Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade....
Month: March 2021
Can Vaccination and Infection Rates Add Up to Reach Covid Herd Immunity?
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News It’s been a long, dark winter of covid concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case...
Role Reversal: Covid Increases Ranks of Child Caregivers
Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News LONG BEACH — On a recent Thursday afternoon, Rhianna Alvarado struggled to don her...
Doctors Debate Use of Blood Thinners to Prevent Clots in Women After C-Sections
Harris Meyer Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York...
Improving Dental Aesthetics and Preservation of Tooth Structure
Cosmetic crowns are a mainstay in dentistry for the previous hundred decades. To get a crown to remain on (retention),...
Best Tips to know How to choose a Cardiologist in 2021
Just understanding that you will need to visit a cardiologist could be worrisome. If you're like most patients, your primary...
How Covid Has Changed Our Movement, as Revealed by Your Cellphone
For all of our grousing about covid fatigue, a few novel trends are clear one year into the pandemic. In...
For Spring Season, Young Athletes Get Back in the Game Despite Covid Risk
This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter...
‘Painless’ Glucose Monitors Pushed Despite Little Evidence They Help Most Diabetes Patients
In the nation’s battle against the diabetes epidemic, the go-to weapon being aggressively promoted to patients is as small as...
A Year Into the Pandemic, Three Huge Losses in One Family
In the year since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, millions of families have endured the excruciating rise...
Covid Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going...
The Boom in Out-of-State Telehealth Threatens In-State Providers
Matt Volz HELENA, Mont. — When the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation began offering telehealth services in Montana in early February,...
