FRIDAY, Dec. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Most working-age Americans get health insurance through their employer, but even they are finding it tougher to afford medical care these days, a new study shows. Researchers found that over the past 20 years, a growing number of Americans with job-based health insuranceContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) – All travelers flying from China to the United States will soon be required to produce a negative COVID test or show proof of recovery if they’ve had a recent COVID infection, U.S. health officials announced Wednesday. The new rule, set to go intoContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Being evicted can have a significant impact on a person’s health, according to new research. In U.S. counties where eviction rates were elevated, death rates were higher for all causes, especially if those areas were home to a higher proportion of Black residentsContinue Reading
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 need a mitral valve replacement are more likely to have operations that involveContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — China plans to roll back some of its strict COVID-19 controls, including allowing more of its people to travel abroad. During the pandemic, the country has limited passports, allowing them only for family emergencies or some work travel, but the government announced TuesdayContinue Reading
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, it is what 1Continue Reading
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 Institute and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers found thatContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. communities with higher Hispanic, American Indian or Black populations also have the highest concentrations of metal in public water systems, new research reveals. Researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City found significantly higher arsenic and uraniumContinue Reading
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 prognosis, American Cancer Society (ACS)Continue Reading
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 California found that homeless people in Los Angeles CountyContinue Reading