Doctors and health officials say more children in the state are growing up with wildfire, which can cause stress, depression, anxiety, and other lasting trauma. Experts say there are ways to help kids stay calm.
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CDC awards Mount Sinai $2.4M to support aging 9/11 first responders
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has received $2.4 million from the CDC to study how to best care for aging 9/11 first responders.
New findings reinforce lingering virus as long COVID-19 cause: 3 latest updates
A new study from researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School found the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may linger in long COVID-19 patients’ blood for up to a year after infection. The findings reinforce a leading theory among scientists t…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Judge Takes Aim at the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Care Benefits
A federal judge in Texas — the same one who tried to strike down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional in 2018 — has ruled against some of the ACA’s preventive benefits, including the requirement that employers cover medication to prevent HIV. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tries to make abortions slightly more available to veterans and their dependents. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Lauren Sausser, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment.
34 states reporting BA.2.75 cases
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have reported cases of the newest omicron subvariant, BA.2.75, as of Sept. 8, up from 20 states a month prior, disease surveillance data shows.
The mystery of omicron’s stalled growth
The proportions of COVID-19 variants circulating nationwide have been relatively constant over the past five weeks, and health experts are uncertain as to why, ABC News reported Sept. 6.
55% of men don’t get routine health screenings: 4 Cleveland Clinic survey findings
More than half of men aren’t proactive when it comes to their health and knowing their family health history, according to a survey of more than 1,000 men led by Cleveland Clinic.
Physicians worry lookalike labels on original, updated COVID-19 shots may lead to errors: 3 notes on new boosters
Labels on the original COVID-19 vaccines and the updated boosters are very similar, leaving some physicians concerned people will mistakenly receive the wrong shots, NBC News reported Sept. 6.
‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets
Three women explain how life’s surprises can catapult their efforts to carefully manage limited budgets and lead to financial distress.
How disease outbreaks made wastewater surveillance more targeted
Wastewater surveillance, a key tool used by health officials to monitor the spread of COVID-19, is now becoming key in monkeypox and polio outbreak investigations, CNN reported Sept. 5.
