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Health: Page 147
Disparities
Black Patients in ICU with Heart Failure Less Likely to See Cardiologist
African-Americans Admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for heart failure are less likely than white patients to receive care by a cardiologist. “It is important to realize that here are racial disparities in American healthcare,” Dr. Khadija Breathett from the University of Arizona in Tuscon told Reuters Health. “In order to receive equal access […]
Health
Find Your Tribe and You Find Your Health and Success
Those we keep closest to us are a reflection of us and we, in some ways, become like them. Choose to spend the most time with those who mirror the best in you and inspire and encourage you to be better. They are your tribe.
Blogs/Opinion
Alfie’s Life
The baby Alfie Evans has died. Born in Liverpool with a degenerative brain condition, Alfie had been in a semi-vegetative state for over a year. Against his parents’ wishes, the hospital took Alfie off ventilation. The parents had wanted to move him to a Vatican hospital in Rome that would have kept him on life-support. […]
Disparities
Students of Color Asked to Describe Isolation
Director of the African American Knowledge Optimized for Mindfully Healthy Adolescents (AAKOMA) Project and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center Dr. Alfiee M. Breland-Noble gave a talk at the African, Latin, Asian and Native American (ALANA) Cultural Center entitled, “College, Stress and #Beychella” on Wednesday, April 18. Breland-Noble began her talk by […]
Disparities
Symposium Focuses on Equity in Cancer Care
The statistics can be daunting. Black men are roughly twice as likely to die of their prostate cancers and black women are 35 percent more likely to die from their breast cancers than both of their white counterparts, according to the National Cancer Institute. Cancer death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives increased from 1990 to […]
Policies
Rule Would Make Hospitals Post Prices Online
Hospitals may soon have to post their standard prices for patients online, under a proposed rule unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration. Also, the administration is seeking comments on how to stop so-called surprise billing — when patients are charged after unknowingly being seen by out-of-network providers — and how to give patients better information […]
Disparities
Health Official Says Disparities Demand Attention
In Washington, D.C., Howard Koh, MD, was known simply as “the ASH,” an acronym for his full title, assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But for a physician who had devoted his career to battling tobacco use, to suddenly be known as the ASH — even though the title […]
Disparities
Navajo Say the Trump Shift on Healthcare Violates Treaties
The Trump administration says Native Americans might need to get a job to keep their health care. But Navajo leaders say that policy defies their 150-year-old treaty rights. Three states have introduced a rule — and several more plan to — that says a person has to work or to be in school to receive […]
Disparities
Study: Gap in Early Death Rates Narrows for Blacks
Racial disparities when it comes to early deaths are narrowing in the U.S., according to a study published in PLOS ONE on Wednesday. Researchers credited reductions in years of life lost among black adults for the narrowing gap, in particular pointing to declining heart disease, HIV and cancer death rates—particularly among black adults in their 30s […]
Disparities
Incidence of Autism Rises, but Shows Signs of Leveling Off
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that while rates of autism in children in the United States continue to rise, some signs suggest things may be leveling off. The new statistical findings, from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, reflect data from more than 10,886 children. The results […]
Blogs/Opinion
The Big Idea
The American health care system is an expensive, sprawling mess. The Republican Party’s brightest idea for how to fix it? Make health insurance worse. Here’s what the GOP has in mind: Weakened protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Skimpier benefits that leave out coverage for important medical needs. Less protection from financial harm due to illness. […]
Disparities
Black in Medicine: The Importance of Representation
In 2016, I went to the emergency room due to my allergies and was told after an X-ray that I would be placed on isolation because of a mass visualized in one of my lungs and because I had taken a trip to Nigeria the previous summer. I had no symptoms, though, so both the […]
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