April 7, 2021
Poll: Public Lost Trust in CDC During COVID-19 Crisis
WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Americans’ trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, an opinion poll finds. Researchers from the RAND Corporation, the nonprofit research group based in Santa Monica, California, polled more than 2,000 Americans in May 2020 and questioned most again five...
Dr. Johnny Williamson: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and ADHD
In this MD Newsline exclusive interview with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Johnny Williamson, we discuss ADHD as it relates to race/ethnicity and gender. MD Newsline: Why do Black children suffer more from ADHD than children of other racial/ethnic backgrounds? Dr. Johnny Williamson “One, I think that’s a great question. I think that the diagnosis...
Majority of E-Cigarette Users Want to Quit
WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A majority of electronic cigarette users express interest in eventually quitting vaping, according to a research letter published online April 2 in JAMA Network Open. Amanda M. Palmer, Ph.D., from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and colleagues used data from wave 4 of the Population...
Systemic Inflammatory Disease Tied to Mortality After MI in Young Adults
WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Among patients with a first myocardial infarction (MI) at a young age, 2.5 percent have a diagnosis of systemic inflammatory disease (SID) and an increased risk for all-cause mortality during a median of 11.2 years of follow-up, according to a study published online March 30 in the European...