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FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In Brazil, education emerges as the top factor influencing cognitive decline, revealing significant health disparities affecting brain health in Latin America.
The Hill
OCTOBER 24, 2024
All adults aged 50 and older should receive a vaccine against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and meningitis, federal health officials said. Lowering the age for the shot gives more adults the opportunity to protect themselves from pneumococcal disease at the age when risk of infection substantially increases, the agency said.
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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. Introduction.
Association of Health Care Journalists
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
As health journalists, many of us have written about or are familiar with social determinants of health (SDOH) — how the places where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age affect health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and health risks. But certain populations remain challenged.
Exploring Health
JANUARY 15, 2025
Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. After the pandemic, health systems in the US have increased the use of telehealth for postsurgical operation follow-ups, consults, and mental health visits, among others.
BU School of Public Health Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Maria Glymour Maria Glymour , chair and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health; Jacqueline Torres, associate professor of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco; and Paola Gilsanz, research scientist II at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, have received a $28.8
NC Health News
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
By Liz Carey The Daily Yonder According to new research from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center , rural residents are not significantly more likely to be worried about their medical bills than their urban counterparts, but they are more likely to have trouble paying them. percent compared to 6 percent). “To
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