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🧵In this week’s #HealthNewsRoundup: How some researchers are tackling medical skepticism, community health worker services growing across the country, progress in pulse oximeter racial bias, Vermont’s problems with cost of care, and strict abortion bans impact women’s health.
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Vermont ranks among the healthiest states, and its unemployment and uninsured rates are among the lowest. However, Vermonters also pay the highest prices nationwide for health care coverage. By @philgalewitz via @KFFHealthNews kffhealthnews.org/MTkzMDYxNg

In Vermont, Where Almost Everyone Has Insurance, Many Can’t Find or Afford Care - KFF Health News

Vermont has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the U.S., even though its residents pay some of the highest health insurance costs. Still, most of its hospitals are losing money and patients often...

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More restrictive abortion laws in some states have led some doctors and medical students to leave those states. The vacancies are contributing to a maternity care access crisis. By @thebritfarmer via @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/how-strict-…

How strict abortion bans threaten health care for all women

In some states, overturning Roe v. Wade has impacted health care for women, regardless of whether they are pregnant.

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🧵In this week’s #HealthNewsRoundup: Black Americans suffer worse health outcomes, health coverage expanded to DACA recipients in CT, Medicaid unwinding puts people with opioid addiction at risk, infant mortality worse, and research into using race in clinical algorithms.
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Should race be used in clinical algorithms? How one doctor’s research is helping shape policy. By @KatieMPalmer via @statnews statnews.com/2024/10/31/jame…

Should race be used in clinical algorithms? How one doctor's research is helping shape policy

STAT Wunderkind @JamesADiao has helped shape policy decisions with his research on the role of race in clinical algorithms. Read his story:

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🧵In this week’s #HealthNewsRoundup: Black patients less likely to receive some pain meds, advocating for Black maternal health, payments for abortion care in CT fall short, adult day centers offer a multicultural environment, and Philly hospitals dropping race-based algorithms.
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A group of 13 Philadelphia-area health systems will no longer be using race-based algorithms to help make clinical decisions for lung, kidney, and OBGYN care. By @abettel via @axios axios.com/2024/10/23/philade…

Philadelphia hospitals drop race-based algorithms

A group of 13 Philadelphia-area health systems is ending the inclusion of race in screening algorithms that help make decisions for lung, kidney and OB-GYN care.

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