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New York joins local governments in erasing billions in medical debt

New York City pledged this week to pay down $2 billion worth of residents' medical debt. In doing so, it has come around to an innovation, started in the Midwest, that's ridding millions of Americans of health care debt.

25 Jan 2024

Education saves lives across all demographics, study reveals

Education saves lives regardless of age, sex, location, and social and demographic backgrounds. That's according to the latest and largest study of its kind published today in The Lancet Public Health.

23 Jan 2024

New screening tool helps doctors spot precarious employment

Precarious employment, defined by temporary contracts, unstable employment, or job insecurity, is increasingly common and is associated with inconsistent access to health insurance, lower incomes, and greater exposure to physical hazards and psychological stress.

22 Jan 2024

Insurance doesn’t always cover hearing aids for kids

Joyce Shen was devastated when doctors said her firstborn, Emory, hadn't passed her newborn hearing screening. Emory was diagnosed with profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears as an infant, meaning sounds are extremely muffled.

19 Jan 2024

In this Oklahoma town, most everyone knows someone who’s been sued by the hospital

It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall stack of debt collection lawsuits that McAlester Regional Medical Center recently brought to small-claims court in this Oklahoma farm community.

19 Jan 2024

Combined effect of poverty and inflammation on mortality is worse than expected from separate effects, study reports

Researchers investigated whether the combination of chronic inflammation and poverty synergistically increases the 15-year risk of mortality from all causes, heart disease, and cancer in American adults aged 40 and older.

18 Jan 2024

Chronic inflammation and poverty join forces to increase mortality risk

A new study led by a University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions researcher finds that people with chronic inflammation living in poverty have more than double the risk of dying from heart disease and nearly triple the risk of dying from cancer within the next 15 years.

16 Jan 2024

Medical community calls for unified action on climate and biodiversity crises as global health emergency

An editorial in BMC Public Health urges the United Nations and health professionals to declare the intertwined climate and biodiversity crisis as a global health emergency, emphasizing the need for integrated solutions to address these interdependent issues.

16 Jan 2024

Higher antioxidant intake linked to lower back pain risk in women, study finds

Study investigates the link between dietary antioxidant intake and low back pain, revealing that higher antioxidant levels, particularly selenium and zinc, may reduce the likelihood of low back pain in American women.

16 Jan 2024

Poverty may combine in a synergistic manner with chronic inflammation to reduce health, life expectancy

In the US, approximately 37.9 million people, or 11.4% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 2022.

16 Jan 2024

Mary Lou Retton’s explanation of health insurance takes some somersaults

Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton spoke out last week on the NBC "Today" show about what she said was a rare pneumonia that almost killed her and resulted in an expensive, monthlong hospital stay.

12 Jan 2024

A universal coronavirus vaccine could provide substantial health and economic benefits

What if scientists had developed a universal coronavirus vaccine in the years prior to 2020 so that it was available at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?

11 Jan 2024

Understanding climate's impact on diarrheal disease transmission

Diarrhea is, globally, the second largest cause of death for children under 5. Contributing to more than 500,000 deaths, only pneumonia kills more children each year.

10 Jan 2024

Hearing aid usage linked to reduced mortality in adults with hearing impairments

Researchers determine the relationship between the use of hearing aids and mortality among adult United States residents with hearing impairment.

10 Jan 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Can better internet access improve mental healthcare in the U.S.?

Study analyzes the correlation between broadband internet access and mental health resource availability in U.S. counties, revealing significant disparities in mental healthcare access, particularly in areas with limited broadband.

8 Jan 2024

UC Davis Health develops a road map to diversify the health care workforce

How can healthcare systems increase diversity and inclusion in their workforce?

5 Jan 2024

Bold changes are in store for Medi-Cal in 2024, but will patients benefit?

California's safety-net health program, Medi-Cal, is on the cusp of major changes that could rectify long-standing problems and improve health care for the state's low-income population.

22 Dec 2023

Research illustrates how racism is deeply interrelated with poor health outcomes

A team of health equity researchers from several institutions has leveraged a complex web of data to test a hypothesis: That structural racism is associated with resources and structures at the neighborhood level that are closely associated with poor health.

21 Dec 2023

New study shows air quality impacts imagination and inventiveness

Air quality in the office may affect our level of creativity at work, scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found.

19 Dec 2023

New study links guaranteed income to lower homelessness rates

Researchers at the Center for Homelessness, Housing, and Health Equity Research at the University of Southern California released an interim report on the first six months of a randomized controlled trial to study the impact of a basic income and social support intervention for 103 individuals experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area.

15 Dec 2023

Poverty News and Research

New York joins local governments in erasing billions in medical debt

Education saves lives across all demographics, study reveals

New screening tool helps doctors spot precarious employment

Insurance doesn’t always cover hearing aids for kids

In this Oklahoma town, most everyone knows someone who’s been sued by the hospital

Combined effect of poverty and inflammation on mortality is worse than expected from separate effects, study reports

Chronic inflammation and poverty join forces to increase mortality risk

Medical community calls for unified action on climate and biodiversity crises as global health emergency

Higher antioxidant intake linked to lower back pain risk in women, study finds

Poverty may combine in a synergistic manner with chronic inflammation to reduce health, life expectancy

Mary Lou Retton’s explanation of health insurance takes some somersaults

A universal coronavirus vaccine could provide substantial health and economic benefits

Understanding climate's impact on diarrheal disease transmission

Hearing aid usage linked to reduced mortality in adults with hearing impairments

Bridging the digital divide: Can better internet access improve mental healthcare in the U.S.?

UC Davis Health develops a road map to diversify the health care workforce

Bold changes are in store for Medi-Cal in 2024, but will patients benefit?

Research illustrates how racism is deeply interrelated with poor health outcomes

New study shows air quality impacts imagination and inventiveness

New study links guaranteed income to lower homelessness rates

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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