Health Headlines for Thursday, September 14
U.S. suicide attempts up most among younger adults, less educated
Reuters
Young adults with low levels of education and people with mental health disorders bore the greatest burden of a recent increase in suicide attempts in the U.S., a new study shows.
Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes
New York Times
In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was once a proposal only of the far left: a huge expansion of Medicare, large enough to open the popular, government-run health program to all Americans.
The Crisis in Gynecological Cancer Research
New York Times
As an ovarian cancer patient whose life is being extended by a clinical trial, I was delighted to learn this summer that research on gynecological cancers is undergoing an unusually productive period. But I’m dismayed that at the same time there has been a steep decline in clinical trials available in the field.
Study Prompts Call to Examine Flu Vaccine and Miscarriages
NBC New York
A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots that included protection against swine flu.
Fidelis Care to be acquired by national health care firm
Daily Gazette
Fidelis Care, which provides health insurance to roughly 250,000 people in the Capital Region and maintains a large regional office in Latham, is being acquired by St. Louis-based health care giant Centene Corp. for $3.75 billion.