The Health Care Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Medicare Advantage (Advantage), originally conceived in 1997 during the Clinton Administration as ‘Medicare + Choice’, has progressively grown and become an established health insurance option for those 65 and older. million, while trade associations representing the health insurance industry spent an equivalent amount.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 22, 2023

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers analyzed health information on middle-aged and senior participants in the UK Biobank. These had been enrolled between 2006 and 2010, when between 40 and 69 years old. Adult education also appeared to help preserve nonverbal reasoning performance and fluid intelligence.

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Mercola

JANUARY 7, 2025

in July 2010 to 9.0% Beyond the immediate health risks, there is a concern that these medications may exacerbate behavioral problems rather than alleviate them. This practice raises significant safety concerns, as antipsychotics are linked to serious health risks. They found that antipsychotic use declined from 11.4%

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Now, one of those leading the breakthrough research, Dr Emmanuelle Logette, reveals as part of the Frontier Scientists series how even at a very young age she knew she wanted to be a researcher in the fascinating world of genetics. For many years, fat was the enemy of health, before realizing that the actual ‘devil’ is probably sugar.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. We mostly ignored the recommendations of the 2 nd (Public Health) and 3 rd (social care) reports. We all live in hope. I am (very) often asked what my views are.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 7, 2025

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. With primary care doctors ranked as the most trusted source of information on these health effects, medical professionals have a unique opportunity to educate the public about the far-reaching health impacts of our changing environment.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. health system, and insurance companies specifically. health system, and insurance companies specifically.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By Jennifer Fernandez Fewer North Carolina children are dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, according to a new report by a retired leader of the states health system whose career focused on the well-being of children. Vitaglione, now retired, has continued to study child health issues. The overall fatality rate dropped 13.6

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By GEORGE BEAUREGARD During my years in a bustling metropolitan primary care practice from 1992 to 2010, I recall only a handful of patients under 50 who developed cancer. Since 2010, I’ve transitioned into physician executive roles across various U.S. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

PITTSBURGH — More than a year after the Pennsylvania Department of Health published three studies linking fracking to cancer and other health effects, advocates say the agency failed to keep promises to help residents living near fracking wells.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 6, 2024

On social media in particular, some users gloated about the killing a reaction they framed as rooted in their enmity for the health insurance industry. First, there is a widespread perception that health insurance companies are characterized by avarice and callousness.

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

In our research recently published in the IJE, we found that the gap in life expectancy would be even wider today if declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality had not dramatically slowed around 2010. However, around 2010, this decline stagnated. We found that, from 1999 to 2009, the gap between urban and rural counties grew.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 3, 2025

KFF Health News is identifying him by his initials because he fears being arrested for using illegal drugs. It had been several hours since his last hit, and the chatty, middle-aged man’s hands moved quickly. The second wave involved an increase in heroin use, starting around 2010. In one hand, he held a glass pipe.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The Caregiver Support Program was started in 2008 and started accepting post-9/11 veteran applications for comprehensive assistance in 2010, according to Colleen Richardson, a doctor in clinical psychology and executive director of the Caregiver Support Program in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

And research shows that when this happens, your health will drastically suffer. While popular, long-term use to manage allergies affects your health, as evidenced in a case report 5 published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports. Antihistamines have been linked to changes in mental health as well.

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News Medical Health Sciences

APRIL 29, 2025

From 2010 to 2020, breast cancer deaths among women ages 20-49 declined significantly across all breast cancer subtypes and racial/ethnic groups, with marked declines starting after 2016, according to an analysis of data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (..)

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This is an alert, an alarm, but I don’t think there’s a need to panic,” said Chuanwu Xi, a professor of environmental health sciences and of global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has researched the growth of Legionella bacteria.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 29, 2024

These aren't just minor inconveniences; they're significant medical events that could have long-lasting impacts on your health. Ozempic Linked to Suicidal Ideation A comprehensive study analyzing the World Health Organization's database of adverse drug reactions uncovered more troubling findings about Ozempic. 6 While 1.7%

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Sheffield DPH

JANUARY 14, 2023

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. Not into health. Of that there is no doubt. This was good.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Dean Ornish, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in how to use food and simple lifestyle strategies to improve health. But the important point is that most of their destructive health habits will be changed at that point. They said, 'No.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 59

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Mercola

MARCH 20, 2025

In fact, studies have found sleeping pill users are two to five times as likely to die as non-users, 10 , 11 and one estimate concluded that in 2010, prescription sleeping pills "may have been associated with 320,000 to 507,000 excess deaths within the USA alone." Learn more.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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Mercola

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Dean Ornish, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in how to use food and simple lifestyle strategies to improve health. But the important point is that most of their destructive health habits will be changed at that point. They said, 'No.

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Black Health Matters

JUNE 18, 2024

Corynne Corbett ( 00:15 ): I’m Corynne Corbett, editorial director from Black Health Matters. And it’s unfortunate because I think a lot of things happen when we’re stuck, our health starts to suffer not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. So, our brain health is even.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Our October Lunch and Learn focused on building a niche beat as a freelance health care journalist. Seegert has been covering aging since about 2010. She recognized that Obamacare was emerging and there was a need for health reporters to explain the nuances. Almost anything can be an aging issue,” she said.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Orange County resident was the state ombudsman of Maryland from 2010 to 2015, a position where she had the responsibility of resolving complaints and concerns for nursing homes across the state. Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a lack of resources and inadequate staff hampering their ability to keep up with complaints.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. BY ERIC LARSEN and TOMMY IBRAHIM. Eric Larsen.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. In 2010, Dr. Slack wrote, “Dialogue between physician and patient continues to be the mainstay of clinical medicine.”

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For journalists who want to track trends in the quality of maternal health, a more useful gauge may be the rate of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) , which affects tens of thousands of women annually. It’s associated with both adverse maternal and infant health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. per 10,000 in 2016 to 87.2

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2010, I created the First Friday Ideas Salon. Recently, I became interested in the issue of how retirees whose professions defined their persona can, after age 80, as a “senior senior,” continue to be a person of substantiality. It’s difficult to find unbiased health-related articles nowadays.

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Better Health For All

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Domestic abuse or intimate partner violence is a global issue which has been recognised by the World Health Organisation as a major public health problem. [5] 6] According to the Femicide Census, over the decade between 2010 and 2020, 1,924 women were killed by men, an average of one woman killed every 2.7

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The Hill

MARCH 5, 2025

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) says 159 measles cases have been identified, including one unvaccinated child who died last week shortly after being hospitalized. Kennedy Jr.s That's not the way that it works, McLellan said.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

school news SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall Members of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies.

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Gideon

MARCH 31, 2021

coli (EPEC) infection is a common cause of infantile diarrhea, although it can affect people of all ages. DAEC infection is associated with diarrhea in children, where the risk of infection increases with age. 158-163, 2010. Most cases are self-limited, but it may be life-threatening in infants. It is usually self-limited.

Environmental Health and Safety 52

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NC Health News

MARCH 14, 2025

The hospital was later placed into bankruptcy, a move that operator Quorum Health attributed to financial challenges related to declining population and utilization trends. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC Chapel Hill. But all of those hospitals were still functioning when they made the switch.

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