Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back late last year. Ollie’s parents, who adopted her in 2020, tried to sign her up for a clinical trial … Read more
Losing health insurance can quickly worsen health for people with diabetes as patients struggle to control the disease after coverage is interrupted, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University, The study, published today in JAMA Health Forum, found that low-income adults with diabetes who experienced insurance “churn” – defined as losing coverage … Read more
Where a woman lives significantly affects whether her breast cancer is diagnosed at an early or late stage, according to a national analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). Researchers found prominent geographic variations within rural regions across the United States, and that race and insurance status also strongly influenced … Read more
A new GOP budget bill could leave nearly 11 million Americans without health insurance, according to a recent Congressional Budget Office analysis.This legislation proposes significant cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP), impacting access to vital healthcare services. Discover how the proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace might further … Read more
Pregnant women are more often uninsured and have worse access to routine medical care in states that ban (or restrict) abortion care, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, from researchers at Harvard Medical School, the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and other institutions. … Read more
Emerging research suggests that prior mammography screening within five years of breast cancer diagnosis for seniors significantly reduces the risks of later-stage diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality. For the study, recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers reviewed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database for 13,028 women who had screening mammography-detected … Read more
Many teenagers enter adulthood with significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a key time to address these risk factors and reduce the risk of developing future cardiovascular disease, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association. According … Read more
As they studied two years of prison-inmate data, Laura Dague and a team of fellow health researchers noticed that one particular scenario kept cropping up. That scenario involved the days when an inmate is released and returns to their community. A significant number were released with chronic health issues and promptly signed up for government-subsidized … Read more
TOPLINE: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rates were 24%-37% higher in adults with autism than the general population and having both conditions was linked to worse outcomes, a new cohort study showed. METHODOLOGY: This population-based cohort study included more than 3.5 million Medicaid-enrolled adults aged 18 years or older (mean age, 33.5 years; 53% women; 60% White … Read more
Recognition of telehealth as an effective strategy for delivering treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) has raised hopes for improving access to this treatment in settings with limited transportation or when time constraints compromise regular use of consistent access to in-person substance use treatment. But the findings from a team of researchers from the Virginia … Read more