If a newborn tests positive for certain drugs after birth, mandated reporters in many states—including health care professionals and social workers—are required to report it to Child Protective Services.
Mar 8, 2023
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The first global study to investigate how gender equality may be associated with life expectancy has found that both women and men live longer as it improves.
Mar 6, 2023
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Vaccine hesitancy is just one reason fewer people in some parts of the United States have been inoculated against coronavirus.
Dec 15, 2022
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Members of the public are being asked to help remove biases based on race and other disadvantaged groups in artificial intelligence algorithms for health care.
Sep 26, 2022
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A new study published in The Lancet estimates that RSV-attributable acute lower respiratory infection was responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in children under five across the globe in 2019. The study is the first to ...
May 20, 2022
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Adult vaccination rates and social determinants of health—or the social and economic conditions in which families live and work—have played an important role in children's mental health during the pandemic, according ...
Apr 27, 2022
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Parents and children who were separated under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy have shown lasting psychological trauma—even after being reunited, a new study finds.
Nov 25, 2021
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Structuring negotiations between insurers and providers, standardizing fee-for-service payments and negotiating prices can lower the United States' health care spending by slowing the rate at which healthcare prices increase, ...
Nov 22, 2020
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When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World Health Organization (WHO), global leaders, and vaccine producers are already facing the question of how to appropriately allocate ...
Sep 3, 2020
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Rainy weather has long been blamed for achy joints. Unjustly so, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The analysis, published Dec. 13 in BMJ, found no relationship between rainfall and joint or back pain.
Dec 13, 2017
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