WEDNESDAY, April 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans are far less likely to be included in clinical trials of pancreatic cancer drugs than white Americans, and eligibility criteria are a significant factor in that gap, according to a new study. “The standard of care in cancer treatment is informedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Faced with rising COVID-19 case counts, Philadelphia has announced that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate next week. City officials announced the change on Monday, as COVID-19 cases have climbed across the country due to the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant known asContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Older Black American cancer patients have higher rates of frailty and disability than their white peers, which may help explain why Black patients also have higher cancer death rates, new research suggests. The researchers noted that Black patients are more likely to dieContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A rule requiring U.S. federal government employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been reinstated by a federal appeals court. The mandate was introduced in September but enforcement was halted in January by a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Just weeks after dropping masking rules, some overseas airlines have canceled hundreds of flights as they struggle with staffing shortages related to COVID-19. This comes as the leading U.S. airlines have urged the Biden administration to scrap a mask mandate for passengers. SwissContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A handful of former directors of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they support a sweeping review of the agency that’s been ordered up by CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Earlier this week, Walensky announced that she has asked outsideContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) –The nursing home industry is awash in ineffective care and staffing shortages, claims a new report that calls for sweeping changes in an industry whose failures have only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Experts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine mincedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — America’s roads are getting ever more dangerous for pedestrians, a new study finds. During the first six months of 2021, there was a 17% increase in pedestrian deaths in the United States — and that just continues the sharp increase seen over theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Electric scooters may be a boon for the environment but not so much for riders. A surprising study finds that the injury rate in one Los Angeles neighborhood for riders of e-scooters topped that for users of motorcycles, bicycles and cars nationwide. “ThereContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. medical schools are not keeping pace with a nation that is more racially and ethnically diverse every day, a new study reports. The schools’ clinical faculty and leadership are not as diverse as the communities around them, though there are some positiveContinue Reading