by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
New CDC data show that U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly visits to emergency departments for mental health issues in Fall 2022 compared to 2021, but teen suicide and overdose ED visit rates remain high. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted,...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidance on Thursday that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blo The change formally ends the FDA’s blood donor restrictionsfor men who have sex with men that originated during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Payers can and should be doing more to address health inequities, a new report by the United Hospital Fund says. The New York-based nonprofit aims for the report to serve as a road map for payers looking to do the work of elevating equity. Payers are uniquely...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Today marks the end of the public health emergency in the United States, more than three years after it was first declared to combat the novel coronavirus by unlocking powerful tools to detect and contain the emerging threat. Several core aspects of America’s...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweigh the potential risks.The 17-0 vote represents a major step forward in the decades-long...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Seventeen health systems including big names like CommonSpirit Health and Providence have signed onto a pledge that at least 10 percent of their new hires will hail from “economically disadvantaged areas” by 2027, according to a release from social determinants of...
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