Public Health
Pacientes de bajos ingresos con VIH temen quedarse sin cobertura
Cuando Tami Haught fue diagnosticada con VIH, faltaba un día para que cumpliera 25 años. Pero el diagnóstico no la tomó por sorpresa: su prometido había muerto a causa del Sida unas semanas antes. En las dos últimas décadas, Haught, hoy de 48 años, ha estado bajo tratamiento, tomando costosas drogas para controlar a la […]
GOP Health Plan Aims To Curb Medicaid, Expand State Options
For all its populist design, the House GOP’s latest proposal to overhaul federal Medicaid funding creates financial risks for states and could leave some enrollees worse off. Dramatic changes in Medicaid are a big part of the House bill to partially repeal the Affordable Care Act that’s steaming toward a floor vote scheduled for Thursday. […]
Late Move To Dump ‘Essential’ Benefits Could Strand Chronically Ill
Updated, 7:09 AM A last-minute attempt by conservative Republicans to dump standards for health benefits in plans sold to individuals would probably lower the average consumer’s upfront insurance costs, such as premiums and deductibles, said experts on both sides of the debate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But, they add, it will […]
Video Help Is On Way For Family Caregivers Who Must Draw Blood Or Give Injections
Renata Louwers has a hard time getting her blood drawn. The needle, the pinprick of pain, the viscous liquid flowing out of her arm — they make her queasy. So, Louwers had to steel herself when her husband, Ahmad Khoshroo, developed metastatic bladder cancer four years ago at age 72. Within months, as a tumor […]
VPH: nueva versión de la vacuna previene el contagio con solo dos dosis
Uno pensaría que una vacuna que protege contra más de media docena de tipos de cáncer tendría miles de personas haciendo fila para recibirla. Pero la vacuna contra el Virus del Papiloma Humano (VPH), que puede prevenir casi todos los cánceres cervicales y las infecciones de transmisión sexual causadas por el virus, ha enfrentado muchas […]
New Vaccine Recommendation Cuts Number Of HPV Shots Children Need
You’d think that a vaccine that protects people against more than a half-dozen types of cancer would have people lining up to get it. But the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which can prevent roughly 90 percent of all cervical cancers as well as other cancers and sexually transmitted infections caused by the virus, has faced […]
El envenenamiento por plomo no solo afecta la salud a largo plazo, también la movilidad social
Cynthia Brownfield tuvo suerte. Cuando una prueba mostró que su hija, entonces de 2 años, tenía niveles altos de plomo en sangre, ella pudo hacer algo. Brownfield, pediatra en Saint Joseph, Missouri, solicitó una inspección de su casa y encontraron plomo en las ventanas. Las hizo reemplazar y también reparó las tuberías. Probablemente el plomo […]
Lead Poisoning’s Lifelong Toll Includes Lowering Social Mobility, Researchers Find
Cynthia Brownfield was lucky. When her daughter, then 2 years old, tested for high levels of lead in her blood, she could do something. Brownfield, a pediatrician in St. Joseph, Mo., got her home inspected and found lead in the windows. She got them replaced and had her pipes fixed, too. Her daughter, now 12, […]
March Madness Vasectomies Encourage Guys To Take One For The Team
Doctors say it all started eight years ago, when a urology clinic in Oregon ran an ad promoting the benefits of scheduling a vasectomy in March. “You go in for a little snip, snip and come out with doctor’s orders to sit back and watch nonstop basketball,” the voice-over promised. “If you miss out on […]
El básquetbol en “March Madness” anima a los hombres a hacerse la vasectomía
Los médicos dicen que todo comenzó hace ocho años, cuando una clínica de urología en Oregon publicó un anuncio promoviendo los beneficios de programar una vasectomía en marzo. “Usted va por un pequeño corte, una vasectomía y sale con órdenes del médico para sentarse y ver básquetbol sin parar”, decía la voz del comercial. “Si […]