WASHINGTON
– U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Roger Wicker
(R-MS) sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging Acting National Institute of
Health (NIH) Director Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak to expand funding opportunities for
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In 2020, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44 percent for Black* people and 39 percent for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people compared with 2019, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report with drug...
Between 1995 and 2018, non-Hispanic White and Hispanic women in the United States experienced the greatest increases in early-onset pancreatic cancer (EOPC) incidence, according to study results published in Gastroenterology. Researchers extracted data from the North...
Poor children at risk of death in pediatric ICU. Credit: ATS Hospitalized children covered by Medicaid who reside in the poorest neighborhoods are at increased risk of being admitted to the hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and of dying while there,...
HealthDay News — During the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, structural racism and community unemployment were associated with an increased risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and preterm birth (PTB), according to a study...
