Medicaid, America's most prominent health insurance program, is a boon for pregnant women, as well as women who are trying to conceive a child. It covers a plethora of reproductive healthcare services, including family planning and pregnancy-related care (prenatal services, childbirth, and postpartum services and care) without cost-sharing. Medicaid law strictly prohibits the states from charging co-payments, deductibles, or other such service charges.
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Rick Lange: Mask-wearing and COVID transmission in the United States.
Elizabeth: What can we do to help those people who continue to smoke?
Rick: And should you discontinue certain hypertensive medicines if you have COVID infection?
Elizabeth: That s what we re talking about this week on TT HealthWatch, your weekly look at the medical headlines from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical journalist.
Rick: And I m Rick Lange, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I m also the dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.
Now that she’s 7, Olivia Edwards gets her blood pressure checked without a whimper.
“She didn’t like it when she was little, but she’s fine now,” said her mother, Sara Edwards of Lake Wales, while Olivia finished her checkup at Kinder Clinic in Winter Haven, part of Nemours Children’s Primary Care.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be screened for high blood pressure, from age 3 on, during their annual well child visits.
Although consistently elevated blood pressure or hypertension is rare in children Olivia’s age, it can occur. If it does, it’s often linked to obesity, but could signal undetected kidney disease, congenital heart disease or other problems.
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