Childhood Poverty Can Affect Cognitive Skills in Old Age
Adverse childhood socioeconomic position linked to lower level of cognitive performance in older age
Physician-Group ACOs Generate Medicare Savings
Savings grow with longer participation and are significantly higher than hospital-integrated ACOs
In 2016, Proportion of Uninsured Americans Down to 10 Percent
Larger reductions in uninsured rate in Medicaid expansion states, from 15.3 to 7.6 percent
High-Risk Anticholinergics Prescribed to 6 Percent of Elderly
Correlates of receiving prescription include female sex, specific physician specialty, geographic region
Facebook Program Doesn’t Up Smoking Abstinence at One Year
But, intervention engaged young adults, increased abstinence at end of three-month treatment
Education Can Up Emotional Intelligence in Residents
Increase in total EI median scores, stress management composite score after intervention
Prenatal, Postnatal Homelessness Tied to Poor Health in Children
Those who were homeless prenatally and postnatally at highest risk for hospitalizations
Mortality for Unintentional Drug Poisonings Up Since 1979
Trajectory of overall mortality rate smooth; no exponential trajectories in rates for individual drugs
Gender Nonconformity Linked to Students’ Mental Distress
For male students, gender nonconformity strongly associated with substance use
Prevalence of Alzheimer’s, Related Dementia Set to Double
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias burden is expected to increase to 3.3 percent in 2060
