Health Headlines for Monday, July 24
New York’s Great Health Care Debate
City & State
With the Obamacare debate still raging on Capitol Hill, two leading health care experts had a debate of their own, over the creation of a single-payer system here in New York.
HIV fight advances with new drug cocktails, fresh vaccine hopes
Reuters
Three decades after approval of the first-ever AIDS treatment, HIV medicine is seeing a new wave of innovation with scientists reporting positive data on Monday for improved drug cocktails and a novel experimental vaccine.
Parents often make follow-up care mistakes after kids leave hospital
Reuters
When sick kids leave the hospital, parents often don’t understand what follow-up care is needed or how to give children medicine at home, a research review suggests.
Single-payer won’t solve health care problems
Lockport Union-Sun and Journal
Democrats in Albany have been touting a mind-bogging universal health care plan which they claim would not only would cost nothing more but it might make the Empire State $45 billion richer.
Clinical trials for cancer could use more older people
Washington Post
More than 60 percent of cancer patients are older adults — and that will rise to 70 percent by 2040. Yet seniors are underrepresented in clinical trials, making it difficult to assess how treatments are likely to help or harm them.
The Subtle Signs of a Thyroid Disorder
New York Times
Problems with estrogen and testosterone, the body’s main sex hormones, tend to attract widespread public interest.