Many U.S. women don’t know most of the warning signs of stroke, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2014 Scientific Sessions.
Author: Fran Kritz
A new study finds that about three out of four older Americans have multiple chronic health conditions, and more than 20 percent of them are being treated with drugs that work against each other. The study authors say that the problem is a result of a current approach in the United States of treating conditions one at a time rather than looking at the conditions together.
A new review of U.S. gun laws, Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America, recently published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, looks at new developments in gun policies since the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last year.
In the last year and a half, doctors in California have seen about twenty cases of what may be a new disease. Patients, usually children, quickly and permanently lose muscle function in an arm or leg, sometimes, but not always after having respiratory symptoms.
For families who moved out of high-poverty neighborhoods, boys experienced an increase and girls a decrease in rates of depression and conduct disorder, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Spanish language media companies joined together on Thursday to host a town hall meeting with President Barack Obama at the Newseum in Washington, DC, aimed at getting millions of uninsured Latinos to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA.) The town hall, “Tu Salud y La Nueva Ley: Conversación con el Presidente (“Your Health and the New Law: A Conversation with the President”) addressed issues and concerns that have been seen as barriers to health insurance enrollment for the Latino community.
A new study by researchers at UCLA finds that cigarette cravings and dependence may cause structural changes in the brains of young smokers, including those who have only been smoking for a short time. The neurological changes may help explain why people who begin smoking at a young age can become addicted to cigarettes.
A new analysis by researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University finds that frequent experiences of racism are associated with a higher risk of obesity among African American women. That link was strongest among women who reported consistently high experiences of racism over a 12-year period. The research was based on data from the Black Women’s Health Study, a longitudinal study that enrolled 59,000 African-American women in 1995 and has followed them continually.
An analysis of data on over 16,000 Hispanic participants from a variety of countries finds wide variety in diseases, risk factors and lifestyles among people who identify as Hispanic in the U.S.
California was the first state under the microscope as the Kaiser Family Foundation last week began a multi-state review of how previously uninsured people are faring under the Affordable Care Act (ACA.)