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    Though complications from the flu can be deadly for people who are especially vulnerable, including pregnant women and their newborns, typically only about half of pregnant women get the needed vaccination, U.S. statistics show.
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    Get Your Flu Shot Now, Doctors Advise, Especially If You're Pregnant

    Oct 21, 2019
    Pregnant women and people with chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are particularly vulnerable to flu complications yet lag the elderly in getting vaccinated.
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    Taking fish oil supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer may not be effective.
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    Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Disappoint In Long-Awaited Study Results

    Nov 10, 2018
    After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against heart disease or cancer.
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    Nearly 62 percent of respondents had at least one ACE and a quarter reported three or more. The remaining respondents had at least two ACEs, including 16 percent with four or more such experiences.
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    Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities

    Sep 17, 2018

    The largest study of its kind shows a high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences — or ACEs — across the population, but especially among some vulnerable groups.

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    Dolman and Kelly chat outside his mother's house in Northeast Washington after the house call.
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    Can Home Health Visits Help Keep People Out Of The ER?

    Jan 02, 2018
    Washington, D.C., is experimenting with providing home visits and telemedicine to people on Medicaid, with the goal of making it less likely they'll end up in the emergency room.
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    The program that pays for McBrayer's diabetes management supplies has saved the state of Minnesota more than $1 million in medical services over 10 years.
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    Health Insurers Try Paying More Up Front To Pay Less Later

    Jul 12, 2017
    Some businesses are keeping costs down for workers by removing deductibles for supplies needed to manage diabetes and other chronic conditions.
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    Stephenie Hashmi and her husband Shawn, at home. She had to leave a demanding nursing job in Kansas City six years ago when her systemic lupus flared and left her unable to work.
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    Long Waits And Long Odds For Those Who Need Social Security Disability

    Jun 13, 2017
    The U.S. government has been struggling to balance a surge in applicants for disability benefits with shrinking funds. An updated application process could make getting benefits even harder.
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    Roughly 2 million of the kids covered by the Children's Health Insurance Program have a chronic health condition, such as asthma.
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    Changes To Federal Insurance Plans Could Hurt Families Of Chronically Ill Kids

    Apr 25, 2017
    Some urge ending funding to the Children's Health Insurance Program, and moving those 8 million kids to marketplace plans. But research shows the out-of-pocket costs to many families would soar.
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    House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, says the latest version of the GOP bill would let states decide on required benefits.
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    Letting States Decide Health Coverage Could Make It Harder To Buy

    Mar 24, 2017
    House Republicans altered their health care bill to let states decide what coverage is required. That would make it harder to buy coverage for childbirth or chronic illness, analysts say.
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    By combining results of common blood tests, the researchers were able to come up with a way to predict risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases.
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    Common Blood Tests Can Help Predict Chronic Disease Risk

    Mar 17, 2017
    The creators of the risk assessment score say they want to help primary care physicians better identify patients who need extra counseling and follow-up.
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    Data from four countries suggests a link between starting menstruation by age 11 and earlier menopause.
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    An Early First Menstrual Period May Lead To Premature Menopause

    Jan 25, 2017
    Having a first period by age 11 and never having children were both associated with premature menopause, which this study defines as menopause by age 40.
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    Migraine headaches are one example of a chronic illness that typically doesn't respond to quick fixes.
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    For Many People, Medical Care Works Best When It's Incremental

    Jan 17, 2017
    We often imagine the best medical care as a miracle cure. Atul Gawande argues that for chronic illness, the best care may be a long, slow process of improving health a little bit at a time.
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    "The people that I know who have lost spouses, children, some of them are so ashamed that they wouldn't even acknowledge it as a cause of death," says A. Thomas McLellan, co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute.
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    Treating Addiction As A Chronic Disease

    Feb 25, 2016
    Reframing addiction as a chronic illness would help people get appropriate treatment and benefit the health care system, says A. Thomas McLellan, co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute.
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    African-American patients with chronic kidney disease were half as likely to use an electronic health portal than were non-black patients.
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    Online Health Tools Might Not Help The People Who Need It Most

    Oct 23, 2015
    An online portal to manage chronic kidney disease sounds great, but poor, older or black people were less likely to use it. That means the shift to e-health could make health disparities worse.
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    Johnny Reynolds ignored diabetes symptoms and put off going to the doctor for years when he didn't have health insurance. He was afraid he couldn't afford treatment.
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    States That Expand Medicaid Detect More Cases Of Diabetes

    Mar 23, 2015
    Researchers say their study suggests that more diabetes is being detected in particular states because, thanks to Medicaid, more poor people have access to screening and care.
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