US men live shorter lives than US women as the gap in life expectancy worsens. The gender gap in 2021 was 5.8 years, the largest since 1996, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine .1
For more than a century, US women have outlived men because of lower cardiovascular and lung cancer deaths because of differences in smoking habits. The life expectancy gap between men and women increased from 4.8 years in 2010 to 5.8 years in 2021.
The gap increased 0.23 years from 2010 to 2019 and 0.70 years from 2019 to 2021. The absolute difference in age adjusted …
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new pilot programme that will expand the early detection system to screen international air travellers for more than 30 respiratory viruses.1
More than a billion people enter US airports every year and are an important population to consider when tracking new and emerging infectious diseases, said the agency.2
The voluntary and anonymous Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) programme has been used to screen international air travellers at seven US airports as an early warning system for new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other pathogens. It began …
Five million more Americans should be screened for lung cancer with low dose computed tomography every year, according to the American Cancer Society.1
Asymptomatic people aged 50 to 80 who formerly smoked or are current smokers with a 20 pack year smoking history should be offered screening, says new guidelines from the society, while screening may also be recommended for those over 80 who are in good health.
Previous guidelines recommended screening people aged 55 to 74 who currently smoked or had quit within the past 15 years and had a 30 pack year history of smoking. They also dropped the previous rule that people …
Infant mortality in the US rose by 3% in 2022, increasing for the first time in 20 years from 5.44 per 1000 live births in 2021 to 5.60, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.1 This is in stark contrast to a decline of 22% in infant mortality between 2002 and 2021.
The increase is part of worsening US health in almost every area when compared with other prosperous industrial nations. US life expectancy fell to 76.4 in 2021, the lowest level since 1996. Maternal …
Abortions increased slightly in the United States in the year after the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and allowed states to make their own rules following the Dobbs versus Jackson decision in June 2022.12 But there was a great variability, with abortions dropping dramatically in some states and increasing greatly in others.3
Ushma Upadhyay, co-chair of #WeCount, a report by the Society of Family Planning, and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said, “A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade, abortion access in the United States plummeted to near zero in some states while increasing to meet …