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More skin cancers are diagnosed than all other cancers combined and one in five Americans will have some type of skin cancer by age 70. Nebraska is among the states with the second-highest melanoma diagnoses per 100,000 residents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. .
North Carolina s maternal death rate is higher than the national average and cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among new moms in the U.S. One North Carolina woman is determined to shed light on the signs and symptoms through her own experience. TaShenma Mack, a patient advocate, is well aware of the increased risk of heart disease during pregnancy but was taken by surprise when it affected her. .
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF Health News.Broadcast version by Alex Gonzalez for Arizona News Connection reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health experts worried. As Roach tracked the health of Arizona residents, the gap between mortality rates of people living in rural areas and those of their urban peers was widening. The health disparities between rural and urban Americans have long been documented, but a recent report from the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service found the chasm has grown in recent decades. .
Meanwhile, Houston is being swarmed by mosquitoes after recent bad storms there. And the loss of a key Medicaid contract could upend children's and some adults' health in Texas, with about 450,000 people potentially affected.