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Scientist Map Socioeconomic Data

The Neighborhood Atlas(link is external), a new tool to help researchers visualize socioeconomic data at the community level is now available. This online platform allows for easily ranking and mapping neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage. Seeing a neighborhood’s socioeconomic measures, such as income, education, employment and housing quality, may provide clues to the effects of those […]

Forecast for Obamacare: More Insurers, Higher Prices

Health insurers are planning to expand in Obamacare amid rising profits, but the trend is coming at the expense of higher premiums for certain customers. Premiums are expected to rise by an average of 15 percent for customers whose incomes aren’t low enough to qualify them for subsidies, according to early estimates from Avalere Health. […]

EMTs Fired Over Facebook Comments about Native Americans

YAKIMA, Wash. — A private ambulance company says two Washington state employees accused of making derogatory comments about Native Americans on Facebook are no longer working there. A spokeswoman with American Medical Response, Tawnya Silloway, said in an email Thursday night that two are out. The employees were placed on unpaid leave Tuesday as AMR […]

Meharry Lays Off 55

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the largest and oldest historically-black medical colleges in the nation has laid off 55 employees in Tennessee. The Tennesseean reports Meharry Medical College confirmed Thursday that it let go about 6.5 percent of its workforce this week. Meharry President James Hildreth announced the layoffs in a letter Wednesday and said […]

Black Woman Becomes President of Medical Association

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Dr. Patrice Harris is a Bluefield native, a West Virginia University graduate, and she is now the first African-American woman elected as president of the American Medical Association. Harris will become the 174th president of the AMA in June 2019, and is now serving as president-elect. She was elected to the post […]

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Higher HIV Rates in Sub-Saharan Women Linked to British Colonialism

The likelihood that a woman in sub-Saharan Africa has HIV today is linked to whether her country was once colonized by Britain or a continental European country, according to a June 2018 studypublished in American Economic Review. Siwan Anderson, a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, hypothesized that “weaker marital property rights” in common law countries […]

Breastfeeding Zealots

Breastfeeding zealots really need to back off — especially when they work in the newborn ward of a hospital. After the birth of my daughter last summer, I spent my first several days in the hospital struggling to breastfeed. It really did not go well. And the entire experience would have been so much better […]

Sale of Off-Exchange Medical Plans Drop by Half

The number of health insurance plans sold outside of Obamacare’s exchanges fell by half in 2018, according to a study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Plans sold outside the exchanges fell from 8,700 in 2017 to about 4,000 in 2018. Eight states had no plans that were sold outside the exchanges in 2018, compared with five […]

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Aging LGBT Seniors Loom as Major Public Health Issue

LGBT people of all ages have experienced health inequalities, but researchers have begun to delve into the consequences of a lifetime of that inequity – and what happens to their health as they grow older. “They’ve been relatively invisible, undercounted and underserved,” said Dr. Karen Fredriksen Goldsen. “We’re talking about a major public health issue.” […]

Tribes Want to Close Loopholes in Violence Against Women Act

Four out of 5 Native American women experience violence in their lives. This is in a report by the National Congress of American Indians. The Violence Against Women Act gave tribes greater powers to prosecute such crimes, and it’s now up for reauthorization. But as Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards reports, tribes want to close […]

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Black Males Suffer Most Health Consequences

Minority males have the poorest health outlook of any Americans, a recently released report shows. The report, “Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic and Sexual Minority Boys and Men,” which focuses on males from underrepresented groups and non-heterosexual males, states that men from these groups are also more often targeted for hate crimes. The report was authored by […]

Court Upholds Travel Ban Healthcare Groups Opposed

A travel ban that was opposed by a healthcare industry that depends on foreign doctors and workers was upheld today by the Supreme Court. The justices voted 5-4 (PDF) that President Donald Trump acted within the law in imposing limits on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries. The president, shortly after taking office, implemented a […]

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