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Assessing the Relationship Between Gun Violence and Health Equity
Gun violence has become a crucial national problem that negatively affects health equity in the United States. The American Medical Association has declared U.S. gun violence a public health crisis requiring a comprehensive public health response and solution.
Blogs/Opinion
Short-Term Policies
Short-term health insurance is sometimes scoffed at as “sham insurance.” But to those who turn to it in need, this kind of insurance offers vital protection from unexpected medical costs. The Trump administration’s plan to extend how long it lasts makes sense. Short-term plans offer temporary coverage for many of the same things standard health […]
Disparities
Venues Accommodate for Sensory Overload
NEW ORLEANS — A nonprofit organization that helps open doors for people with autism has certified the aquarium and zoo in New Orleans as sensory inclusive. The Aquarium of the Americas is the first aquarium to get such certification, and the Audubon Zoo is among the first 10 zoos, according to KultureCity, based in Birmingham, […]
Disparities
Woman Sentenced Over Buttocks Injection
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California woman who performed an illegal buttocks enhancement that sent a woman to the hospital has been sentenced to two years in prison. Ana Hernandez of Monterey Park was sentenced Monday for receiving an adulterated medical product. She also was ordered to pay $125,000 in fines and restitution to the […]
Disparities
Studies Offer Promise for Fighting Childhood Cancers
Each year, more than 15,000 American children and teenagers will be diagnosed with cancer. While great progress has been made in treating many types of childhood cancer, it remains the leading cause of disease-related death among kids who make it past infancy in the United States [1]. One reason for that sobering reality is our […]
Policies
Efforts to Revive Mandate Stall
Congress approved zeroing out the individual mandate penalty in December after a year of failed efforts to repeal the ACA. The individual mandate was considered one of the most unpopular part of the ACA. Some Americans were upset at the idea of being told what to do, and they especially don’t like getting whacked with […]
Policies
Washington State Requires Insurers to Cover Abortion
The Washington state Senate passed a bill Saturday mandating that insurance companies pay for abortions and contraceptive drugs and procedures for maternity care plans. The state legislature passed Senate Bill 6219 in a 27 to 22 vote Saturday, according to KIRO7. The measure insists that any company who provides maternity care must also provide coverage for women who seek […]
Policies
U.S. Approves Medicaid Work Rule for Arkansas
On Monday, the nation’s top Medicaid official traveled to Little Rock to announce federal approval of a measure long sought by Governor Hutchinson: a work requirement for beneficiaries of Arkansas Works, the program providing health insurance to 285,000 low-income Arkansans under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for […]
Disparities
Heavy Drinkers at Greatest Risk for Dementia
Hot on the heels of headlines linking alcohol consumption with longer life comes new research that casts a much more sobering light on drinking. According to an analysis of more than 1 million people—the largest study of its kind to date—scientists say that heavy alcohol use is the biggest modifiable risk factor for dementia, especially early-onset forms […]
Blogs/Opinion
Trump Doesn’t Care
Republicans in Washington are so far proving they can’t be taken seriously to improve the nation’s health or health care system. After first submitting a budget that aims to force austerity on Medicaid and Medicare recipients to pay for last year’s tax cuts that are going largely to corporations and the wealthy, the Trump administration has now followed […]
Nursing
Nurse Awarded $3.8M for Racial Harassment
HONOLULU — A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox. A jury awarded Ellen Harris, a former Queen’s Medical Center nurse, $630,000 in general damages and $3.2 million in punitive damages after finding […]
Policies
California Poll: Without Penalty, 1 in 5 Would Skip Insurance
Without the threat of a tax penalty, one in five Californians would not have signed up for health insurance this year, Harvard University researchers discovered as a part of a survey released Thursday. One in five equates to roughly 378,000 state residents, said Dr. John Hsu, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard […]
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