Black Women Have Increased Rates of Distant-Stage Cervical Cancer
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Compared with White women, Black women have increased rates of distant-stage cervical carcinoma, according to a study published online Aug. 18 in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer.
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Learn MoreAumentan las tasas de suicidio de los estadounidenses de origen hispano
JUEVES, 18 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — El suicidio es un importante problema de salud pública para todos los estadounidenses, pero una nueva investigación sugiere que es un problema particularmente urgente entre los hispanos.Entre 2010 y 202…
Learn MoreLos CDC investigan un brote de E. coli en Michigan y Ohio
JUEVES, 18 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Las autoridades de salud de EE. UU. dijeron el miércoles que están investigando un brote de E. coli que ha infectado a 19 personas en Michigan y Ohio.El brote ha conducido a nueve hospitalizaciones, per…
Learn MoreLos países con cobertura universal de salud tuvieron unas mejores tasas de vacunación infantil en la pandemia
JUEVES, 18 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Los países que están más cerca de lograr una cobertura universal de la salud tuvieron unos declives más pequeños en las vacunaciones infantiles de rutina durante la pandemia, revela un estudio reciente….
Learn MoreSMART Work and Life Intervention Reduces Sitting Time for Office Workers
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An intervention can reduce sitting time at work, with greater improvement with the use of a height-adjustable desk, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in The BMJ.
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Learn MoreCases of Advanced Cervical Cancer Keep Rising Among U.S. Women
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — New research points to a conundrum with cervical cancer: While rates of early-stage disease have been dropping in the United States ever since the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was introduced, advanced ca…
Learn MoreBrain-Eating Amoeba May Have Caused Nebraska Child’s Death
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The death of a child in Nebraska was likely caused by an infection with a “brain-eating amoeba” that occurred after the child swam in a local river, state health officials announced this week.In a news release,…
Learn MoreBaseline Knowledge Uneven Among Cannabis Dispensary Personnel
THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Cannabis dispensary personnel are committed to their profession, but baseline cannabis knowledge is uneven and workplace training in cannabis therapeutics is unstandardized and weak, according to a study p…
Learn MoreThree Pharmacy Chains Must Pay $650 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis
THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Three of the country’s largest pharmacy chains will have to pay $650.5 million over the next 15 years to two Ohio counties for their role in the opioid epidemic, a U.S. federal judge has ordered.The decision…
Learn MoreAsí bajará la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación el costo de la atención de la salud
MIÉRCOLES, 17 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — El Presidente Joe Biden firmó el martes la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación (Inflation Reduction Act), lo que la convierte en la legislación sobre atención de la salud más significativa que se ha apr…
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