiny vibrating bones of hearing, annually affect more than 700 million people worldwide.

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Transportation Complication Medical 75

Medical Xpress

APRIL 7, 2023

New research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute is shining a light on lighting uncertainties.

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Transportation 98

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Our bodies are made up of 60,000 miles of complex pipes that play a vital role in transporting nutrients throughout our bodies, performing waste disposal, and supplying our organs with fresh oxygen and blood.

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Transportation Medical 98

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Severely injured patients who meet criteria for care at a trauma center have nearly double the odds of surviving if they are transported directly by medical helicopter to a Level I or II trauma center, compared to those first driven to a regular hospital and then flown to a trauma center, according to a new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh (..)

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Medical Xpress

MAY 4, 2023

Scientists from Singapore have demonstrated the critical role played by a special transporter protein in regulating the brain cells that ensure nerves are protected by coverings called myelin sheaths.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. In MS, the activated immune cells attack myelin, a protective layer surrounding nerve cells, which disrupts the transmission of nerve impulses along nerve cells.

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Transportation Medical 72

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

PCB2DG, a polyphenol with anti-inflammatory properties, works by targeting and directly interacting with the major glutamine transporter protein, alanine serine cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2), to inhibit the uptake of glutamine, an important amino acid found in the blood.

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Transportation 74

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Target genes of miR-873-5p were enriched in pathways related to oxidative stress, inflammation responses, and magnesium ion transmembrane transporter activity of neuronal cells. HNRNPK had the highest interaction degree with other target genes.

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Transportation 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Common barriers to DM in the context of social needs included: appointment durations; lack of awareness of, and limited existing programs to address social needs; lack of on-site support staff (eg, social workers); and inconsistent transportation services for patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Transportation and scheduling challenges also hindered engagement. Outcome Measures: Themes regarding barriers to and facilitators of engagement. Results: Social and economic factors, such as housing instability and limited income, presented significant barriers to management of T2D and intervention engagement.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Social workers who collaborated in dyad with nurse case managers helped in identifying patients’ mental health issues as well as unmet social needs, e.g. poor-quality housing, social isolation, and difficulty affording transportation, or food.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Future work will assess the immune and transport function of the microvasculature to inform experiments aimed at the application of adjuvant therapies during scenarios of tumor partial ablation,” the authors concluded. The post SA-HFIRE Spurs Dynamic, Immune-Linked Tumor Structure Shifts first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Transportation Engineering IT 52

Medical Xpress

MARCH 7, 2023

A molecule involved in fat transport and metabolism is key to the progression of the malignant blood cancer multiple myeloma, researchers report today in eLife.

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Transportation Medical 74

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Transportation to and from cancer centers for outpatient cancer treatments has been identified as one of the two most impactful out-of-pocket costs that cancer patients and their families incur, along with food costs.

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AMMD

APRIL 24, 2025

From there, blood or lymph receives these nutrient molecules and carries them to the cells via cellular transport (1). Each villi uses blood capillaries and lymph vessels to carry nutrients across the membranes. Charcoal comes from burned carbon-based materials, particularly wood or coconut shells.

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AMMD

MAY 8, 2025

Several key nutrients, known as cofactors, are essential for their effectiveness: Magnesium converts vitamin D into its active form, supports bone structure, and helps regulate calcium transport. Boron aids bone formation, supports hormone metabolism, and enhances the utilization of magnesium, calcium, and vitamin D.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ana Guadaño at the Alberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBM, a combined CSIC-UAM center) and involving the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), used CRISPR gene editing techniques to incorporate into mice a mutation of the MCT8 protein responsible for transporting thyroid hormones to the interior of the cell.

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Transportation Medical 75

AMMD

JUNE 4, 2025

Key nutrients that support thyroid function and enhance the hypothyroidism diet include: Selenium – reduces thyroid antibodies and supports hormone conversion(4) Zinc – essential for hormone production and immune modulation Vitamin D – crucial for immune balance and mood regulation Iron – supports energy production and oxygen transport Iodine – necessary (..)

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