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Blogbeitrag#115. Mai 2024

Caregivers Share Views About How to Design Food Assistance Programs in Pediatric Clinics

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

A child's health depends on proper nutrition. As Food is Medicine initiatives expand across the country, community-based clinics face the challenge of designing programs that can best serve their patients. A recent study by LDI Senior Fellows Aditi Vasan, Senbagam Virudachalam, Chén Kenyon, and Alexander Fiks sought to understand caregiver preferences for food assistance programs. […]

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Blogbeitrag#211. April 2024

How Can We Improve Telemedicine for Patients with Gynecologic Cancer?

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Telemedicine use increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual visits are particularly helpful for patients with gynecologic cancers, such as endometrial and ovarian cancer, says LDI Associate Fellow Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, because more than 60% of U.S. counties do not have a gynecologic cancer specialist. With telemedicine, gynecologic cancer patients can get imaging and […]

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Blogbeitrag#38. April 2024

Transportation Remains a Big Barrier to Health Care

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Can a reliable ride to the hospital improve your health? In the world of health care, where every moment is crucial, missing out on essential medical care simply because of transportation can be life-threatening. This is the reality for the 3.6 million Americans who live with health-related transportation insecurity, according to the American Hospital Association's […]

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Blogbeitrag#42. April 2024

How U.S. Food Labels Compare To Those in France, Mexico and Chile

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Over 40 countries are using easy-to-grasp, front-of-package nutrition information to show which foods are healthier or not. The U.S. has so far not required these up-front labels, relying on the food industry's voluntary efforts that many people find confusing. The FDA has been doing consumer research with the goal of releasing the nation's first front-of-package […]

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Blogbeitrag#512. März 2024

Children in Poor Communities Experienced a Greater Increase in Obesity Rates During the Pandemic

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Consider the experience of two groups of children in different neighborhoods during the pandemic. One group's parents had a stable income to access healthy food, and they had space to play inside or outside without worrying about crime or COVID-19 transmission from neighbors. This group was able to stay active and maintain their health. During […]

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Blogbeitrag#68. Februar 2024

Chart of the Day: Rise in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Leaving Hospital Prematurely

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

LDI Senior and Associate Fellows Ashish Thakrar, Margaret (Maggie) Lowenstein, Ryan Greysen, and M. Kit Delgado found that more people with opioid use disorder are leaving the hospital prematurely (or before medically advised), compared to marginal increases for individuals admitted for other reasons. In the study, "Trends in Before Medically Advised Discharges for Patients with […]

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Blogbeitrag#77. Februar 2024

Surgeons Are Closer to Predicting Which Patients Need Post-Surgery Opioids—and Which Ones Don't

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Opioids are routinely prescribed to patients after a surgery—whether they use them or not. A new study, led by LDI Senior Fellow Anish Agarwal will help tailor prescribing so patients get the right amount of opioid medications; not too little and not too much. Unused opioids are a particular problem. Opioid misuse can start when […]

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Blogbeitrag#822. Januar 2024

The Struggle to Put Health Concerns in Front-of-Package Food Labeling

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

"A chance like this only comes every so often," says LDI Senior Fellow Christina Roberto, PhD when asked about the history and importance of the FDA's recent efforts to implement front-of-package food labels. The FDA's first food labels—specifically, back-of-package labels—arrived on products in 1994, listing the amount of fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, and protein, as […]

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Blogbeitrag#911. Januar 2024

Navigating Climate Perceptions Through Communication Strategies

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

2023 was the hottest recorded year on Earth. Despite the scientific evidence, public perceptions of climate change are more complex to understand. Recent research by LDI Senior Fellow Dolores Albarracín and colleague Timothy Hyde sheds light on a new factor in understanding how people think of climate change: exposure to record-breaking heat. The study "Record-Breaking […]

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Blogbeitrag#1011. Januar 2024

How to Ensure the NIH's Decision to Recognize People with Disabilities as a Health Disparity Population Makes a Difference

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

The following excerpt is from an op-ed that first appeared in STAT News on January 11th, 2024. My daughter Katie was born with severe disabilities. She went on to develop profound autism, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The hardest part for her is knowing that she's different but not understanding how or why. My career as […]

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Blogbeitrag#113. Januar 2024

LDI News That Caught Your Attention in 2023

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

As the new year begins we look back on some of the most heavily read LDI news stories published in 2023. They reflected many of health care policy's most pressing matters, including inadequate nurse staffing, the negative impact of hospital consolidation, health care flaws in prisons and jails, structural racism, drug pricing, the opioid epidemic, […]

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Blogbeitrag#1214. Dezember 2023

Texas Abortion Case Shows the Limits to Exceptions in Abortion Bans

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

The following excerpt is from an op-ed that first appeared in STAT News on December 13th, 2023. Imagine being in the midst of your pregnancy, and you learn that your baby is unlikely to live for more than a few fleeting moments after birth. There is no cure for their condition. Nothing can prevent their death. Most […]

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Blogbeitrag#135. Dezember 2023

Val Arkoosh, Pa.'s Human Services Head, Describes Her Strategy for Change

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

For someone who leads Pennsylvania's largest agency, Dr. Val Arkoosh takes a refreshing approach to her work. She starts by listening to understand where folks line up on issues that involve the vast Department of Human Services, which accounts for nearly half the state's $17.45 billion budget. She doesn't assume that problems are different between […]

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Blogbeitrag#1430. November 2023

Clearing the Air: Identifying and Addressing Lung Cancer Disparities in Philadelphia

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

The Philadelphia Lung Cancer Learning Community stands out as a rare example in modern health care, where partner groups from the largest hospital systems in one city collaborate to enhance their collective impact. Philadelphians have the highest smoking rate among large U.S. cities, with 20% of adults smoking cigarettes, and 89,000 individuals in the city […]

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Blogbeitrag#1517. November 2023

The Epidemic of Black Women Overdoses

Mackenzie Bolas

Mackenzie Bolas

Much of the attention surrounding the nationwide overdose crisis has focused on the substantial increase in overdose deaths among white men, and has more recently been extended to Black men and Native American individuals. However the impact of the opioid epidemic on Black women has not been widely studied or discussed, limiting the development of […]

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