KHN correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed insurance coverage and behavior health carve-outs on Newsy’s “The Why” on July 20. She discussed her experiences as a reporter covering mental health and the online course she created about covering suicide for RedCircle’s “The Journalism Salute” on July 19. Click here to watch Pattani on “The Why” Read Pattani’s […]
Epigenetic clocks are powerful biomarkers based on DNA methylation that were developed to track aging in population studies, clinical trials, and personal health applications. Intended to measure biological age, they strongly predict age-related morbidity and mortality along with other aspects of health. Now, scientists from Yale School of Medicine, in collaboration with international research colleagues, […]
As the BA.5 omicron variant continues to spread, health experts are increasingly preparing for a future in which such COVID-19 variants emerge, surge and recede similar to seasonal flu. An important part of staying on top of these changes will be the ability to quickly monitor the virus at a “population scale,” an effort that […]
Bringing a new baby into the family can be challenging. Older siblings may struggle with jealousy as the attention shifts to caring for a newborn, which is normal. Luckily for Brian Austin Green, his older kids have been “amazing” adjusting to baby Zane, whom he shares with girlfriend Sharna Burgess. “The kids are so amazing […]
People with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are at elevated risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease and stroke, suggests new research. In a prospective study, people with the subretinal drusenoid-deposit phenotype of AMD (SDD-AMD) were almost 10 times as likely also to have one or more high-risk vascular or cardiac diseases than people […]
Firefighting is a carcinogenic occupation that increases the risk of mesothelioma and bladder cancer, as well as potentially a host of other cancers, such as colon and prostate cancer, concludes an expert panel convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). A report regarding the study was published in The Lancet Oncology on […]
One of the greatest challenges facing cancer researchers is to understand why some patients don’t respond to treatments. In some cases, tumors exhibit what is known as multidrug resistance (MDR), which significantly limits the therapeutic options for patients. Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered one of the causes of MDR, […]
(Reuters) – Here is a rundown of possible treatments U.S. President Joe Biden will receive for COVID-19 and the risks he faces, having been infected most likely with the fast-spreading but less severe BA.5 variant. TREATMENTS At 79, the president falls into a high risk category for COVID but has the advantage of medical advances […]
Patients with Meniere disease (MD) have a greater risk for migraine occurrence, according to a study recently published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. So Young Kim, M.D., Ph.D., from CHA University in Seongnam, South Korea, and colleagues used the Korean National Health Insurance Service Health Screening Cohort (2002 to 2015) to identify 6,919 patients […]
(Reuters) – Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in many countries, spreading smoke that contains noxious gases, chemicals and particulate matter and carries serious health risks. More toxic than air pollution, wildfire smoke can linger in the air for weeks and travel hundreds of miles. Wildfires “are burning not only vegetative materials and trees […]
