Welcome back to Community Health Roundup: you’re source for the latest in health news and information. This week we are going to take a look at the new guidance issued to states regarding Medicaid and work status, how the University of Illinois Hospital is helping the homeless with housing, how to make lawmakers pay attention toRead more
Hello readers and welcome back to Community Health Roundup: your source for national and (this week) international health news! As always, I have turned over many a virtual stone looking for articles that will make you go “wow, this is interesting!” and I think this week I found some. First, we are going to go to BostonRead more
Ho-Ho-Ho and welcome to the holiday edition of the Community Health Roundup! In this edition, I am shining a light as bright as Rudolph’s nose on some of the more positive health stories this holiday season. So I’ve made a list of articles and checked it twice and I hope you enjoy what I’ve found both informative and nice. So please don’tRead more
Welcome to December, everyone! Last month the ADVANCE team was quite busy with writing new proposals as well as disseminating study findings through papers and conference presentations. The ADVANCE network also reached a milestone: there are now just over 4 million distinct patients in the ADVANCE network data warehouse. I hesitate to celebrate this milestoneRead more
Hello and welcome again to Community Health Roundup! Your source for current health news and the correct spelling of “roundup” (it’s one word not two, only took me a year to realize that). Today, the articles I found are going to make you say “Wowie zowie!”. We’ve got articles about PCORI research, digital pills (youRead more
Written by Ashley Kroll Diabetes has impacted my life for as long as I can remember. My mom was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 1994, when she was pregnant with my youngest brother and, as is common among women with gestational diabetes, it soon developed into type II diabetes. Diabetes has become remarkably common inRead more
Hello all and welcome to another installment of Community Health Round Up! This week I decided to post a day early because I lassoed so many articles I was ecstatic about, I knew I needed to get them out as soon as possible (or ASAP as some might say). So what did I find? WellRead more
What happens when a Communications major spends a lot of time reading health news? Why, another Community Health Round up is created! And this week, this Communications major read so many wonderful articles that it was difficult to choose the ones I did, but I think you are going to really like what I picked.Read more
Happy November, everyone! I, for one, am looking forward to cooler weather after such a hot summer in Portland. Autumn is my favorite time of year as leaves change color, the weather turns colder, and we gear up for the holidays. Here are a few updates for you all: I attended the PCORnet PI meetingRead more
Greetings, ADVANCE colleagues! Welcome to the new ADVANCE web page. Tiffany Prescott and MJ Dunne have done a lot of great work putting it together. Thanks to them for all of their hard work and fantastic talent! Our goals for the web site are to attract new research partners to ADVANCE and to share informationRead more
