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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, exercise, Healthy Eating, mental health, Nutrition, Obesity, Parenting, Weight Loss, Weight management
Kids With Obesity Need Acceptance From Family and Friends, Not Just Better Diet Tips, to Succeed at Managing Their Weight
Read More: Kids With Obesity Need Acceptance From Family and Friends, Not Just Better Diet Tips, to Succeed at Managing Their WeightBy Amanda Harrist, Oklahoma State University and Laura Hubbs-Tait, Oklahoma State University Hundreds of programs over the past four decades โ from the removal of junk food from school vending machines to Michelle Obama’s โLet’s Move” campaign โ have tried to get kids in the U.S. to eat healthier food and exercise more often. But…
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The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder for One in Three Americans to Obtain Healthy, Affordable Food
Read More: The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder for One in Three Americans to Obtain Healthy, Affordable FoodBy The Conversation, CC BY-ND COVID-19 has made food access more challenging for many communities. In Michigan State University’s Fall 2021 Food Literacy and Engagement Poll, 31% of the people we talked to said the pandemic had affected their household’s ability to obtain food. This included 28% of households earning less than $25,000, and 38%…
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An Infectious Disease Expert Explains New Federal Rules on โMix-and-Matchโ Vaccine Booster Shots
Read More: An Infectious Disease Expert Explains New Federal Rules on โMix-and-Matchโ Vaccine Booster ShotsBy Glenn J. Rapsinski, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Many Americans now have the green light to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster โ and the flexibility to receive a different brand than the original vaccine they received. On the heels of the Food and Drug Administration’s Sept. 22, 2021, emergency use authorization of a third…
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โDown to My Last Diaperโ: The Anxiety of Parenting in Poverty
Read More: โDown to My Last Diaperโ: The Anxiety of Parenting in PovertyBy Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News For parents living in poverty, โdiaper math” is a familiar and distressingly pressing daily calculation. Babies in the U.S. go through six to 10 disposable diapers a day, at an average cost of $70 to $80 a month. Name-brand diapers with high-end absorption sell for as much as a…
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Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School Challenges
Read More: Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School ChallengesBy Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News LOS ANGELES โ Christopher Manzo, a boy with curly brown hair and bright-blue-and-yellow glasses, has lived a third of his five years at home because of the pandemic. And he is more than ready for kindergarten. Hand in hand with his mother, Martha Manzo, he walks into the…
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HealthyWomen Is a Proud Convener on the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project (CVEEP)
Read More: HealthyWomen Is a Proud Convener on the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project (CVEEP)The COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project (CVEEP) was established in December 2020 by the Alliance for Aging Research, HealthyWomen and the National Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc. The project is composed of more than 200 leading organizations representing patient, provider, employer and public health organizations. This group has been convening dialogue among…
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Yes, We Should Be Keeping the Healthier Hand-Washing Habits We Developed at the Start of the Pandemic
Read More: Yes, We Should Be Keeping the Healthier Hand-Washing Habits We Developed at the Start of the PandemicBy Melissa Hawkins, American University People were washing their hands so much early in the pandemic that sensitive skin and soap shortages were common problems in 2020. All this focus on hand-washing was for good reason. The science uniformly demonstrates that frequent hand-washing reduces the risk of a variety of illnesses. It is low-hanging fruit…
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Simple Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treating After Fauci Greenlighted Halloween 2021
Read More: Simple Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treating After Fauci Greenlighted Halloween 2021By Meg Sorg, Purdue University The air is getting chillier, pumpkins are perched on porches and kids across the country are planning their spooky costumes. As a professor of pediatric nursing and a mom to four young children, I know the excitement and anxiety that pandemic holidays bring to children and parents alike. Halloween 2020…
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Clinical trials, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical research and clinical trials, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
How Many Lives Have Coronavirus Vaccines Saved? We Used State Data on Deaths and Vaccination Rates to Find Out
Read More: How Many Lives Have Coronavirus Vaccines Saved? We Used State Data on Deaths and Vaccination Rates to Find OutBy CC BY-ND More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine with the expectation that the vaccines slow virus transmission and save lives. Researchers know the efficacy of the vaccines from large-scale clinical trials, the gold standard for medical research. The studies found the vaccines to be…
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15 minutes with, Access, Clinical trials, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Health disparities, Hivaids, Lgbtq, Racial disparities, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
15 Minutes With Phyllis Greenberger
Read More: 15 Minutes With Phyllis GreenbergerWe are honored to have Phyllis Greenberger on our team as senior vice president of policy, advocacy and science for HealthyWomen. A women’s health pioneer, Greenberger received the 2021 Perennial Hero Award from the Alliance for Aging Research in September. The award honors an older individual who is actively contributing to creating positive societal change…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health disparities, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Racial disparities, Research, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Read More: Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of UrbanitesBy Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts โ a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated. While the…
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Who Qualifies for a Covid Booster? The List Is Growing Longer
Read More: Who Qualifies for a Covid Booster? The List Is Growing LongerOn Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said people whose jobs put them at risk of coronavirus infection qualify for a shot to boost the protection of their covid-19 vaccination. That step to include people with โinstitutional and occupational exposure” overrules the recommendation of her agency’s advisory panel, and the move…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Can Healthy People Who Eat Right and Exercise Skip the Covid-19 Vaccine? A Research Scientist and Fitness Enthusiast Explains Why the Answer Is No
Read More: Can Healthy People Who Eat Right and Exercise Skip the Covid-19 Vaccine? A Research Scientist and Fitness Enthusiast Explains Why the Answer Is NoBy Richard Bloomer, University of Memphis I’m a fitness enthusiast. I also adhere to a nutrient-dense, โclean” eating program, which means I minimize my sugar intake and eat a lot of whole foods for the purpose of optimizing my health. You might wonder how effective such a diet and exercise plan would be in the…
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Changing Your Mind About Something as Important as Vaccination Isnโt a Sign of Weakness โ Being Open to New Information Is the Smart Way to Make Choices
Read More: Changing Your Mind About Something as Important as Vaccination Isnโt a Sign of Weakness โ Being Open to New Information Is the Smart Way to Make ChoicesArt Markman, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and negatively labeled as โflip-floppers” or โwishy-washy” when they change what they think. While the courage of convictions can be a plus in situations…
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Evidence Shows That, Yes, Masks Prevent COVID-19 โ and Surgical Masks Are the Way to Go
Read More: Evidence Shows That, Yes, Masks Prevent COVID-19 โ and Surgical Masks Are the Way to GoBy Laura (Layla) H. Kwong, University of California, Berkeley Do masks work? And if so, should you reach for an N95, a surgical mask, a cloth mask or a gaiter? Over the past year and a half, researchers have produced a lot of laboratory, model-based and observational evidence on the effectiveness of masks. For many…
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Anxiety, Career, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Fatigue, Health care professionals, mental health, Retirement, Stress
Nurses Are Leaving the Profession, and Replacing Them Wonโt Be Easy
Read More: Nurses Are Leaving the Profession, and Replacing Them Wonโt Be EasyBy Rayna M Letourneau, University of South Florida The fourth wave of COVID-19 is exacerbating the ongoing crisis for the nursing workforce and has led to burnout for many nurses. As a result, many are quitting their jobs in substantial numbers all across the country, with 62% of hospitals reporting a nurse vacancy rate higher…
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Access, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health disparities, Health policy, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Are COVID-19 Boosters Ethical, With Half the World Waiting for a First Shot? A Bioethicist Weighs In
Read More: Are COVID-19 Boosters Ethical, With Half the World Waiting for a First Shot? A Bioethicist Weighs InBy Nancy S. Jecker, University of Washington Should countries that can afford COVID-19 booster vaccines offer them to residents if scientists recommend them? The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has made his position clear, calling for countries to impose a moratorium on boosters until 10% of people in every country are…
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Forceful Vaccine Messages Backfire With Holdouts โ How Can It Be Done Better?
Read More: Forceful Vaccine Messages Backfire With Holdouts โ How Can It Be Done Better?By S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world have renewed their push to increase the number of vaccinated individuals by persuading the holdouts. On Sept. 9, 2021, President Joe Biden announced sweeping vaccine mandates, expressing frustration at…
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Whoโs Covered by a Vaccine Mandate? Hereโs a Quick Guide to Americaโs Patchwork of COVID-19 Shot Requirements
Read More: Whoโs Covered by a Vaccine Mandate? Hereโs a Quick Guide to Americaโs Patchwork of COVID-19 Shot RequirementsBy Debbie Kaminer, Baruch College, CUNY President Joe Biden’s orders requiring vaccinations for about two-thirds of the U.S. workforce add to a patchwork of vaccine mandates aimed at pushing more people to get their shots and bring the pandemic under control. The president had largely resisted issuing federal mandates, but in recent months, many states,…
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What Young Kids Say Worked โ and Didnโt Work โ for Them During Virtual Learning
Read More: What Young Kids Say Worked โ and Didnโt Work โ for Them During Virtual LearningMari Altshuler, Northwestern University On Aug. 30, 2021, my kid joined millions of children in walking through school doors as he began first grade. Despite the ongoing pandemic, school buildings are almost universally open. While there are many voices expressing health and safety concerns, policymakers have decided that the best choice for children’s well-being is…
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At My Hospital, Over 95% of Covid-19 Patients Share One Thing in Common: Theyโre Unvaccinated
Read More: At My Hospital, Over 95% of Covid-19 Patients Share One Thing in Common: Theyโre UnvaccinatedBy Nicholas Johnson, University of Washington The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here. As an emergency medicine and critical care doctor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, I’ve lost…
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Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis for Communities of Color
Read More: Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis for Communities of ColorBy Aneri Pattani, Kaiser Health News This story is a collaboration between KHN and โScience Friday.” Listen to the conversation between KHN national correspondent Aneri Pattani and John Dankosky, Science Friday’s director of news and radio projects. Rafiah Maxie has been a licensed clinical social worker in the Chicago area for a decade. Throughout that…
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What Happens When the Covid-19 Vaccines Enter the Body โ a Road Map for Kids and Grown-ups
Read More: What Happens When the Covid-19 Vaccines Enter the Body โ a Road Map for Kids and Grown-upsBy Glenn J Rapsinski, University of Pittsburgh Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How does a COVID-19 vaccine work in the body? โ Wixy, age 12, New York The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus,…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Family planning, Fertility, Pregnancy, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations
Pregnant or Worried About Infertility? Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19
Read More: Pregnant or Worried About Infertility? Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19By Matthew Woodruff, Emory University As the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 surges across the U.S., almost 1 in 5 Americans continue to resist getting shots that are widely available, safe and effective โ particularly for preventing the most severe outcomes of the virus. While people have many different justifications for not getting the shot, one…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, School, Stress, Teen
Students Are Returning to School With Anxiety, Grief and Gaps in Social Skills โ Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources?
Read More: Students Are Returning to School With Anxiety, Grief and Gaps in Social Skills โ Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources?By Sandra M. Chafouleas, University of Connecticut and Amy Briesch, Northeastern University Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among children and adolescents during the pandemic. One reason is…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy home, Medical tests, Parenting, Parenting teens, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Getting Caught Up on Back-to-School Vaccines
Read More: Getting Caught Up on Back-to-School VaccinesMorgan Aten’s son Isaac was due for his seven-year annual checkup in March 2020 โ just as the country was shutting down because of Covid-19. “We ended up missing it,” Aten said. But when Aten’s other son Arthur was due for his three-year checkup in July of last year, their pediatrician let Aten bring Isaac…
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Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy home, Medical tests, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Tips for a Safe and Healthy Return to School
Read More: Tips for a Safe and Healthy Return to SchoolKate Schultz, a high school teacher from Madison, WI, has made back-to-school preparations many times since she started teaching 20 years ago, but never quite like this. Going back to the classroom looks very different in the age of Covid-19, and Schultz is planning accordingly. She knows her students may be stressed about the virus,…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Affordable care act, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health care, Health insurance, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Can Health Insurance Companies Charge the Unvaccinated Higher Premiums? What About Life Insurers? 5 Questions Answered
Read More: Can Health Insurance Companies Charge the Unvaccinated Higher Premiums? What About Life Insurers? 5 Questions AnsweredBy Kosali Simon, Indiana University and Sharon Tennyson, Cornell University The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. is mostly affecting unvaccinated Americans, who represent more than 95% of current cases of hospitalization and death. Given the average cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020 ran about US$42,200 per patient, will the unvaccinated be asked to…
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Why We Missed Hugs
Read More: Why We Missed HugsBy Kory Floyd, University of Arizona Rose Gagnon could not hug her grandchildren for several months. Not being able to see and touch her loved ones every day because of COVID-19’s social distancing protocols was taking a toll on the mental health of the 85-year-old. Like many, she was feeling lonely and yearning for an…
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Female Scientists Set Back by the Pandemic May Never Make up Lost Time
Read More: Female Scientists Set Back by the Pandemic May Never Make up Lost TimeBy Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California During the COVID-19 quarantines, scientists, like most professionals, took their work home. Women researchers, however, bore the disproportionate burden of caregiving responsibilities, forcing a drop in their productivity. Although this decrease may be temporary, my research suggests the hit to women’s reputations and their scientific impacts may compound…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy home, mental health, Midlife parenting, Parenting, Parenting teens, Stress
5 Tips From a Play Therapist to Help Kids Express Themselves and Unwind
Read More: 5 Tips From a Play Therapist to Help Kids Express Themselves and UnwindBy Jessie D. Guest, University of South Carolina As many children go back to school after 18 months of global pandemic, social isolation and on-and-off remote learning, they too are feeling the additional stress and uncertainty of these times. Children need play to decompress and communicate in ways that are meaningful to them. Play is…
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Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine Isnโt Just Immoral โ Itโs โUn-Americanโ
Read More: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine Isnโt Just Immoral โ Itโs โUn-AmericanโBy Christopher Beem, Penn State Decades ago I helped organize a conference that brought together vaccine skeptics and public health officials. The debate centered on what governments can and cannot demand from citizens, and what behaviors one can rightly expect from others. It took place many years before the current coronavirus pandemic, but many things…
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Hereโs Why the CDC Recommends Wearing Masks Indoors Even if Youโve Been Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Read More: Hereโs Why the CDC Recommends Wearing Masks Indoors Even if Youโve Been Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19By Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco Vaccinated people need to mask up again, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On July 27, 2021, the CDC recommended that everyone in areas with high COVID-19 infection rates wear masks in public indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status. It’s a reversal from…
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Anxiety, Breast cancer, Breastfeeding, Coronavirus, COVID-19, mental health, Parenting, Self-Care, Stress
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Read More: With a Little Help from Our FriendsIn 2013, Melissa Berry was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. “It’s a very aggressive form, and there were some pretty bad white-knuckle moments where I didn’t know what my prognosis was going to be,” Berry, now 50, recalled. She credits her friends as helping get her through her treatments. Berry has a group of…
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Should Fully Immunized People Wear Masks Indoors? An Infectious Disease Physician Weighs In
Read More: Should Fully Immunized People Wear Masks Indoors? An Infectious Disease Physician Weighs InBy Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco With the highly infectious delta coronavirus variant spreading at an alarming rate, the World Health Organization in late June 2021 urged people to again wear masks indoors โ even those who are fully vaccinated. And on July 15, Los Angeles County, California, announced that it would again…
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Acceso a atenciรณn mรฉdica, Atenciรณn mรฉdica, Condiciones crรณnicas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cuidados preventivos, Desigualdades de la salud, Desigualdades raciales, Diabetes, Enfermedad cardรญaca, Obesidad, Polรญtica, Profesionales mรฉdicos
Lo que debe saber sobre la obesidad
Read More: Lo que debe saber sobre la obesidadEste artรญculo es parte del proyecto conjunto Recupere su bienestar de HealthyWomen y Black Women’s Health Imperative. Revisado por Ariana Chao, Ph.D. La obesidad es una enfermedad que afecta al 41.9% de las mujeres en Estados Unidos, muchas de las cuales tienen otras condiciones mรฉdicas causadas o empeoradas por la obesidad. Si usted o algรบn…
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Acceso a atenciรณn mรฉdica, Atenciรณn mรฉdica, Condiciones crรณnicas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cuidados preventivos, Desigualdades de la salud, Desigualdades raciales, Diabetes, Enfermedad cardรญaca, Investigaciรณn, Obesidad, Polรญtica, Profesionales mรฉdicos
Factores ambientales y sociales, no solo dieta y ejercicio, factores que contribuyen con la obesidad
Read More: Factores ambientales y sociales, no solo dieta y ejercicio, factores que contribuyen con la obesidadEste artรญculo es parte del proyecto conjunto Recupere su bienestar de HealthyWomen y Black Women’s Health Imperative. En la escuela primaria, una enfermera escolar le dijo a Kylie* que estaba “demasiado” gorda. Para cuando alcanzรณ la adolescencia, un pediatra le dijo que pierda peso. “Es verdad, era un poquito gorda”, dijo Kylie, “pero solo tenรญa…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical tests, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Delta Variant Makes It Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, Even if Youโve Already Had the Coronavirus
Read More: Delta Variant Makes It Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, Even if Youโve Already Had the CoronavirusBy Jennifer T. Grier, University of South Carolina As someone who studies immune responses to respiratory infections, I’ve watched news of the emerging coronavirus variants with concern. I wondered whether vaccination or previous infection would provide protection against SARS-CoV-2 strains, especially the new, highly transmissible delta variant, which has rapidly spread to at least 70…
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How to Cope With the World Opening Up When You’re Still Mourning Covid Losses
Read More: How to Cope With the World Opening Up When You’re Still Mourning Covid LossesWith nearly 50% of its adult population fully vaccinated, the United States has generously eased its Covid-19 restrictions, with most states no longer even requiring masks indoors. The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is finally in view, and it seems we can at last begin to enjoy some semblance of normalcy. This…
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The Neuroscience Behind Why Your Brain May Need Time to Adjust to โUn-Social Distancingโ
Read More: The Neuroscience Behind Why Your Brain May Need Time to Adjust to โUn-Social DistancingโBy Kareem Clark, Virginia Tech With COVID-19 vaccines working and restrictions lifting across the country, it’s finally time for those now vaccinated who’ve been hunkered down at home to ditch the sweatpants and reemerge from their Netflix caves. But your brain may not be so eager to dive back into your former social life. Social…
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Access, Access to health care, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health care, Health disparities, Health insurance, Keep the care, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Research
Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWII
Read More: Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWIILiz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Although James Toussaint has never had covid, the pandemic is taking a profound toll on his health. First, the 57-year-old lost his job delivering parts for a New Orleans auto dealership in spring 2020, when the local economy shut down. Then, he fell behind on his rent. Last month, Toussaint…
