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Does Medicare Advantage Deliver Better Care for Persons Living With Dementia Than Traditional Medicare?
With data available from CMS on all Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in private plans and traditional Medicare, researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center are driving new research on how payment structures impact the care of persons living with dementia.
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Can a Free Virtual Outreach Series Increase Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness?
Lack of awareness remains one of the biggest barriers to participation in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials, especially among underrepresented groups. New ways to connect with communities and to expand access to clinical trials include a virtual Alzheimer’s disease informational series, which reveals important insights about how people engage with virtual content differently than at in-person events.
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Blood Pressure Medication and Dementia Prevention: The Promising Link
SC Schaeffer Center researchers have turned to real-world data to probe the relationship between antihypertensive use and dementia risk in the U.S. population and among minoritized populations who are at the highest risk of dementia.
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COVID-19’s Total Cost to the U.S. Economy Will Reach $14 Trillion by End of 2023
Workplace absences, along with sales lost due to the cessation of brick-and-mortar retail shopping, airline travel and public gatherings, contributed the most.
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A COVID Takeaway for California: Data Needs to Drive Health Policy
A key lesson from the pandemic is that the state needs to get a better handle on economic trade-offs as it implements preventive measures, especially vaccines.
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Should the Government Restrict Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising? Six Takeaways on Their Effects.Â
Policymakers should proceed with caution as they design proposals to restrict advertising. Â
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Two Percent of U.S. Children Receive High Quality Tutoring, Despite Billions Funneled into School Systems
We are far from the goal of providing high-quality tutoring to all who need it.
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Eli Lilly Is Cutting Insulin Prices and Capping Copays at $35 – 5 Questions Answered
The drugmaker’s move responded to the growing competition that has shaken up the insulin market in recent years.
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Many Americans Wrongly Assume They Understand What Normal Blood Pressure Is – and That False Confidence Can Be Deadly
Nearly half of all Americans ages 20 and up have high blood pressure. Yet research shows that most people in the US don’t know the cutoff numbers for healthy blood.
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Small Cannabis Producers Have Bigger Problems than State Taxes and Regulation
Removing regulations and taxes on cannabis sales would take away resources that are needed to address legitimate public health concerns and won’t solve the supply-side problem.
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