Neurology
Supreme Court Should Uphold Affordable Care Act: Biden Administration
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The entire Affordable Care Act should be upheld, the U.S. Justice Department says in a letter filed with the Supreme Court Wednesday. That stance under the Biden administration reverses a Trump administration position in an important case before the court, the Associated Press reported. The Trump White House...
Sexual-Minority Medical Students Have Higher Burnout
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Medical students in sexual-minority groups report increased symptoms of burnout regardless of their perceived experiences of mistreatment, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in JAMA Network Open. Elizabeth A. Samuels, M.D., from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues surveyed U.S. medical students graduating in...
Elective C-Sections, Induced Delivery Up for Moms With MS
THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) have no significant differences in severe adverse perinatal outcomes compared with the general population, but they do have an increased prevalence of elective cesarean section, induced delivery, and infants being small for gestational age, according to a study published online Feb. 3 in...
Racial Disparities Seen in Excess Mortality Early in Pandemic
THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Adjusted excess all-cause mortality in April 2020 varied by race/ethnicity and by state, according to a study published in the February issue of Health Affairs. Maria Polyakova, Ph.D., from Stanford University in California, and colleagues examined geographic variation in excess all-cause mortality by race and ethnicity during COVID-19....
About Four in 10 U.S. Adults Skipped Medical Care During Pandemic
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — More than four in 10 U.S. adults report forgoing medical care early in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Jan. 21 in JAMA Network Open. Kelly E. Anderson, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues used data from 1,337 participants in the second wave...
Telemedicine Use Increased Considerably During COVID-19
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Telemedicine use increased considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic, with lower use in communities with higher rates of poverty, according to a study published in the February issue of Health Affairs. Sadiq Y. Patel, Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues examined variation in total outpatient visits...
U.S. Drug Prices 256 Percent Higher Than in 32 OECD Countries
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — In 2018, prices for drugs in the United States were 256 percent higher than those in 32 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) comparison countries, according to a report published online Jan. 28 by the RAND Corporation. Andrew W. Mulcahy, Ph.D., from the RAND Corporation in Santa...
Biden Signs Orders to Expand Health Care Access
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order to reopen enrollment in Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces and also signed other health-related orders. Those orders include protecting reproductive rights, expanding access to abortion, and overturning the Trump administration’s restrictions on the use of taxpayer dollars...
Many Adults Do Not See Link Between Racism, Poorer Health
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Less than half of U.S. adults see a connection between systemic racism and poorer health outcomes, according to a report released Jan. 13 by the RAND Corporation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Katherine Grace Carman, from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and colleagues are conducting...
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