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Schools, pediatricians look to make up lost ground on non-covid vaccinations

Melissa Blatzer was determined to get her three children caught up on their routine immunizations on a recent Saturday morning at a walk-in clinic in this Denver suburb. It had been about a year since the kids' last shots, a delay Blatzer chalked up to the pandemic.

18 Nov 2021

California plans for a post-roe world as abortion access shrinks elsewhere

With access to abortion at stake across America, California is preparing to become the nation's abortion provider.

17 Nov 2021

Evaluation of COVID-19 infection risk during US spring semester in-person teaching

The main objective of the study was to determine the rates of in-person schooling and understand the school-based mitigation measures that were modified over the semester.

26 Oct 2021

Study finds increase in cannabis use by pregnant women during the pandemic

A Kaiser Permanente analysis of more than 100,000 pregnancies in Northern California finds a 25% increase in the rate of cannabis use early in pregnancy after the pandemic began in spring 2020.

27 Sep 2021

Research explores the role of cameras in employee fatigue during virtual meetings

More than a year after the pandemic resulted in many employees shifting to remote work, virtual meetings have become a familiar part of daily life. Along with that may come "Zoom fatigue" – a feeling of being drained and lacking energy following a day of virtual meetings.

31 Aug 2021

UCR researchers gauge social responsibility in reducing COVID-19 spread

Uncertainty and anxiety generated by the COVID-19 pandemic motivated social psychologist Evelyn Vázquez at the University of California, Riverside, to collaborate with UCR Healthy Campus on a study to identify safety measures and public health messaging that reduce the spread of the coronavirus within campus communities.

24 Aug 2021

School or ‘Russian roulette’? Amid delta variant and lax mask rules, some parents see no difference

The child had just started kindergarten. Or, as her mother called it, "Russian roulette." That’s because her school district in Grand Junction, Colorado, experienced one of the nation's first delta-variant outbreaks last spring, and now school officials have loosened the rules meant to protect against covid-19.

20 Aug 2021

Long drives, air travel, exhausting waits: What abortion requires in the South

Just a quick walk through the parking lot of Choices-Memphis Center for Reproductive Health in this legendary music mecca speaks volumes about access to abortion in the American South.

3 Aug 2021

Study examines children's emotional wellbeing throughout COVID-19 pandemic

A new study, released as a preprint on the medRxiv* server, reports the effects of such limited interactions on the emotional health of very young children, as reported by closely involved parents.

8 Jul 2021

Black and Hispanic Americans suffer most in biggest US decline in life expectancy since WWII

Although James Toussaint has never had covid, the pandemic is taking a profound toll on his health.

24 Jun 2021

Children with child protection concerns are more likely to die before they their 16th birthday

Children with documented child protection concerns are four times as likely to die before they reach their 16th birthday, according to confronting new research from the University of South Australia.

11 Jun 2021

Reduced birth rates during early pandemic are predicted to rebound soon

A different type of surge may be on the way more than a year into the pandemic - a baby surge.The COVID-19 shutdown initially seemed to hit pause on pregnancy and birth rates, new research from one major hospital system suggests, but that trend is quickly reversing.

4 Jun 2021

Many new moms get kicked off Medicaid 2 months after giving birth. Illinois will change that.

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in which the maternal death rate has been rising. Each year, about 700 deaths are due to pregnancy, childbirth or subsequent complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

3 Jun 2021

No-cancel culture: How telehealth is making it easier to keep that therapy session

When the covid-19 pandemic forced behavioral health providers to stop seeing patients in person and instead hold therapy sessions remotely, the switch produced an unintended, positive consequence: Fewer patients skipped appointments.

24 May 2021

5 things to know about health care changes in Montana

The 2021 Montana legislative session will be remembered as one of the state's most consequential as a Republican-led legislature and governor's office passed new laws restricting abortions, lowering taxes and regulating marijuana.

7 May 2021

Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How big tech undermines California’s public health system.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America — routinely outsourcing life-or-death public health duties to his allies in the private sector.

6 May 2021

Democrats disagree about how to spend potential prescription drug windfall

One of the few surprises in President Joe Biden's social safety-net proposal, the American Families Plan, was something that didn't make it into the final version: any mention of reining in the price of prescription drugs.

4 May 2021

A ‘dose of hope’? Fact-checking President Joe Biden’s first speech to Congress

In his first speech before Congress, President Joe Biden argued it was time to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a historic opportunity to expand government for the benefit of a wider range of Americans, urging investments in jobs, climate change, child care, infrastructure and more.

29 Apr 2021

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

In March 2020, just weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more Black and brown patients than whites. For Latinos, there was an additional warning sign: language.

27 Apr 2021

Study: Women at high risk of breast cancer face financial barriers to care

Women at high risk of breast cancer face cost-associated barriers to care even when they have health insurance, a new study has found.

21 Apr 2021