Palliative care can be a godsend in the final days of one's life, but new research shows that Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are far less likely to receive it than their white peers are.
Overall, nursing homes in the Northeast provided the most palliative care, while those in the South provided the least amount of this type of care.
A full two years into the coronavirus pandemic, long-haul COVID patients remain sick and in desperate search of answers. They've lost jobs. They've lost their sense of self. Many say they have lost faith in the medical community.
Despite multiple studies, the launch of dozens of specialized long COVID clinics and $1.15 billion in federal funding for the National Institutes of Health to study the condition, there remains a dearth of proven treatments for people who are suffering from lingering illness after their infection.
Last week President Biden signed a new government spending bill into law. The roughly $22.5 billion for emergency funding for COVID-19 response efforts that the White House had requested was not included in the bill.
Dr. Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, a physician earning his doctorate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has received the Society of General Internal Medicine’s “Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award” for 2022 for his work on Medicare costs.
It can be hard to look away from your phone and live your life while terrible events are unfolding.
War is 24/7. There’s an unrelenting flow of images, videos and graphic updates out of Ukraine, filling social media, messaging apps and news sites. Then there’s covid, climate change, natural disasters and every new or ongoing humanitarian crisis that feels impossible to look away from.
As COVID-19 swept across the United States, it became clear that the virus disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic groups.
But the outsized impact of the pandemic on one community, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders has been largely hidden because of inconsistent data collection and reporting.
Stephanie Sy has the story. It's part of our series Race Matters.
It’s a ‘human-rights’ crisis, said Dr. Ninez Ponce, professor of health policy and management and director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, who is studying gun violence.
A government study of 450 people says that "mixing vaccines may enhance the immune response" to the COVID-19 virus.
In light of that research by the National Institutes of Health, some public health experts tell the I-Team people might want to switch vaccines when getting booster shots.
As an AmeriCorps member, Dr. Carlos Irwin A. Oronce saw firsthand how patients struggle to access health care.
Dr. Xi Zhu, an expert in organizational behavior and theory dedicated to identifying strategies for improving the performance of healthcare organizations and preparing healthcare management professionals to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape, has been appointed the Paul Torrens Chair in Healthcare Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.