SCIENCE FEATURES

• Research Brief: Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program fails to lower hospital readmissions Penn LDI

• Chart of the Day: Longer prescriptions could equalize all patients’ medication supply Penn LDI

• Medicare’s new drug spending cap will likely help few seniors Penn LDI

• Simple visual aids raise awareness and knowledge about HIV treatment Penn LDI

• Chart of the Day: Health care profits increasingly support shareholder payouts Penn LDI

• Research Brief: Medicare Advantage special needs plans linked to use of inferior hospice care Penn LDI

• Chart of the Day: Here are the most lucrative heart procedures for hospitals Penn LDI

• Automated text messaging for hypertension gets high ratings—and shows why randomized controlled trials are important Penn LDI

• New index shows unequal access to 40 common hospital procedures Penn LDI

• Worker wages stagnate as Medicaid home care spending rises Penn LDI

• A national randomized trial seeks to increase kidney transplants. Is it working? Penn LDI

• How repealing part of a 1938 law could affect jobs and the future health of people with disabilities Penn LDI

• Integrating coverage for people with both Medicare and Medicaid Penn LDI

• For Medicare recipients, care after hospital stays remains common Penn LDI

• What happens when a multihospital system buys an independent hospital? Penn LDI

• Correcting pessimistic mortality beliefs may reduce vaccine hesitancy, Malawi study shows Penn LDI

• Why Latine immigrants say they avoid prenatal care—And what encourages its use Penn LDI

• Three ways to fix value-based payments Penn LDI

• Causes of liver disease are changing. Doctors need better data to study and care for transplant patients Penn LDI

• Emergency care can help patients get health insurance and unclaimed benefits for food, rent, and more Penn LDI

• How can we improve telemedicine for patients with gynecologic cancer? Penn LDI

• Do weath and poverty affect access to less-invasive cardiac procedures? Penn LDI

• A new clinic model makes it easier to get HIV care and prevention in Philadelphia Penn LDI

• Opioid crisis is a major contributor to maternal mortality Penn LDI

• Surgeons are closer to predicting which patients need post-surgery opioids—and which ones don’t Penn LDI

• How racism “gets under the skin” and prematurely ages black people Penn LDI

• For-profit hospitals admit at higher rates from emergency departments than nonprofits Penn LDI

• Patients in Nursing Homes After Hospitalization Have Better Outcomes at Specialized Facilities Penn LDI

• Improving maternal and infant health with better measures of childbirth complications Penn LDI

• Health insurance from employers not threatened—yet—by gene therapy costs Penn LDI

• An interactive web tool boosts use of lung cancer screening Penn LDI

• The best way to prevent HIV is often out of reach for women and marginalized people Penn LDI

• Making doctors better with the wisdom of the crowd Penn LDI

• Aging at home may be harder in rural areas Penn LDI

• What makes an innovative academic medical center? Penn LDI

• Incomplete electronic health records can exacerbate bias in predictive models Penn LDI

• Text messages to ask patients about health care experiences Penn LDI

• Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? Penn LDI research brief

• Racial differences in access to Medicare plans have health consequences Penn LDI

• Overcoming challenges to providing medications for opioid use disorder Penn LDI

• Effect of nudges to clinicians, patients, or both to increase statin prescribing Penn LDI research brief

• ‘A good cause’ — Perspectives on the soda tax from low-income parents Penn LDI

• Q&A: Ravi Parikh on Medicare cost-saving programs Penn LDI

• Cash payments linked to improved HIV prevention and outcomes Penn LDI

• Economic impact of rural hospital closures Penn LDI

• Nursing home value-based program needs redesign to support Biden goals Penn LDI

• Volkswagen emissions scandal affected infant and child health Penn LDI

• Lessons from a global hospital budget system Penn LDI

• Can telemedicine be equitable? Penn LDI

• Busting myths about the Asian American “model minority” Penn LDI

• Improving clinical decisions through social networks Penn LDI

• Machine learning improved Greece’s border screening for COVID-19 Penn LDI

• Stem-cell culture moves to the third dimension Nature Technology feature

• For Women’s History Month: Q&A with scientific leaders Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute News

• What’s new in cannabis research? Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute News

• Overcoming undervaccination Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute News

• Research roundup on natural language processing and machine learning Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute News

• What’s the cost of mental health integration? Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute News

• Democratizing cryo-EM: Broadening access to an expanding field Science Technology Feature

• Beyond CRISPR: What’s current and upcoming in genome editing Science Technology Feature

• For scientific impact, open the borders Nordic Life Science

• Five days, five science plays The Scientist

• Giraffe diplomacy The Scientist

• Community science: Not just a hobby Science Careers

• Beyond government grants: Widening your funding net Science Careers

• Cancer genomics and immunotherapy: Opportunities at the intersection Science Careers

• The scientific swerve: Changing your research focus Science Careers

• Five reasons to leave your science bubble Science Careers

• Top employers: Breakthroughs, impact, and purpose Science Careers

• Top employers embrace change based on a stable foundation Science Careers

• Top employers 2017: High marks for innovation, long-term vision, and social responsibility Science Careers

• A scientist's guide to social media Science Careers

• To be an effective educator, get active Science Careers

• New tools for measuring academic performance Science Careers

• Business principles for basic researchers Science Careers

• Multicultural relationships: working across cultures and countries Science Careers

• Multicultural relationships: working across industries Science Careers

• Responsibly conducting research Science Careers

• Five steps to a successful sabbatical Science Careers

• Diversity: promoting new perspectives Science Careers

• Navigating collaborative grant research Science Careers

• Systems biology and bioinformatics: something for everyone Science Careers

• Denmark: making global connections Science Careers

• European Regional Focus: On the Horizon Science Careers

• Focus on China: Big science in a big country Science Careers

• Interview about science in China for China Science Daily

• Up in the sky—It's super-enhancers! Biotechniques

• In cancer, softer is deadlier BioTechniques

• Proteins never act alone BioTechniques

• Transcriptomics today: microarrays, RNA-seq, and more Science Life Science Technologies

• What's next in 'omics: the metabolome Science Life Science Technologies

• B cells in the immunotherapy spotlight (ereader version) Nordic Life Science

• New findings about the gut microbiome in infants and children Nordic Life Science

• Heartwarming: Spring news from SWEDEHEART (pdf) Nordic Life Science

• Drug target BAFF is regulated by testosterone Nordic Life Science

• Could chocolate lower risk of a heart condition? Nordic Life Science

• Advances in antibiotics from New Drugs 4 Bad Bugs Nordic Life Science

• Boosting CHO cell production with a systems approach Nordic Life Science 

• Spinning silk without the spiders Nordic Life Science

• Norwegian scientists link common medicines to Parkinson's risk Nordic Life Science

• A new avenue for Huntington therapy Nordic Life Science

• Y chromosome loss links to cancer and Alzheimer's Nordic Life Science

• Making a malaria protein to kill cancer cells Nordic Life Science

• Finding global biodiversity in your town Nordic Life Science

• Of chickens and men Nordic Life Science

• Catching an enzyme in the act of catalysis Nordic Life Science

• The undervalued endocrine system Nordic Life Science

• The epigenetic effects of exercise Nordic Life Science

• Why your dog loves sweets Nordic Life Science  (pdf)

• Lights, camera, action for life sciences Nordic Life Science (pdf)

• Gene swapping in gut bacteria spikes with inflammation Nordic Life Science (pdf)

• Medicine and technologies: green gold Science for L'Oreal Women in Science

• Microbiology: the universe in a single cell Science for L'Oreal Women in Science

• Virology: from the invisible to the global Science for L'Oreal Women in Science

• The world is your lab on a postdoc or sabbatical abroad Science for L'Oreal Women in Science

• Innovation in Japan Science Supplement

• A video guide to freelance science writing and editing ibiology.org

• Essential Lens (writer for science collections) Annenberg Learner

• From pond scum to jet fuel Renewable Energy World

• Institute of Molecular Biology celebrates 50 years ASBMB Today

• Are boys better at math than girls? Research Penn State

• What can we learn from Neanderthal DNA? Research Penn State

• Will algae become a fuel source? Research Penn State

• What's a heritage turkey? Research Penn State

• Does year-round schooling work? Research Penn State

• The interdependence, interconnection and influence of the immune system (page 4) Science Supplement

• The incredible journey High Country News

• Unbiased health research reviews from the Cochrane Collaboration Medicon Valley (pdf)

• A challenge from oncologists: smaller, targeted clinical trials Medicon Valley (pdf)

• Integromics: the next step for systems biology Medicon Valley (pdf)

• A new look at the oldest organelle Medicon Valley (pdf)

• Science scepticism as a resource Medicon Valley (pdf)

• A new president brings a new attitude towards science Medicon Valley (pdf)

• How to navigate the EU grant system Medicon Valley (pdf)

• We are all biologists LifeSciences Insights (pdf)