News 2015
Hundreds With HIV Could Donate Organs to Others With HIV: Study
Emily Blumberg, M.D., Professor, Infectious Diseases Division, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Nearly 400 HIV-positive potential organ donors in the United States could donate organs each year to HIV-positive people waiting for transplants, a new study estimates.
Read more: Hundreds With HIV Could Donate Organs to Others With HIV: Study
Suicide Rate Up Among Young Black Children in U.S.
Suicide
Suicides among black American children have increased in recent years, while fewer white children are killing themselves, a new analysis finds.
The odds of any children in the age group 5 to 11 taking their own life remain small. But young black children are three times as likely to do so as whites, the researchers said.
Read more: Suicide Rate Up Among Young Black Children in U.S.
New ACA Guidance Addresses Preventive Services Coverage Requirements for Transgender Individuals
Guidance for transgender
The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury issued new guidance on May 11th, clarifying consumers' rights to coverage of preventive services under the Affordable Care Act, including the rights of transgender individuals who have historically experienced inequities in access to health care services.
Medicaid Expansion Is Still A Tumultuous Fight In Several States
David H. Koch, executive vice president, and Charles G. Koch, chairman of the board and CEO, Koch Industries.
Five years after the Affordable Care Act passed, its Medicaid expansion provision is still causing huge fights in state legislatures.
Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia said yes to Medicaid expansion when the law went into effect. Since then, just six more have signed on. States that do get billions of additional federal dollars, but many Republican lawmakers are loathe to say yes to the Obama administration.
Read more: Medicaid Expansion Is Still A Tumultuous Fight In Several States
In This Issue
Today is National Hepatitis Testing Day, a day that reminds me that yet another chronic disease disproportionately impacts Black people. It's as good a place as any to begin to look at America's health disparities and figure out strategies to improve the health outcomes of Black Americans.