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Health: Page 194
Disparities
Med School Works on Bias to End Disparities
In partnership with the Worcester community, researchers at UMass Medical School are launching an intervention to reduce health disparities in hypertension control among minority and lower socioeconomic status patients by training health care providers to be more conscious of their own implicit biases while treating them. Read More
Disparities
Study: ‘Fat but Fit” Is a Myth
The idea that you can be overweight or obese yet healthy — if factors such as your blood sugar, blood pressure or cholesterol levels are normal — is a myth, according to a new study, and messaging around this should be changed. Carrying those extra pounds can increase risk of coronary heart disease by up […]
Policies
Plan to Harm Obamacare Could Backfire
Don’t tell President Trump, but cutting off extra Obamacare subsidies to insurers could actually improve – not ignite – the very insurance marketplaces he wants to undermine. Weirdly enough, slightly more people – not fewer — could receive health insurance by 2020 were the president to terminate the controversial cost-sharing payments, otherwise known as CSRs, […]
Disparities
Data Reveal Disparities in Prescribing Opioids
For most of the last decade, this once thriving city had the highest unemployment rate in Virginia. Its disability and poverty rates are consistently double the state average, and its population is aging. In July, the former textile and furniture manufacturing mecca earned another dubious distinction. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Other News
Trump Halts Study of Health Impact of Mining
Outrage has followed the Trump administration’s decision late last week to put the brakes on a study into the health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said Monday it received a letter from the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ordering […]
Other News
Racist Beauty Standards Pose Chemical Hazards
Yet another sign of racism and inequality comes to you from your cosmetic cabinet. According to a new research published by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, women of color have higher concentrations of beauty product-related chemicals in their bodies than white women do. “And water is wet,” you might be inclined to say […]
Blogs/Opinion
Not Such Good News
We recently used this space to praise Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, which received an award for delivering outstanding patient services. The national Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award was no big surprise for local residents — Valley Cottage Hospital is known for its top-quality patient services — but the Press Ganey honor puts the […]
Disparities
Environmental Groups Sue Trump Over Lax Rules
Earthjustice — on behalf of the Environmental Working Group and organizations representing consumers, people from low-income communities of color, Alaska Natives, parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities, workers, and scientists — has brought two suits against the Trump administration for weakening key rules establishing how the Environmental Protection Agency will regulate toxic chemicals […]
Disparities
Federal Panel Studying Illnesses, Link to Strip Mining
A panel studying the potential link between surface mining and health problems in Appalachia plans meetings in Kentucky to gather information. The committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will hold a town hall meeting in Hazard on Aug. 21 to gain “insights and information” from people in the area, according to […]
Disparities
A Drink a Day Is Healthy. More? Not So Much
Having a glass of wine or beer with dinner tonight may be good for you, according to a new study. Researchers found women who had up to one drink a day and men who averaged up to two a day had a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Dr. Jon LaPook explains. Read More
Disparities
Study Links Noise Pollution, Social Inequity
Like air pollutants and exposure to hazardous waste, noise pollution is not distributed evenly, a new study led by campus researchers found. The study is the first to assess social inequalities, such as racial disparities, in noise pollution across the United States. The research, published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal July 25, was supported […]
Other News
Deadline Extended for Insurers
The Trump administration is giving insurance companies an extra three weeks to decide whether to offer insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act markets, and how much to charge. The extension comes as insurance companies wait for President Trump to decide whether he will continue to make payments to insurance companies that are called for […]
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