Opinion | ‘It Is a Horrifying Prospect’: What We Heard This Year
In place of our usual “What We Heard This Week” feature, and as part of our year-end wrap-ups, we’ve selected some of the best quotes our reporters heard in 2023. “It is a horrifying prospect that many more individuals could die because they will be forced to remain pregnant against their will.” — Jen Villavicencio, […]
Opinion | ‘This Is Why God Gave Us Two Arms’: What We Heard This Year
In place of our usual “What We Heard This Week” feature, and as part of our year-end wrap-ups, we’ve selected some of the best quotes our reporters heard in 2022. “This is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.” — White House […]
Black, Latinx Adults With Asthma Benefit from Inhaled Glucocorticoid Add-On
Black and Latinx patients who used an inhaled glucocorticoid as needed along with usual care had improved asthma outcomes, according to results from the PREPARE trial. In the study of patients with moderate-to-severe asthma, and compared to a control group that continued usual care only, the intervention group experienced a 15% decrease in risk of […]
U.S. Life Expectancy Takes Big Hit From COVID
Substantial decreases in mortality in 2020 from the usual big killers, including cancer, heart disease, and chronic lung diseases, ended up swamped by deaths from COVID-19, researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) confirmed. Overall life expectancy in the U.S. declined 1.5 years in 2020 versus 2019, from 78.8 to 77.3 — by […]