The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from COVID-19 in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths.
Aug 25, 2022
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Scientific studies and media coverage are rife with warnings on how sugar, carbohydrates, saturated fat and lack of exercise contribute to obesity. And tens of millions of Americans are still overweight or obese in large ...
Aug 23, 2022
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Recent research indicates that during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of working-aged U.S. adults without health insurance did not change despite increases in unemployment, and the prevalence of unhealthy ...
Aug 22, 2022
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Countries with greater progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) had smaller declines in childhood vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study publishing August 16 in the open-access ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Millions of Americans will be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription later this fall, under a long-awaited rule finalized Tuesday.
Aug 16, 2022
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Africa recorded a ten-year growth in its healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization Africa office said Thursday, exceeding the global average and progress seen in any other region over the same ...
Aug 4, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role nurses play in health care—millions of nurses worldwide have been essential administers of care on the front lines of the global health crisis. Yet in debate around ...
Aug 3, 2022
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The proportion of the US population with no health insurance in the United States reached a new low in early 2022 at eight percent, President Joe Biden's administration said Tuesday.
Aug 3, 2022
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New research published in Obesity has found that multiple state employee healthcare plans have reduced obesity treatment services for workers in the past five years. Conducted by the STOP Obesity Alliance at the George Washington ...
Aug 2, 2022
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In adults, limited English proficiency (LEP) is associated with worse access to care, according to a study published online July 26 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Aug 1, 2022
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