Cardiology
The heart health risks of being a single parent
Nobody needs a study to tell them being a single parent is tough.
Dec 2, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Americans sick with COVID disproportionately poor, minorities, uninsured and food insecure
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was receding in mid-May, some 1.3 million working-age adults reported being home sick with symptoms they attributed to the coronavirus. A new analysis finds that, compared to those ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Anxiety and depression are associated with medical care avoidance during the pandemic
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been empirical and anecdotal reports of declines in both emergency and ambulatory medical visits. However, little research has been conducted to identify why these declines ...
Sep 3, 2020
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Health
Study looks to past to define need for future diversity among internal medicine physicians
According to U.S. Census Bureau and academic projections, the United States population will look much different in 2060 than it does today. Of the nearly 420 million Americans expected in 40 years, it's likely that 60% will ...
Sep 2, 2020
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Pediatrics
Combined factors compound lead exposure disparity for Milwaukee children
Milwaukee children do not have equal risk of lead exposure. The combined neighborhood factors of race, poverty and low homeownership compound the risk for elevated childhood blood lead levels in Milwaukee County, according ...
Aug 21, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Taking your 'mental health temperature' during COVID-19
You think you're doing OK when out of the blue it hits: a vague uneasiness—a nagging awareness that something isn't right. You're waking up in the middle of the night or you're snapping at your spouse. You miss people, ...
Aug 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Video: Who controls pandemic data?
Editor's note: When the Trump administration ordered hospitals to report COVID-19 data to the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they had been doing, it ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Medical economics
Official estimates of public health spending are significantly overinflated
In the months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. federal government released its annual estimates for how much the nation spends on health. A small fraction of the $3.6 trillion dedicated to health spending—an ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Work absences in April highest on record, suggesting under-count of COVID cases
In mid-April, as the COVID-19 epidemic roared through the nation, 2,017,105 jobholders were absent from work because they were ill. The April figure was the highest number since at least 1976, and more than double the rate ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Health
Look at method used to assess state of public health system
To assess the state of the public health system in the United States, KHN, also known as Kaiser Health News, and The Associated Press analyzed data on government spending and staffing at national, state and local levels.
Jul 1, 2020
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