Teen HPV Vaccine Rates Stall for First Time in a Decade
After rising steadily since 2013, new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations in teens stalled for the first time in 10 years, a CDC report showed. The proportion of 13- to 17-year-olds who received at least one dose of HPV vaccine in 2022 was essentially identical to 2021 (76.0% vs 76.9%, respectively), including when it came to […]
Opinion | Our Biggest Health Insurance Concern Isn’t What You Think
Only 8.3% of Americans were uninsured in 2021, a more-than 37% drop from 2013 (13.4%) — the year before the marketplace and Medicaid expansion created by the Affordable Care Act began. So why are nearly half of working age adults (46%) still skipping care or medications? Being uninsured is no longer our biggest problem, being […]