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 E-Mail Philadelphia, Pa. -- More than one out of every 10 seniors (10.5%) enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, also known as a Medicare managed care option, and living in a rural area, switched to traditional Medicare during 2010-2016. The switch was driven primarily due to low satisfaction with care access, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs from researchers at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health. By contrast, only 1.7% of rural traditional Medicare enrollees made the switch to Medicare Advantage during this period. The findings, among the first...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited experiments done with lab dummies. Dr. Fauci has been touting double masking for weeks.

Experts spent months on a fair COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, only to witness ‘a chaotic free-for-all’ Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer © HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Dr. Faith Peterson administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a patient inside the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Feb. 02. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has been vaccinating Philadelphia residents. From last April to December, José Romero met weekly with other vaccine and infectious disease experts to discuss how the nation should dole out early doses of lifesaving COVID...

President Biden’s economic relief package could cut childhood poverty in half — but it’s only temporary Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © MONICA HERNDON/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Shelby Lindsay packs smile fries at Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill earlier this month for families who attend a weekly food distribution to receive seven breakfasts and seven lunches per child. The president's child-poverty initiatives include money for families to cover what would have been free school meals. President Joe Biden has announced a lofty goal in the op...

Jessie Kemmick Pintor, PhD, assistant professors in the Dornsife School of Public Health, and colleagues detail the effects of structural racism on the health of immigrants in the U.S. The authors provide evidence that chronic exposure to racism leads to worsening health over time among immigrants, particularly among those who are Black or Latinx. The authors look at allostatic load – a comprehensive measure of the body’s response to stressors during a lifespan – in both immigrants and non-immigrants across racial/ethnic groups to put a spotlight on health disparities among groups.  Th...