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ACA ruling creates new anxieties for consumers and the health-care industry
The ruling by a federal judge in Texas striking down the Affordable Care Act has injected a powerful wave of uncertainty about recent changes woven into the U.S. health-care system that touch nearly all Americans and the industry that makes up one-sixth of the economy. The opinion, if upheld on appeal, would upend the health […]
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Dense Social Networks Inhibit HIV Disparities Among Young Gay Black Men
New research finds dense social networks play a major role in the wide HIV risk disparity between young white men who have sex with men and their black peers. Senior author Brian Mustanski, PhD, director of Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, told MD Magazine® it all has to do […]
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Transforming Transgender Care
When Perry Cohen experienced an urgent health concern earlier this year, his town’s only care provider who specializes in working with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) patients wasn’t available to see him. He went to a different doctor, then to a second. Both times, when the providers learned that Cohen is transgender, “their […]
Disparities
How Racism Affects Your Health as a Black American
Writer George Johnson has watched his grandmother fight multiple bouts of cancers, as well as diabetes and other health conditions throughout her life. Health challenges have always played a large role in his family. But in his recent VICE Magazine story, Johnson explains that this is not simply because of bad luck. Rather, it may […]
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State wants to launch a full-blown study of health risks of dust blowing from Point of Mountain
The Utah Health Department has strongly urged Lehi not to base any policy decisions on the state’s hastily completed and far-from-conclusive recent study of possible health risks from blowing dust from construction and mining at the Point of the Mountain. A letter from Sam LeFevre, manager of the state’s environmental epidemiology program, said his agency […]
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Report on racial disparity sparks discussion about media and race
On Monday, News 5 reported on newly-released data from the Center for Community Solutions, a Cleveland-based nonpartisan think tank that focuses on solutions to health, social and economic issues. The conclusion? It is more challenging to be black in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County when it comes to health, economics, criminal justice, infant mortality and more. […]
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Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health Care
Ever-evolving health care technologies are a classic example of a double-edged sword. On one side, they hold the promise of simultaneously improving patient outcomes and physicians’ professional satisfaction. On the other, they threaten to exacerbate some of the disparities and inequalities found throughout our health care system. Consider telemedicine. A driving force behind this technology […]
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Obama, Democrats Make Last Push for Obamacare Sign-ups Amid Trump Cuts in ad Budget
Former President Barack Obama and other high-profile Democrats are on a social media blitz to remind people to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act before the open enrollment period ends in most states on Saturday. Read More
Nursing
Staffing Levels, Culture Challenge Quality of Nursing Home Care
In 2018, the state took the unusual step of issuing a consent order requiring a New Haven nursing home to hire an independent nurse consultant and implement minimum staffing ratios after inspections at the facility uncovered numerous lapses in care and safety violations. Read More
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Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health Care are ‘Persistent’
In 2009, the body that accredits medical schools issued a new requirement: All medical schools must implement policies that help them attract and retain more diverse students. Failure to do so can lead to citations from this body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and can affect their status as accredited institutions. This effort appears […]
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Tech Firms Enter the Business of Campus Mental Health Care
At many college counseling centers therapists are overwhelmed and students are forced to wait weeks for an appointment, even as more of them seek help for anxiety, depression, and sleep and eating disorders. Christie Campus Health, a Lexington start-up that will be launched Wednesday, thinks it has a solution: technology. Read More
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Accepting Alzheimer’s, One Lost Memory at a Time
With a slow moving disease like Alzheimer’s, there’s still time for doubt. Perhaps the diagnosis is wrong and the memory holes and struggle for words are just normal aging. Deep in your psyche, there’s still a little spark of hope. Read More
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