Just ahead of the first anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a statement calling for an end to gun violence. Gun violence has continued unabated in the 12 months since the Sandy Hook killings, the statement says: “Every day about 7 children are killed in the U.S. by firearms, including hundreds since the massacre Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Conn.”
A Missouri marketing company has applied for permits to sell tobacco at dozens of bars and clubs around San Francisco, a move that surprised both public health officials and bar owners who said they had no idea someone was applying to sell tobacco at their establishments without permission.
Homeless smokers have a harder time quitting tobacco than do smokers who are struggling financially but have a stable place to live, according to a new study.
California’s new health insurance exchange appears to be gaining momentum with consumers. Officials announced Thursday that 109,000 people had completed the application process and picked a private insurance plan through CoveredCa.com in October and November. About twice as many people completed the process in November as had in October, and the numbers for the first week of December were even higher.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors released their 31st survey on homelessness and hunger on Wednesday. The report shows that many cities have seen an uptick in the numbers of people without a place to live or enough to eat. Many city officials expect requests for shelter and food to increase in further during 2014.
To make the Affordable Care Act work, one tool is critical: the electronic health record.
In a war, both men and women will suffer from trauma. But researchers are finding that the way women hurt is different from men, especially when it comes to veterans who reported military sexual trauma.
When Paula Pilecki approached 26 assisted living facilities in Marin County about making their facilities more receptive to all sexual orientations, she was shocked at the response. “Almost all of them said ‘There are no gay people in our facilities so we don’t have to do that.”
A new study by researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston finds that messages targeted directly at members of the Hispanic community could increase the number of organ donations among that population. The researchers say that increasing the number of Hispanic donors is important because the general demand for organs is higher than the supply and organ donation by the Hispanic community is lower than among other minority groups.
A poster study presented at the 2013 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Dallas, Texas found that Hispanic, black and white women under age 65 have a higher risk of death when hospitalized after a heart attack than white men. The researchers also found that younger Hispanic women are more likely to have diabetes in addition to heart problems compared with black and white women and that all the women in the study were less likely to undergo cardiac interventions such as having a stent placed in an artery or have coronary artery bypass surgery compared with white men.