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Community-based clinics and clinicians play key role in reshaping LGBT mental health care

New research reveals that community-based clinics and clinicians play an essential role in reshaping both mental health care for LGBT people and broader attitudes about sexuality and gender.

25 Nov 2019

Can women adapt to climate change?

A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on November 25, 2019, says that women may be unable to change their mode of survival to adapt to climate change and resulting alterations in socioeconomic and cultural conditions. The factors responsible for this difficulty may include migration of male family members and unfavourable working conditions, abetted by governmental failure to support them, or poverty.

25 Nov 2019

Environmental stress weakens women's ability to adapt to climate change

New research led by the University of East Anglia suggests that male migration and poor working conditions for women combine with institutional failure or poverty to hamper women's ability to adapt to climate variability and change in Asia and Africa.

25 Nov 2019

UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Prominent doctors at UVA Health System are expressing public outrage at their employer’s practices to collect unpaid medical debt from its patients.

23 Nov 2019

Excellent mental health for 68% of Indigenous people living off reserve in Canada

Two-thirds (68%) of Indigenous people living off reserve in Canada have excellent mental health, according to a nationally representative study conducted by the University of Toronto and Algoma University.

21 Nov 2019

Medi-Cal to expand eligibility to young undocumented adults. But will they enroll?

Starting in January, young adults can sign up for California's Medicaid program regardless of immigration status.

21 Nov 2019

Skipping breakfast affects academic performance

Children often hear their parents say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It fuels the body for a long day’s work or school. That adage is true as a new study shows that skipping breakfast is tied to lower scores in high school performance tests.

20 Nov 2019

Nurse home visiting programs provide long-term benefits for infants, first-time mothers

Home visits by nurses to check on infants and first-time mothers offer learning benefits for the children and savings in the cost of public welfare programs, according to new research published in December 2019 issue of the journal Pediatrics.

20 Nov 2019

Students who rarely ate breakfast achieve lower GCSE grades

Students who rarely ate breakfast on school days achieved lower GCSE grades than those who ate breakfast frequently, according to a new study in Yorkshire.

20 Nov 2019

100-year old insight shows impact of snacks on the waistline

In 1919, the First World War was just over, and people in America were beginning to revel in the unaccustomed luxuries of sugar, flour, butter and eggs after the war restrictions. Naturally, candy and cake consumption shot up, with people freely snacking on these sweet foods in between meals. Just a bite here and there, nothing much – so it was believed that the added calories would fade into relative insignificance.

19 Nov 2019

Patients treated at NCI-designated centers more likely to receive high-cost lung cancer drugs

Genetically targeted drugs and immunotherapies are transforming the way we treat many forms of lung cancer.

19 Nov 2019

Six world-class research teams to focus towards new frontiers in metabolism

The Azrieli Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the International Development Research Centre, and the Israel Science Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of the Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program's 5th call for proposals.

18 Nov 2019

Research looks at the influence of online platforms on rising illegal drug epidemic

New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science looks at the influence online platforms have on the rising illegal drug epidemic. This study shows drug abuse treatment admissions and overdose deaths have increased since the founding of Craigslist.

18 Nov 2019

Study supports positive associations with mother-child bonding experiences during and after pregnancy

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, reports that home-visiting by trained community workers during and after pregnancy can improve mother-child interactions in the first years of life.

14 Nov 2019

Using AI to improve psychiatric care

A new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors to diagnose the mental health of patients with speed and accuracy. The new app designed for mobiles has been developed to improve patient monitoring using cues picked up from their speech, and is based on machine-learning tools.

13 Nov 2019

Caring for socially complex patients: Perspectives and suggestions

High-need high-cost patients, many of whom are experiencing poverty, use a large portion of health care resources.

12 Nov 2019

Affordable Care Act improves insurance coverage for people with HIV, cancer

A recent study reveals that, for people living with both HIV and cancer (PLWHC), implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved insurance coverage, both in states that expanded Medicaid coverage and those that did not.

11 Nov 2019

Higher risk for hospitalization among dialysis patients in communities with more Black residents

Patients with kidney failure who receive hemodialysis at US clinics located in residential areas with a high percentage of Black residents are more likely to be hospitalized than those who receive hemodialysis in communities with a lower percentage of Black residents.

10 Nov 2019

Diet meant to improve human and planetary health is too costly for.6 billion people

A new study estimates that a diet meant to improve both human and planetary health would be unaffordable for at least 1.58 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

8 Nov 2019

Multidisciplinary program in conflict zone improves childhood nutrition

A study led by a researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that a multidisciplinary program within a conflict zone in Armenia was successful in improving several measures of childhood nutrition. Results appear in the journal Public Health Nutrition.

7 Nov 2019

Poverty News and Research

Community-based clinics and clinicians play key role in reshaping LGBT mental health care

Can women adapt to climate change?

Environmental stress weakens women's ability to adapt to climate change

UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Excellent mental health for 68% of Indigenous people living off reserve in Canada

Medi-Cal to expand eligibility to young undocumented adults. But will they enroll?

Skipping breakfast affects academic performance

Nurse home visiting programs provide long-term benefits for infants, first-time mothers

Students who rarely ate breakfast achieve lower GCSE grades

100-year old insight shows impact of snacks on the waistline

Patients treated at NCI-designated centers more likely to receive high-cost lung cancer drugs

Six world-class research teams to focus towards new frontiers in metabolism

Research looks at the influence of online platforms on rising illegal drug epidemic

Study supports positive associations with mother-child bonding experiences during and after pregnancy

Using AI to improve psychiatric care

Caring for socially complex patients: Perspectives and suggestions

Affordable Care Act improves insurance coverage for people with HIV, cancer

Higher risk for hospitalization among dialysis patients in communities with more Black residents

Diet meant to improve human and planetary health is too costly for.6 billion people

Multidisciplinary program in conflict zone improves childhood nutrition

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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