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Want vulnerable Californians to have healthier pregnancies? Doulas say the state must pay up.

This was supposed to be the year that low-income Californians could hire a doula to guide them through pregnancy and advocate for them in the hospital.

15 Mar 2022

UC San Diego receives $38 million USAID grant to address gender equity and health issues

The U.S. Agency for International Development has funded a $38 million, five-year project led by the Center on Gender Equity and Health at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

14 Mar 2022

AI-powered apps are associated with reduced risk to business during the pandemic

A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) apps helped protect small and medium-sized businesses against many of the risks that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic – yet only a quarter of small firms currently use them.

4 Mar 2022

Automation linked to increasing mortality rate among America's working-age adults

The automation of U.S. manufacturing — robots replacing people on factory floors — is fueling rising mortality rate among America's working-age adults, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

3 Mar 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A health-heavy State of the Union

Russia's attacks on Ukraine took the headlines for President Joe Biden's first official State of the Union address, but Biden made a point to highlight several of the administration's high-priority health issues, including covid, mental health, nursing home regulation, and ailments among military personnel from toxic burn pits.

3 Mar 2022

HIV preventive care is supposed to be free in the US. so, why are some patients still paying?

Anthony Cantu, 31, counsels patients at a San Antonio health clinic about a daily pill shown to prevent HIV infection.

3 Mar 2022

Biden pledges better nursing home care, but he likely won’t fast-track it

President Joe Biden's top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won't be issued under a4 mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately.

3 Mar 2022

The demise of single-payer in California trips up efforts in other states

Single-payer health care didn't stand a chance in California this year. Even in this deep-blue bastion, Democratic lawmakers shied away from legislation that would have put state government in charge of health care and taxed Californians heavily to do so — a massive transformation that would have forced them to take on the powerful health care industry.

28 Feb 2022

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron likely due to immune selective pressure

A new study discusses the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 that can escape antibody-mediated neutralization, as opposed to other Sarbecoviruses.

27 Feb 2022

New analysis highlights the changes in U.S. health care workforce during COVID-19 pandemic

A new analysis from Indiana University, the nonprofit Rand Corp. and the University of Michigan highlights the changes in the U.S. health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that the average wages for U.S. health care workers rose less than wages in other industries during 2020 and the first six months of 2021.

25 Feb 2022

An $80,000 tab for newborns lays out a loophole in the new law to curb surprise bills

When Greg and Sugar Bull were ready to start a family, health challenges necessitated that they work with a gestational surrogate. The woman who carried and gave birth to their twins lived two states away.

23 Feb 2022

Labor neuraxial analgesia associated with reduced risk of severe maternal morbidity

In a study of vaginal births in New York State hospitals, labor neuraxial analgesia – having an epidural or combined spinal and epidural-; was associated with a decreased risk of severe maternal morbidity.

22 Feb 2022

Omicron surge linked to rise in January unemployment

Unemployment rose for people with and without disabilities as the surge in the omicron variant affected the labor market in January, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) COVID Update.

21 Feb 2022

More than half of unemployed American in their 30s have criminal records

More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested or convicted of a crime, a stigma that poses a barrier to them participating in the nation's labor force, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

18 Feb 2022

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants in unvaccinated and vaccinated U.S. military

Researchers discuss the genomic and virological characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants among unvaccinated and vaccinated U.S military personnel.

16 Feb 2022

New system produces a 3D interactive map of arrhythmia hotspots in the heart

A new way of treating arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF) -; the most common heart arrhythmia diagnosis in clinical practice -; has debuted at UC San Diego Health.

14 Feb 2022

The serious risks COVID-19 may pose during pregnancy

Researchers report on the potential for serious maternal illness or death during or following a pregnancy complicated by COVID-19.

9 Feb 2022

Maternity health care workers show deeper levels of anguish, fear about work during the pandemic

In general, the challenges of being a health care provider and the risks for potential COVID-19 infection are acknowledged, but it's less clear how COVID risk mitigation strategies in hospitals impact maternity health care workers.

8 Feb 2022

Sentinel cards found to be effective for indoor SARS-CoV-2 monitoring

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, a team of researchers used sentinel cards for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) monitoring in schools where individual-level sampling is tedious due to privacy or compliance reasons and higher cost.

6 Feb 2022

Expanded Child Tax Credit did not lead to employment declines, analysis shows

An analysis of Census Pulse Survey data from the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis shows that the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) did not cause an exit from the labor force.

3 Feb 2022

Labor News and Research

Want vulnerable Californians to have healthier pregnancies? Doulas say the state must pay up.

UC San Diego receives $38 million USAID grant to address gender equity and health issues

AI-powered apps are associated with reduced risk to business during the pandemic

Automation linked to increasing mortality rate among America's working-age adults

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A health-heavy State of the Union

HIV preventive care is supposed to be free in the US. so, why are some patients still paying?

Biden pledges better nursing home care, but he likely won’t fast-track it

The demise of single-payer in California trips up efforts in other states

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron likely due to immune selective pressure

New analysis highlights the changes in U.S. health care workforce during COVID-19 pandemic

An $80,000 tab for newborns lays out a loophole in the new law to curb surprise bills

Labor neuraxial analgesia associated with reduced risk of severe maternal morbidity

Omicron surge linked to rise in January unemployment

More than half of unemployed American in their 30s have criminal records

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants in unvaccinated and vaccinated U.S. military

New system produces a 3D interactive map of arrhythmia hotspots in the heart

The serious risks COVID-19 may pose during pregnancy

Maternity health care workers show deeper levels of anguish, fear about work during the pandemic

Sentinel cards found to be effective for indoor SARS-CoV-2 monitoring

Expanded Child Tax Credit did not lead to employment declines, analysis shows

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Exploring the G:Box and for high-quality imaging

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