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Uninsured Rate Rises to 12.3 Percent

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. adults without health insurance is up nearly 3.5 million this year, as rising premiums and political turmoil over “Obamacare” undermine coverage gains that drove the nation’s uninsured rate to a historic low. That finding is based on the latest installment of a major survey, released Friday. The Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being […]

October 23, 2017

Harvard Will Host Webcast Forum on Discrimination

BOSTON — The Harvard School of Public Health is holding a discussion on discrimination in America. The discussion to be webcast at noon on Tuesday (Oct. 24) is part of the school’s Forum series and will focus on the African-American experience with discrimination in everyday life. (12 p.m.-1 p.m. ET ForumHSPH.org https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/discrimination-in-america/ ) It is […]

October 23, 2017

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Democrats Reject White House Demands for Health Deal

WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats rejected White House demands Friday to add provisions weakening the Obama health care law to a bipartisan deal on steadying unsettled insurance markets. The compromise already faced an uphill path and this was the latest blow. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Trump administration was involved in the […]

October 23, 2017

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Scouts Kick Out Child Who Questioned Politician on Guns, Race and Health

DENVER — A Cub Scout was kicked out of his den after he questioned a Colorado state lawmaker about her position on gun control and previous comments she made about African-Americans’ health and eating fried chicken. It was the latest political flashpoint for the Boy Scouts after President Donald Trump used his speech at the […]

October 23, 2017

Gender Disparities in Medicine

In the era of booming feminism whereby women demand rightful recognition in a wide array of aspects, the field of medicine has to face the facts. Until roughly two decades ago, aside from differences in reproductive systems, the male body has been the universal model for anatomy – as there was little knowledge that gender […]

October 18, 2017

How Birth Control Order Affects Women’s Health

Trump’s birth control order, announced on Friday, is devastating news. Previously, under a mandate from the Affordable Care Act, most employers were required to provide their employees with birth control coverage without copayments. On Friday, Trump rolled back that mandate. Now the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor will make it easier […]

October 18, 2017

Program Supports Women of Color Who Breastfeed

When Angela Mercado gave birth to her daughter nine weeks ago, she set the intention of breastfeeding for one year – a decision she felt confident in after meeting that goal with her son, now 3. Mercado gave birth to her first child in Germany during a military deployment. She recalled receiving advice from fellow […]

October 18, 2017

D.C. Residents Protest Food Deserts

For long-time Ward 8 resident Delois McNeal, 70, the weekly task of restocking her refrigerator is a challenge. “I have to walk across the street to catch the W3 bus,” McNeal said. “It’s a shuttle bus that runs once every half an hour. If you miss that, you have to wait another half an hour […]

October 18, 2017

Indian Health Deal Goes to Man Linked to Accusations

A company chosen to potentially operate emergency departments at four Native American hospitals in the Great Plains is led by a man whose former company paid $10 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs. John Shufeldt is the chief executive officer and chief medical officer of Tribal […]

October 18, 2017

Senator Offers Bill to Repeal Opioid Law

Legislation introduced by a top Senate Democrat would repeal an Obama-era bill that critics say has dramatically restricted the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on opioid distributors suspected of wrongdoing. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said her legislation is being […]

October 18, 2017

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Hurricane Exposed “Inequalities and Injustices”

In rural and impoverished areas of Puerto Rico, a new day means a new search for food and safe water as the humanitarian crisis there continues to escalate. More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria, more than a quarter of homes in the U.S. territory lack clean water, about 85 percent are without electricity, and […]

October 18, 2017

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Trump Backs Away from Deal on Obamacare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan deal from two U.S. senators to stabilize Obamacare by restoring subsidies to health insurers ran into trouble on Wednesday with President Donald Trump sending mixed signals and the speaker of the House indicating no interest in taking it up. The deal announced on Tuesday by Republican Lamar Alexander and Democrat […]

October 18, 2017

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Warped Idea of Freedoms

The week began with the biggest gun massacre by a single person in American history. Fifty-eight more families know the shock and trauma that goes with a loved one dying in a hail of bullets. Over five hundred people were injured, and join the thousands whose lives will never really be the same. Tuesday was […]

October 16, 2017

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DACA Nursing Students Can’t Get Licenses

At least two Arkansas nursing colleges have informed current students who received federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections that they cannot obtain state professional licenses because of their legal status, officials said Friday. Read More

October 16, 2017

Poor and Minority People Have Worse Home Health Care Outcomes

Home health is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Medicare, and the setting of a new federal value-based payment program, yet little is known about disparities in clinical outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries receiving home health care. We found that beneficiaries who were poor or Black had worse clinical outcomes in home health care than their […]

October 16, 2017

Charts: The Flaw in the Birth Control Rule

On Friday, the Trump administration issued new rules that allow a wide range of employers and insurers to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s provision that grants women contraceptives without additional payments. The move may appeal to social conservatives who object to contraception, but is it a good idea from a medical perspective? Read […]

October 16, 2017

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Research Looks at Why Alzheimer’s Strikes Earlier Among Hispanics

Investigators at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) in Fort Worth want to understand why people of Hispanic descent develop cognitive loss and Alzheimer’s disease earlier than non-Hispanics. Their new study, funded by a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, aims to add knowledge on the early events that cause […]

October 16, 2017

NIH Completes Atlas of DNA Distinctions

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have completed a detailed atlas documenting the stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression – a key way in which a person’s genome gives rise to an observable trait, like hair color or disease risk. This atlas is a critical resource for the scientific community interested […]

October 16, 2017