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U.S. rising costs of health care coverage continue to put financial strain on even the privately insured

Wed, 2024-05-29 10:29 — mike kraft

 

Rising costs of health care coverage continue to put financial strain on even the privately insured By 2022, the share of Americans without health insurance had reached a record low of just under 8%. More than half the U.S. population, an estimated 180 million individuals (or 55%), were covered by private ... Jacqueline Mitchell Medical Xpress

...the financial burden of health care continues to contribute to stress, poverty, debt, bankruptcy and worse health outcomes even for those with private coverage.

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COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of gains in life expectancy--WHO

Tue, 2024-05-28 09:39 — mike kraft

 

WHO: COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of life expectancy gains The World Health Organization (WHO) published a new report suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic undid a decade of life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy gains (HALE), with global expectancy levels now matching those last seen in 2012. CIDRAP

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"Not only has the pandemic set back healthy longevity worldwide by years, it also reversed the previous trends of shifting disease burden to noncommunicable diseases," the report said.

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New study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID; incidence varies by region

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:27 — mike kraft
Study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID COVID-19 patients vaccinated against the novel coronavirus were less likely to have symptoms of post-COVID condition (PCC), or long COVID, according to a new study in Nature Communications. CIDRAP

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In other long-COVID research news, a study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases describes new estimates of long-COVID incidence and clinical study trends in a number of regions.

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WHO reports that the number of sexually transmitted infections has increased worldwide.

Wed, 2024-05-22 09:46 — mike kraft

 

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Analysis: Weathy countries earned billions from climate change programs for developing nations.

Wed, 2024-05-22 09:39 — mike kraft
Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found. Reuters
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Long-Use of COVID codes in health records may dramatically underestimate its prevalence

Tue, 2024-05-21 20:09 — mike kraft
Long-COVID codes in health record may dramatically underestimate its prevalence Long COVID is likely much more prevalent than indicated in electronic health record (EHR) diagnostic or referral codes, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers report in eClinicalMedicine. CIDRAP

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Hospitalized COVID patients 35% more likely to die than flu patients last winter -- study

Fri, 2024-05-17 10:32 — mike kraft

 

Hospital COVID patients 35% more likely to die than flu patients last winter, study suggests During the 2023-24 respiratory virus season, hospitalized US COVID-19 patients were at a 35% higher risk for death from any cause than those admitted for influenza, compared with a 61% higher risk the winter before, estimates a research letter published today in JAMA. CIDRAP

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Heart-failure patients have 82% better odds of living longer if vaccinated against COVID --study

Tue, 2024-05-14 09:57 — mike kraft
Data: Heart-failure patients have 82% better odds of living longer if vaccinated against COVID The first study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in a large population of adult heart-failure patients suggests that vaccinated participants are 82% more likely to live longer than their unvaccinated peers, according to an analysis presented over the weekend at the Heart Failure 2024 scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Lisbon, Portugal. CIDRAP

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U.K. faces worst oubreak of measles in 12 years

Fri, 2024-05-10 11:47 — mike kraft
Measles case confirmed as experts fear UK faces worst outbreak in 12 years A person who attended Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales has been found to have had measles as experts fear the UK faces the worst outbreak of the infection in 12 years tim-hanlon The Mirror

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Almost 900 cases of the virus have been recorded in 2024 so far, compared with 368 cases recorded 2023, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), meaning England has seen more cases of the disease in the first four months of this year, than in the whole of last year.

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Vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives over past half-century--study

Fri, 2024-05-10 10:45 — mike kraft

Researchers estimate vaccines have saved 154 million lives over past half-century

An international team of health and medical researchers including workers at the WHO, working with economists and modeling specialists, has found that the use of vaccines to prevent or treat disease has saved the lives of approximately 154 million people over the past half-century.

In their study, published in The Lancet, the group used mathematical and statistical modeling to develop estimates for lives saved due to vaccines and then added them together to find the total.

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