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Section: Health
Blogs/Opinion
Stigma in Mental Health
“La ropa sucia se lava en casa.” “Dirty laundry is washed at home.” There are few challenges more vexing in health care marketing than the therapeutic areas of behavioral and mental health. Some would argue that chief among them is the social stigma associated with mental health — the cultural imperative to keep a patient […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
State Finds Obesity Disparity Growing
Money appears to be a strong separator between the lean and the obese in Minnesota, which has one of the nation’s widest economic gaps when it comes to excess weight gain. Minnesota ranked 42nd among states for its disparity, because the obesity rate of 28 percent for all adults in the state in 2016 bloated […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Guidelines Urge Care for Mothers After Birth
As mothers around the world marvel that Kate Middleton went home from the hospital mere hours after giving birth to her third child Monday, the largest group of women’s doctors in the U.S. is urging a major shift in the way physicians care for mothers of new babies. Instead of waiting six weeks for a […]
May 7, 2018
Policies
Flies Infest VA Operating Rooms
An undercover reporter wearing a hidden camera at West Lost Angeles VA found a multi-year fly infestation in operating rooms at the facility. Over 80 surgeries were canceled as a result. Investigative reporter David Goldstein wore a hidden camera during his three-month investigation into conditions at the facility’s conditions. He found hundreds of flytraps all […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Students Kickstart Project for Minority Healthcare
A group of Penn State students have started an effort to bring awareness of and encourage the use of health and wellness services among minority students on campus. A new component of HealthWorks, the Minority Health Initiative, was created to educate students on the resources available to them by HealthWorks and to provide them with […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Trump to Appoint Dr. Oz to Fitness Panel
The Trump administration announced Friday that the president would appoint 1986 Wharton MBA and School of Medicine graduate Mehmet Oz of “The Dr. Oz Show” to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Known often as “Dr. Oz,” Oz has entered into public discourse on numerous occasions as a result of controversial statements and […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Plan May Make it Harder to Get Healthcare for Disabled
Can you imagine going to your doctor’s office and not being able to get on the examination table because it is too high? Or not being weighed throughout your entire pregnancy because your primary care physician does not have a wheelchair-accessible scale? Unfortunately, these examples are the stark reality for people with disabilities. Notwithstanding advancements […]
May 7, 2018
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 […]
May 7, 2018
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.
May 3, 2018
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. […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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 […]
May 2, 2018
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. […]
April 30, 2018
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