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Health: Page 154
Blogs/Opinion
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Kudos to tennis superstar extraordinaire Serena Williams for insisting on being heard relative to her recent medical needs. Though she has reached celebrity status and money is no object, she was forced to insist that her medical team listen to her and act accordingly. In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted as stating, “Of all the […]
Disparities
Canadian Experts Say Ibuprofen Could Stall Alzheimer’s
A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada’s most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen of the non-prescription NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) ibuprofen can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a […]
Policies
Institute Supports Conscience Rules in Healthcare
First Liberty Institute attorneys today submitted public comments on behalf of several religious ministries in support of new United States Health and Human Services (“HHS”) guidelines that ensure the protection of conscience rights for health care professionals. “Without conscience protections, health care professionals across America risk discrimination for refusing to perform, facilitate, or refer for procedures that […]
Policies
Why Take the Risk of Skipping Insurance?
In tiny Marion, North Carolina, the Buchanans decided that $1,800 a month was too much to pay for health insurance, and are going without it for the first time in their lives. In Harahan, one bend of the Mississippi river up from New Orleans, the Owenses looked at their doubling insurance premiums and decided no […]
Disparities
Learning Native Traditions Helps Soldiers Transition
Michael Carroll served 18 months in Iraq for the United States Army. After coming home in 2004, doctors found that he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Mental health experts say the disorder develops in some people who have experienced a shocking or dangerous event. Such persons may feel frightened even when they are […]
Policies
Insurance Spurs Increase in Sex-Change Surgery
When Gaines Blasdel decided in 2012 that he wanted surgery so his physical identity would match the male character he’d long had in his head, his health insurance wouldn’t cover it — not even student coverage at Hampshire College, which he admits with a laugh is the “social justice warrior capital of the world.” Blasdel […]
Policies
Mental Health Experts Condemn Transgender Ban
On Friday night, President Trump announced that he would once again attempt to ban transgender people from serving in the military, based on recommendations that their health concerns undermine military readiness. Since then, the nation’s two biggest mental health organizations have come forward to condemn that decision. The American Psychiatric Association responded Saturday with a statement from APA CEO […]
Disparities
Kids With Autism Less Likely to Be Vaccinated
Doctors say that there is no scientific evidence suggesting a link between vaccines that infants and young children receive in the first few years of life and the risk of autism, but that has not stopped parents from questioning the connection — and in some cases, forgoing vaccinations for their kids. In the latest study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers led […]
Blogs/Opinion
Executing Dealers
Vengeance is not a public health policy. But it’s implicit in a policy measure coming out of the White House, which would attempt to solve the opioid crisis with a plan that includes sentencing some high-intensity traffickers to death. It may feel good, and for some segment of the population, vengeance may even look good. […]
Disparities
Analysis Reveals Why Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children
The largest-ever whole-genome sequencing study of drug response in minority children has revealed new clues about why the front-line asthma drug albuterol does not work as well for African-American and Puerto Rican children as it does for European American or Mexican children. Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world, according to World […]
Disparities
R.I. Foundation Offers $28 M for Work on Disparities
The Rhode Island Foundation is offering $2.8 million in grants to nonprofit organizations to address heath disparities in communities around the state. The deadline to apply is April 2. “The foundation will give priority to proposals that bring together clinical organizations, community-based organizations and residents to improve the health of communities with high rates of illness, chronic […]
Disparities
2-Year-Old Has Rare ‘Vanishing Bone’ Disease
An Ottawa County boy is battling a disease so rare, less than 300 cases have been reported in the entire world. Two-year-old Leo Aguillon went to the doctor for pneumonia a couple weeks ago, but a chest x-ray and CT scan showed the unimaginable: half of the bones in his chest were gone. “They found […]
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