Long COVID in Adults: United States, 2022
This report uses data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey to describe the percentage of adults who ever had or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) by sociodemographic and geographic characteristics. Long COVID was defined as self-reporting the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who reported either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756137 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Anjel Vahratian Cria G Perrine Jeanne Bertolli Source Type: research
Long COVID in Children: United States, 2022
This report describes the percentage of children ages 0-17 years who ever had Long COVID or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) based on parent-reported data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Long COVID was defined as the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who received either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756128 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Anjel Vahratian Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Jin-Mann S Lin Sharon Saydah Source Type: research
Sickening: who is protecting pharma consumers?
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):327-343. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0018.ABSTRACTIn 2022, John Abramson published Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It. The book illustrates how large pharmaceutical companies have become misinformation machines that have corrupted peer-reviewed journals, systematic review authors, and guideline committees. Industry influence includes selective reporting of clinical trial results and selection of control groups likely to enhance benefits and disguise side effects. Other documented forms of influence include clear conflicts of interest for members of guideline...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robert M Kaplan Source Type: research
The Demise of the AMA's Mission to Improve Public Health
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):312-326. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0017.ABSTRACTMuch has been written about the deplorable state of American health care, but rarely with the wealth of historical and political information packed into Peter Swenson's Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine (2021). In this meticulously researched and comprehensive study of the role of organized medicine, particularly the American Medical Association (AMA) and affiliated state and county medical societies, Swenson provides detailed insight into the AMA's political evolution from a force advocating progressive reforms ...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: John Abramson Source Type: research
Long COVID in Children: United States, 2022
This report describes the percentage of children ages 0-17 years who ever had Long COVID or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) based on parent-reported data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Long COVID was defined as the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who received either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756128 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Anjel Vahratian Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Jin-Mann S Lin Sharon Saydah Source Type: research
Long COVID in Adults: United States, 2022
This report uses data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey to describe the percentage of adults who ever had or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) by sociodemographic and geographic characteristics. Long COVID was defined as self-reporting the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who reported either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756137 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Anjel Vahratian Cria G Perrine Jeanne Bertolli Source Type: research
Sickening: who is protecting pharma consumers?
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):327-343. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0018.ABSTRACTIn 2022, John Abramson published Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It. The book illustrates how large pharmaceutical companies have become misinformation machines that have corrupted peer-reviewed journals, systematic review authors, and guideline committees. Industry influence includes selective reporting of clinical trial results and selection of control groups likely to enhance benefits and disguise side effects. Other documented forms of influence include clear conflicts of interest for members of guideline...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robert M Kaplan Source Type: research
The Demise of the AMA's Mission to Improve Public Health
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):312-326. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0017.ABSTRACTMuch has been written about the deplorable state of American health care, but rarely with the wealth of historical and political information packed into Peter Swenson's Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine (2021). In this meticulously researched and comprehensive study of the role of organized medicine, particularly the American Medical Association (AMA) and affiliated state and county medical societies, Swenson provides detailed insight into the AMA's political evolution from a force advocating progressive reforms ...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: John Abramson Source Type: research
Long COVID in Children: United States, 2022
This report describes the percentage of children ages 0-17 years who ever had Long COVID or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) based on parent-reported data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Long COVID was defined as the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who received either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756128 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Anjel Vahratian Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Jin-Mann S Lin Sharon Saydah Source Type: research
Long COVID in Adults: United States, 2022
This report uses data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey to describe the percentage of adults who ever had or had Long COVID at the time of interview (currently have Long COVID) by sociodemographic and geographic characteristics. Long COVID was defined as self-reporting the presence of symptoms for at least 3 months after having COVID-19 among those who reported either a positive test or a doctor's diagnosis of COVID-19.PMID:37756137 (Source: NCHS data brief)
Source: NCHS data brief - September 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo Anjel Vahratian Cria G Perrine Jeanne Bertolli Source Type: research
The Demise of the AMA's Mission to Improve Public Health
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):312-326. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0017.ABSTRACTMuch has been written about the deplorable state of American health care, but rarely with the wealth of historical and political information packed into Peter Swenson's Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine (2021). In this meticulously researched and comprehensive study of the role of organized medicine, particularly the American Medical Association (AMA) and affiliated state and county medical societies, Swenson provides detailed insight into the AMA's political evolution from a force advocating progressive reforms ...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: John Abramson Source Type: research
Sickening: who is protecting pharma consumers?
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(2):327-343. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0018.ABSTRACTIn 2022, John Abramson published Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It. The book illustrates how large pharmaceutical companies have become misinformation machines that have corrupted peer-reviewed journals, systematic review authors, and guideline committees. Industry influence includes selective reporting of clinical trial results and selection of control groups likely to enhance benefits and disguise side effects. Other documented forms of influence include clear conflicts of interest for members of guideline...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robert M Kaplan Source Type: research
Health literacy on quality of life for children with cancer: modules on pediatric palliative care
CONCLUSIONS: Educational materials and anticipatory guidance of PC were considered to be a priority for parents and other caregivers of children with cancer throughout Latin America. The materials developed through this project have been widely utilized and are available through the PAHO website and the Together by St. Jude™ online resource.PMID:37750058 | PMC:PMC10516324 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2023.134 (Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health)
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - September 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ximena Garc ía-Quintero Daniel Bastardo Blanco Liliana V ásquez Soad Fuentes-Alab í Sara Benites-Majano Mauricio Maza Cecilia Ugaz Roxana Morales Justin N Baker Michael J McNeil Source Type: research
Advances in the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer: implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report describes the status of childhood cancer control initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Progress between 2017 and 2023 is measured using the outcome indicators from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) childhood cancer logic model aligned with the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC). This report also describes the advances, barriers, and facilitators for the implementation of the GICC at the Regional level. Methods used in this report encompassed a comprehensive approach, incorporating a literature review, interviews, surveys, and a Delphi study develope...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - September 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Liliana V ásquez Soad Fuentes-Alab í Patricia Loggetto Sara Benitez-Majano Monika L Metzger Marta Jarquin-Pardo Naomi Echeandia-Abud Sumit Gupta Avram Denburg Paola Friedrich Roberta Ortiz Catherine Lam Silvana Luciani Andre Ilbawi Carlos Rodr íguez-Ga Source Type: research
Regional collaboration for the development of national childhood cancer plans in Latin America and the Caribbean
This article aims to describe the activities conducted by the National Childhood Cancer Plan Working Group to support the development of national childhood cancer plans in Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 2019-2022, and to present the stage of plan development. The Working Group activities were supported by the Pan American Health Organization and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which is the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer. Year after year, the workshops and activities developed with the Working Group mobilized key stakeholders: pediatric oncologists, representa...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - September 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Patr ícia Loggetto Marta Jarquin-Pardo Soad Fuentes-Alabi Liliana Vasquez Sara Benitez Majano Alejandra Gonzalez Ruiz Mauricio Maza Monika L Metzger Paola Friedrich Silvana Luciani Catherine G Lam Source Type: research
