A new Michigan Medicine study shows that middle-aged people living in the U.S. today have worse health than their English counterparts, and the difference in health between rich and poor is much larger in the U.S. Even the top income earners in their late 50s and early 60s in the U.S. have higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, and mental health conditions than their English peers, despite earning nearly twice as much in after-tax income.
Read the full article on the U-M Health Lab Blog.
Minding Memory
In this episode, Donovan & Matt talk with health services researcher Betsy White from Brown University about a unique new resource for researchers called the Long-Term Data Cooperative, a provider-led data sharing collaboratory that puts together nursing home EHR data from EHR vendors that can be linked to Medicare claims. This powerful tool is made available to researchers through an online application process.
Health Lab
As researchers explored potential reasons behind racial disparities in treatment outcomes for children with severe sleep apnea, they were expecting to find the answer in socioeconomic factors. But they were surprised to learn that when one risk factor – obesity – was taken out of the equation, race was no longer associated with worse post-surgery outcomes for obstructive sleep apnea.
Health Lab Podcast
A study seeks to determine post surgery outcomes from patients.
Medicine at Michigan
While shamanic trances and psychedelic states share similar subjective qualities, the way they manifest in the brain is different.
Health Lab Podcast
Rapid state law changes mean 1 in 4 youth now live more than 4 hours from the closest clinic that could provide medications and hormones, and 1 in 4 clinics must stop offering this service.
Health Lab Podcast
As evidence of a link grows, people with depression, anxiety and more may want to get tested and eat iron-rich foods or take supplements.
