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Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Natalia D'Angelo got sick right after school started in August. She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County School System about 40 miles south of Atlanta and contracted covid-19.

24 Sep 2021

Low wages and pandemic gut staffing support for those with disabilities

Ernestine "Erma" Bryant likes her job, but the pay is a problem. She works in a caregiver role as a "direct support professional" in Tifton, Georgia, helping people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities with basic functions such as dressing, bathing and eating.

24 Sep 2021

A daily pill to treat covid could be just months away, scientists say

Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having trouble breathing, symptoms serious enough to send her to the emergency room.

24 Sep 2021

Researchers identify potential approach to eliminate race from equations to estimate kidney function

Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person's kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health disparities. The findings, reported September 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine, are expected to inform National Kidney Foundation–American Society of Nephrology Task Force guidelines on evaluating kidney function.

24 Sep 2021

New guidelines for improving maternal cardiovascular health before, during and after pregnancy

Thanks largely to the efforts of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, the American Heart Association recently announced recommendations for improving cardiovascular health outcomes in women before, during and after pregnancy.

24 Sep 2021

Community-based physical activity program could help diverse populations of cancer survivors

Breast cancer survivors who participated in Active Living After Cancer, an evidence-based 12-week group program, markedly increased their physical activity and ability to accomplish the basic pursuits of daily life, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported today in Cancer.

23 Sep 2021

UQ-led Centre of Research Excellence focuses on improving alcohol and drug treatment services

Increasing access to cost effective, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and drug use is the focus of a University of Queensland-led Centre of Research Excellence funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

23 Sep 2021

Insulin resistance linked to an increased risk of major depressive disorder

Stanford Medicine scientists have linked insulin resistance to an increased risk of developing major depressive disorder.

23 Sep 2021

California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions

As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state's 40 million residents.

23 Sep 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

Democrats in Congress and the White House are feverishly negotiating to pass as much of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda as they can agree on, even as Republicans who oppose much of the increased spending threaten to shut down the government and default on the nation's debt.

23 Sep 2021

Substantial differences in vaccination rates among immigrant health care workers in Norway

A new preprint examined the COVID-19 vaccination rates among HCWs in Norway, according to immigrant background.

23 Sep 2021

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Two of America's toughest problems can be tempered with one solution. The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is ill equipped to meet or even monitor.

23 Sep 2021

Democrats roll the dice on sweeping abortion rights bill — again

A newly conservative Supreme Court agreed to hear a case most assumed it would use to overrule the 1973 landmark abortion-rights ruling, Roe v. Wade. And Democrats on Capitol Hill, convinced the issue would play to their political favor, vowed to bring up legislation that would write abortion protections into federal law.

23 Sep 2021

Biosimilar drugs are cheaper than biologics. Are they similar enough to switch?

It took years for Elle Moxley to get a diagnosis that explained her crippling gastrointestinal pain, digestion problems, fatigue, and hot, red rashes.

23 Sep 2021

Discovery points toward a new strategy for treating Parkinson's disease

University of Utah Health scientists have identified a molecule that slows cells' production of alpha-synuclein, a protein that forms toxic aggregates in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases risk of developing pre-eclampsia, study finds

A newly published study found that women who contract COVID-19 during pregnancy are at significantly higher risk of developing pre-eclampsia, the leading cause of maternal and infant death worldwide.

22 Sep 2021

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources.

22 Sep 2021

People with neurologic conditions more likely to have had adverse childhood experiences

Adults with neurologic conditions are more likely than the general population to have had adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction, according to a study published in the September 22, 2021, online issue of Neurology Clinical Practice, an official journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

22 Sep 2021

Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ ever face the music?

Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that covid-19 "was a planned operation" and shared an article alleging that most people who got the covid vaccine would be dead by 2025.

22 Sep 2021

Public health experts ‘flabbergasted’ that Biden still hasn’t picked an FDA chief

President Joe Biden's failure to name someone to lead the Food and Drug Administration, more than 10 months after the election, has flummoxed public health experts who say it's baffling for the agency to be without a permanent leader during a national health crisis.

22 Sep 2021

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Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Low wages and pandemic gut staffing support for those with disabilities

A daily pill to treat covid could be just months away, scientists say

Researchers identify potential approach to eliminate race from equations to estimate kidney function

New guidelines for improving maternal cardiovascular health before, during and after pregnancy

Community-based physical activity program could help diverse populations of cancer survivors

UQ-led Centre of Research Excellence focuses on improving alcohol and drug treatment services

Insulin resistance linked to an increased risk of major depressive disorder

California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

Substantial differences in vaccination rates among immigrant health care workers in Norway

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Democrats roll the dice on sweeping abortion rights bill — again

Biosimilar drugs are cheaper than biologics. Are they similar enough to switch?

Discovery points toward a new strategy for treating Parkinson's disease

COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increases risk of developing pre-eclampsia, study finds

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

People with neurologic conditions more likely to have had adverse childhood experiences

Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ ever face the music?

Public health experts ‘flabbergasted’ that Biden still hasn’t picked an FDA chief

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