Pete Hegseth: Standing up against the ‘permanent pandemic’ ‘Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe’ author Niall Ferguson joins ‘FOX News Primetime’ to discuss the politics of the pandemic NEW YORK – The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday. The […]
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Stroke rate four times higher in Black adults than whites
Black middle-aged adults had an incidence rate of stroke 4 times higher than that of white middle-aged adults, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published March 29 in Hypertension. The large national prospective study highlights the need to raise awareness among young and middle-aged Black adults about the impact of high blood pressure, called hypertension, […]
Uninsured rate among young adults has plummeted in the last decade, report finds
The number of young adults without health insurance has plummeted since 2011, largely thanks to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which allowed more adults to qualify for the publicly funded health program, according to a new report by the Urban Institute. Young adults have historically had high uninsured rates because they are less […]
Mortality rate up for Koreans with rheumatoid arthritis
(HealthDay)—Korean patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased mortality rates compared with the general population, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases. Yeon-Kyung Lee, from the Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues examined the causes and risk for death in 2,355 […]
Mortality Rate High With Frequent Alcohol-Linked ED Visits
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 — Individuals with frequent emergency department visits for alcohol-related reasons have a high mortality rate, according to a study published online Nov. 23 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Jennifer Hulme, M.D., M.P.H., from the University Health Network in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using […]
Loss of smell and taste validated as COVID-19 symptoms in patients with high recovery rate
Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. In a study published April 12, 2020 in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, researchers at UC San Diego Health report the first empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “Based […]
Study: More aggressive treatments needed to improve 5-year survival rate for glioblastoma
Despite improvements in median and short-term survival rates for patients with glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, the percentage of patients achieving five-year survival remains low, according to new Mayo Clinic research. A study to be published next month in Mayo Clinic Proceedings finds that little has changed in terms of five-year survival—only […]
Child pneumonia rate dropped globally from 2000 to 2015
(HealthDay)—The global incidence of child pneumonia and related mortality decreased substantially from 2000 to 2015, consistent with decreases in the prevalence of some key risk factors, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet Global Health. David A. McAllister, M.D., from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and colleagues used data […]
An opt-out system isn’t the solution to Australia’s low rate of organ donation
Organ transplantation relies on the generosity of a person to volunteer their organs for donation after death, or the generosity of the family to gift or donate the organs of their deceased relative. But last year, the organs of just 510 deceased donors were transplanted into Australian recipients. This amounts to 20.7 donations per million […]
Uninsured Rate at 8.8 Percent in First Quarter of 2018
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3, 2018 — In the first quarter of 2018, the uninsured rate was 8.8 percent, not significantly different from a year earlier, according to a report released Aug. 29 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., from the NCHS, and colleagues used data from the first quarter of […]