Year of News:

1. Health care for formerly incarcerated people, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Mar 17, 2023

   This week’s Health News Roundup features stories about health care for formerly incarcerated people, how a local CHW helps with diabetes management, and findings from local research about racial and economic disparities.

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2. 1M+ Americans ration insulin, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Nov 11, 2022

   This week’s Health News Roundup features stories about more than 1 million Americans rationing insulin, and more.

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3. Diabetes diagnoses doubled for Black youth during the pandemic, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Sep 23, 2022

   This week’s Health News Roundup features stories about a new study that shows diabetes diagnoses doubled for Black youth during the pandemic, new survey data about food insecurity in Connecticut, and more.

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4. Food insecurity and COVID-19, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Oct 02, 2020

   Food insecurity in the U.S. by the numbers
   Christianna Silva, NPR, September 27
   With COVID-19 continuing to spread, and millions of Americans still…

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5. Black babies are more likely to survive during childbirth when cared for by Black doctors, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Aug 28, 2020

   Black babies are more likely to survive when cared for by Black doctors, study finds
   N’dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, August 19
   Black newborns are…

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6. Why our nation’s outbreak preparedness is a health equity issue, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Mar 06, 2020

   HEALTH EQUITY

   Avoiding coronavirus may be a luxury some workers can’t afford
   Claire Cain Miller,…

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7. The lifelong consequences of growing up homeless in Connecticut, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Jan 31, 2020

   HEALTH DISPARITIES

   Access to care may explain disparities in prostate cancer outcomes

   Nicholas…

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8. How black pharmacists are closing the cultural gap in health care, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, Jun 28, 2019

   HEALTH CARE COSTS
   Colorado’s ski towns could fix the high cost of American health care
   John Tozzi and Hannah Recht, Bloomberg, June 21
   The U.S.…

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9. The “mega-disparity” people ignore, health care costs eating into workers’ budgets, and more in this week’s roundup

   Friday, May 03, 2019

   HEALTH DISPARITIES
   Diabetic amputations a ‘shameful metric’ of inadequate care
   Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News, April 26
   Blacks and Latinos…

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10. What a Rwandan medical school can teach the U.S., a new community health worker program in Meriden, and more

    Friday, Feb 01, 2019

    Health Equity

    What a medical school on a Rwandan hilltop can teach the United States
    Sarah Karlin-Smith, Politico, January 27
    Three hours along…

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