The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

DNA is not changed by mRNA, despite a new piece of misinformation that anti-vaxxers have been adding to their narrative lately, based on an article that a group of researchers from Sweden published this past February in Current Issues in Molecular Biology. Another dose is under study for children below the age of 5.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being , we discuss the progress of hepatitis B research and the challenges faced, including the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of funding, and low vaccination rates. In your opinion, is this an achievable goal?

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Its workforce is aging and burnt out. In fact, the article says, “Utility customers on average experienced just over eight hours of power interruptions in 2020, more than double the amount in 2013.” Lives have been lost because it wasn’t performing when it needed to be. It’s built around large facilities that are often decades old.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The pattern showed that the sickest Medicare Advantage patients were canceling their coverage just as their health needs and the cost of that care rose, the article showed. The post WSJ analysis shows sickest seniors leaving Medicare Advantage, shifting costs to taxpayers appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!- The capitation levels that are paid to the plans are affected very directly by the health status levels of the actual enrollees. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Matthew Holt. Risk status and RAF.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Regardless of age, body weight, ethnicity, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, sexual identity, or financial status, eating disorders and related anxieties about appearance can afflict anyone. Leading this article collection is Dr. Jason M Lavender , from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU).

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Gideon

JULY 7, 2021

Alisa Aliaga-Samanez Exactly one month ago, on June 7th, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases published a research article Worldwide dynamic biogeography of zoonotic and anthroponotic Dengue. We got to know GIDEON thanks to an article published in PNAS by Kris A. How did you find out about GIDEON?

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Public Healthy

APRIL 19, 2021

* This article was written on behalf of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on the launch of their Wellbeing Economy Policy Design Guide , and originally published here * — Those of us working in public health are interested in the causes of poor health and wellbeing, but also in ‘the causes of the causes’.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. I created the Glorious Age of Aging to look at this issue over six hourlong meetings over three months.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group. BY ANISH KOKA.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

After six years of marriage to Annie, he was the only father the youngest siblings (ages three and five when Annie remarried) might clearly remember. As author, activist, consultant and a former Pulitzer-nominated journalist, Michael Millenson focuses professionally on making health care safer, better and more patient-centered.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 9, 2024

to Secretary of Health and Human Services. If Americans dont realize how dangerous Kennedys beliefs are to public health or the power he would have over public health policy as HHS Secretary, they arent equipped to share their opinions about his nomination with their senators, who will decide whether to confirm his nomination.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. In 1992, the IOM served notice with the publication of “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in The United States.” Our health care system remains porous and highly variable.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If the credits end, 4 million Americans could lose their ACA health insurance and 7.2 Also, hospitals, physicians and other professionals who deliver health care could see a rise in uncompensated care. million enrolled in 2020, according to this Health Affairs article.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Using local postal agents, his searches and seizures, whose subsequent sales were shared 50/50 with his own organization, bank rolled the lobbying of Congress necessary to pass the “Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use”, otherwise known as the Comstock Laws.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

By Grace Vitaglione This article was written with the support of a journalism fellowship from The Gerontological Society of America, The Journalists Network on Generations and The Silver Century Foundation. Linda Duffy, 83, got sick of the games that she says UnitedHealthcare played with health care providers over negotiating contracts.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If spending goes down significantly, at least nine states could end their Medicaid expansion initiatives, throwing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans off of their government-funded health insurance, health policy experts predict. About 20% of all personal health care spending in the United States.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas. Kennedy Jr.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In a prior age the social institutions were used to censure Jews and those with too much melanin. After all, the goal of the CDC now isn’t just to maximize benefits versus harms, it is to also mitigate health inequities as the ethics table from that document makes clear. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Two days later, her brother, Jose Leandro-Barrera, died at age 45 with acute kidney failure caused by heatstroke, according to a report from the Hillsborough County medical examiner. Correction: This article was updated at 10:30 a.m.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks the latest potential shakeup of federal health agencies, and adds new uncertainty to the future of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. John Fetterman (D).

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trump and his campaign have been vague about plans on health care policies, though current and former Trump aides have published blueprints that go well beyond reversing programs in force under the Biden administration, to overhauling public health agencies and enabling Trump to quickly fire officials who disagree.

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