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Slow Roll Out, Fine Print for New Health Care Options

President Donald Trump says insurers are “going wild” about his new health care options and “millions and millions” of people will be signing up. But insurance companies say it will take time to design new plans and get approval from state regulators, and two major industry groups have actually expressed concern about potential downsides for […]

Politics and Birth Control

Political protesters may shout and hold signs telling the U.S. government to “get your laws off my body,” but the current presidential administration is trying to do just the opposite. While women’s contraception has until recently been readily accessible and free of cost under most healthcare plans through the Affordable Care Act, implemented when Democrat […]

Who’s Still Smoking and Why

Smoking rates have plummeted in recent decades thanks to mass media campaigns, cigarette taxes and public bans, yet nearly 38 million Americans still light up regularly. The divide between who puffs and who passes on traditional tobacco cigarettes today is largely drawn by often overlapping factors such as income, education and geography. Disparities in these […]

Easing Toxic Stress in Children Prevents Long-Term Impact

Homelessness, neglect, malnutrition, or forced parent-child separation have long been known to cause toxic stress levels in childhood that harm developing brains and bodies. Two decades ago, the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and long-lasting health effects surfaced in a pivotal study. Now, clinicians and researchers are taking a deep dive into how the […]

How Bots Could Compromise Public Health

Headlines for months have railed about social media bots aiming to manipulate election votes. But similar digital devices and the forces behind them may be seeking to influence something even more personal: your health. Researchers estimate there are tens of millions of bots – automated accounts sometimes posed as real people – on Twitter, with […]

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Drug Makers Have High Hopes for Drug in Alzheimer’s Study

CHICAGO — Hopes are rising again for a drug to alter the course of Alzheimer’s disease after decades of failures. An experimental therapy slowed mental decline by 30 percent in patients who got the highest dose in a mid-stage study, and it removed much of the sticky plaque gumming up their brains, the drug’s makers […]

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New York City Launches Initiative on Maternal Deaths

In response to alarming racial disparities, New York City announced a new initiative last week to reduce maternal deaths and complications among women of color. Under the new plan, the city will improve the data collection on maternal deaths and complications, fund implicit bias training for medical staff at private and public hospitals, and launch […]

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After Cardiac Arrest in Hospital, Blacks Show Poorer Outcomes

That health disparities exist between black and white patients during their hospital stays will come as no surprise to clinicians. New research on in-hospital cardiac arrest, however, shows that these differences in outcomes can persist for years, with black patients being more than 10% less likely to survive at 1, 3, and 5 years after […]

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Catholic Hospitals and Access

Almost as soon as President Trump took office, he began rolling back health care rules that had angered religious groups for much of the last decade. First, Trump signed an executive order declaring that his administration would protect religious freedom. Then, his administration ruled that health insurance plans offered by large employers don’t have to […]

Severe Bleeding Prompts Warnings About Synthetic Cannabinoids

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WFMY)– Several cases of severe bleeding following synthetic cannabinoid use have identified in North Carolina. A recent case of severe bleeding, in the Triad, has prompted state health officials to issue a warning to the public about the dangers of synthetic cannabinoids. Read More

Jewish Doctor, Removed from Duty, Apologizes for Posts on White Nationalist Sites

NEW YORK — A New York doctor says he is sorry for posting comments online supporting a white-only nation and armed racial conflict. Dr. Dov Bechhofer, a resident radiologist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was removed from duty this week after an anonymous article on the blogging site Medium identified him as an […]

AP-NORC Poll: 6 in 10 Latinos Face Barriers to Care

WASHINGTON — Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanic adults have had a difficult time communicating with a health care provider because of a language or cultural barrier, and when they do they often turn to outside sources for help, according to a new study conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey […]

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