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Study finds key differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates by race, ethnicity and borough at NYC schools

For the more than 1 million children attending New York City public schools, the likelihood of receiving COVID-19 vaccines depended on their race and ethnicity, and the borough in which they live.

15 Sep 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Graham’s bill recenters abortion debate

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) put abortion back on Republicans' agenda this week with a legislative proposal calling for a national ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

15 Sep 2022

Study shows links between periodontal care and hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction

The conventional wisdom is that medical and dental care are related, but less is known about how dental care relates to health outcomes after acute incidents like heart attacks.

15 Sep 2022

Survey highlights increase in the public's knowledge about monkeypox

The public's knowledge about monkeypox has increased rapidly in recent weeks though misconceptions and uncertainty persist, and over a quarter of Americans say they are not likely to get vaccinated against monkeypox if they're exposed to it, according to a new Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) survey.

15 Sep 2022

CDC endorses ACIP recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters

Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 years and older and from Moderna for people ages 18 years and older.

15 Sep 2022

Doctors experiencing burnout can jeopardize the quality and safety of patient care

Doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents and four times more likely to be dissatisfied with their job, suggests research published today by The BMJ.

15 Sep 2022

Performance of some COVID-19 home testing kits declined during omicron period, study reveals

The performance of some home testing kits for covid-19 appears to have declined as the omicron variant emerged, suggests a study published by The BMJ today.

15 Sep 2022

Montana health department seeks to ax board that hears public assistance appeals

Montana health officials are asking state lawmakers to eliminate a board that hears appeals from people who believe they were wrongly denied public assistance benefits.

15 Sep 2022

Court ruling may spur competitive health plans to bring back copays for preventive services

Tom and Mary Jo York are a health-conscious couple, going in for annual physicals and periodic colorectal cancer screening tests. Mary Jo, whose mother and aunts had breast cancer, also gets regular mammography tests.

15 Sep 2022

Can daytime feeding prevent mood vulnerability in night workers?

A new study explores the effect of daytime feeding on affective disorder incidence in this subset of workers.

15 Sep 2022

Lancet report highlights global failures of COVID-19 response, calls for strengthened multilateralism to eradicate pandemic

Widespread, global failures at multiple levels in the COVID-19 response led to millions of preventable deaths and reversed progress made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in many countries, according to a new Lancet COVID-19 Commission report.

14 Sep 2022

Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

Like many neighborhoods in cities across the country, Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward is changing.

14 Sep 2022

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

New findings published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research show a simple, but valuable approach can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco.

14 Sep 2022

C-Path secures FDA Grant for new public-private partnership to benefit people with rare neurodegenerative diseases

Critical Path Institute has announced it will serve as the convener of the Critical Path for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases, a new public-private partnership to benefit people across multiple rare neurodegenerative diseases, supported by a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

14 Sep 2022

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and NYC Health + Hospitals have announced the 2022 awardees of the CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants, an initiative to support collaborative, interdisciplinary COVID-19 research that will address both the pandemic and root causes of health disparities in New York City.

14 Sep 2022

Culture-related educational program benefits the health and well-being of Native American youth

Native American youth in the U.S. experience higher rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts.

14 Sep 2022

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Achieving a good efficacy of chemotherapy is one of the major challenges still unresolved in oncological patients. The main limitation to the efficacy of chemotherapy is the multidrug-resistant (MDR) phenotype, a multiple cross-resistance towards different anticancer drugs.

14 Sep 2022

Experts question the role of white mulberry in the death of Congressman’s wife

Scientists, doctors, and pathologists are questioning the Sacramento County coroner's conclusion that Lori McClintock's death was related to white mulberry, a plant that has been used as an herbal remedy for centuries — and one that the coroner's botanical consultant called "not toxic" in a letter to her office.

14 Sep 2022

Bariatric surgery associated with long-term improvements in pain, physical function, work productivity

Improvements in pain, physical function and work productivity largely endure for at least seven years after bariatric surgery, despite some backsliding from the high levels of improvement seen in the years immediately following surgery, University of Pittsburgh epidemiologists report today in JAMA Network Open.

14 Sep 2022

Walnut consumption early on in life may lead to better health as we age

Researchers who reviewed 20 years of diet history and 30 years of physical and clinical measurements have found participants who ate walnuts early on in life showed a greater likelihood for being more physically active, having a higher quality diet, and experiencing a better heart disease risk profile as they aged into middle adulthood.

14 Sep 2022

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Study finds key differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates by race, ethnicity and borough at NYC schools

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Graham’s bill recenters abortion debate

Study shows links between periodontal care and hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction

Survey highlights increase in the public's knowledge about monkeypox

CDC endorses ACIP recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters

Doctors experiencing burnout can jeopardize the quality and safety of patient care

Performance of some COVID-19 home testing kits declined during omicron period, study reveals

Montana health department seeks to ax board that hears public assistance appeals

Court ruling may spur competitive health plans to bring back copays for preventive services

Can daytime feeding prevent mood vulnerability in night workers?

Lancet report highlights global failures of COVID-19 response, calls for strengthened multilateralism to eradicate pandemic

Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

C-Path secures FDA Grant for new public-private partnership to benefit people with rare neurodegenerative diseases

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

Culture-related educational program benefits the health and well-being of Native American youth

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Experts question the role of white mulberry in the death of Congressman’s wife

Bariatric surgery associated with long-term improvements in pain, physical function, work productivity

Walnut consumption early on in life may lead to better health as we age

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