Black Patients More Likely to Get Riskier Heart Surgeries
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Insured Black patients are less likely to undergo minimally invasive heart valve replacement or repairs — relatively safe procedures — than their white counterparts, new research shows.Black patients who …
Learn MoreLong Stays Common for Kids Who Visit ERs in Mental Health Crisis
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s a scenario no parent would ever want to witness: Their child suffers a mental health crisis and is taken to the emergency room, only to have to wait 12 hours or more for the right medical care. Sadly,…
Learn MoreLanguage Barriers Hold Back Many Asian Americans From Good Health Care
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adults may have trouble accessing health care and insurance because of language barriers, a new analysis indicates. In a new report by the Urban Inst…
Learn MoreU.S. Men’s Race, Residence Could Raise Odds for Fatal Prostate Cancer
TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The color of his skin and where he lives may influence an American man’s odds of dying from prostate cancer, a new study reveals.Black men and men living in the Western United States face the most dire progno…
Learn MoreHomelessness Can More Than Double Odds of Fatal COVID-19
TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Homeless people in California’s largest county are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as the general population, a new study finds.Researchers from the county, UCLA and the University of Southern …
Learn MoreObamacare May Have Helped Extend Lives of Young Cancer Patients
TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Young adults with cancer, especially those who are Hispanic or Black, had better outcomes because of coverage available to them under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).New research explored the impact of Medicaid…
Learn MoreHigher Price Tag Doesn’t Guarantee Better Quality Joint Replacement: Study
MONDAY, Dec. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The prices that health insurers agree to pay for joint replacement surgery vary widely and are unrelated to conventional measures of the quality of care.That’s the conclusion of a new study that found who is fo…
Learn MoreFDA Updates Guidance on ‘Morning After’ Pill, Making Clear It Does Not Cause Abortions
FRIDAY, Dec. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For many years, Plan B One-Step and its generic equivalents — collectively known as “morning after” pills to prevent a pregnancy — included information in packaging that suggested that the pill might work by…
Learn MoreWhen Rural Hospitals Close, Nearby Hospitals Suffer
FRIDAY, Dec. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — When rural hospitals shut down people need to go elsewhere, and a new study finds that nearby hospitals bear the strain of that patient overflow.”Previous studies have shown that rural hospital closures can ha…
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