Social Determinants of Health: News

• Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Not Federally Funded The researchers looked at key social needs areas and found major gaps between what interventions cost and what's covered by federal payers.
  MDedge News, June 02, 2023
• MDs With Chronic Illness Live in a Different Medical World Physicians with chronic illnesses face unique professional challenges, including resistance from other physicians when they seek treatment. But they also have a much richer understanding of their own patients.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• Genes Don't Explain Worse Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Black Men The prevalence of 'actionable' genes is similar across genomes of men from African, European, Asian, or mixed ancestry, suggesting that genomics alone can't account for racial disparities in outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• DDW 2023 Biologic-to-Biosimilar Switches Deemed Safe and Effective Triple switching from infliximab biologic to biosimilar for IBD found no new safety or efficacy concerns.
  MDedge News, June 01, 2023
• UK Govt Given Time to Hand Over Boris Johnson COVID Messages British ministers have been given more time to hand over unredacted messages from former prime minister Boris Johnson to a public inquiry looking into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, May 30, 2023
• Patient With Blood Cancer Takes on Bias and 'Gaslighting' After having her concerns dismissed by her doctor, a woman diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma partnered with the Lymphoma Research Foundation to spread the word about unique challenges facing patients.
  MDedge News, June 01, 2023
• COVID Nonvaccination Linked With Avoidable Hospitalizations Compared with patients who were vaccinated and boosted, unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 had a 21-fold greater risk for hospitalization, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2023
• Traditional Mexican Food Has Health Benefits Many Mexican dishes and drinks are high in phenolic compounds and associated with better health status.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2023
• Parent Survey of Children With Gender Dysphoria Retracted Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.
  Retraction Watch, May 30, 2023
• Cornea Donation Rules May Ease for Gay, Bisexual Men The FDA's decision to eliminate screening based on sexual orientation for blood donation underscores the need to overhaul discriminatory policies for cornea donation, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2023
• How Has Cannabis Legalization Affected Pregnant Mothers? Emergency department or hospital care for cannabis-related issues has increased and is associated with an increased risk for negative neonatal outcomes such as preterm birth and low birth weight.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2023
• Lesbian, Bisexual Women Less Likely to Have Ideal CVD Health New research suggests lesbian and bisexual women have worse cardiovascular health than do heterosexual women and should be a priority for CVD prevention.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2023
• ASCO 2023 Medicaid Expansion Closing Racial Gap in GI Cancer Deaths New nationwide data show that Medicaid expansion is associated with more treatment and a reduction in the death rate from gastrointestinal cancers among Black patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2023
• ASCO 2023 Phone Coach Helps Weight Loss in Patients With Breast Cancer Patients with breast cancer enrolled in a telephone-based weight loss program had clinically meaningful weight loss compared with the control group.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2023
• ECO 2023 Gut Bacteria in Toddlers Predictive of Later Weight Gain Gut microbiota at age 3.5 years is linked to increased BMI at 5 years, and the type and diversity of bacterial species are reflective of the microbiota of adults with obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2023
• SPARTAN 2023 AxSpA Effects May Be More Severe for Black Patients A higher percentage of Black patients had elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and hip involvement in a small study. Black patients also had higher grades of sacroiliitis.
  MDedge News, May 24, 2023
• Women at Higher Risk for Inflation-Related Stress New findings indicate which groups are more likely to have inflation-related stress but do not clarify the relationship between this stress and disparities in health outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2023
• APA 2023 US Psychiatrist Shortage Causing Months-Long Wait Times New patients seeking an outpatient appointment with a psychiatrist may have to wait more than 2 months for an in-person visit and more than a month for a telehealth visit.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2023
• Britain Plugs Nursing Gaps With International Staff Britain recruited a record number of international nurses in the last financial year to plug hospital staffing shortages, with as many as 10% coming from so-called 'red-list' countries where health staff should not be actively recruited.
  Reuters Health Information, May 23, 2023
• ACOG 2023 The Doctor (and the Lawyer) Will See You Now Pairing attorneys with an urban ob/gyn clinic is improving the lives of women and their babies, a new study has found.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2023