Teens and young adults with cancer talk about their experiences with the disease – from treatments and hair loss, to dealing with school, friends and family.
As obesity among young people continues to rise, a growing number of clinicians say that weight-loss surgery may be their best chance to take off significant weight. But although health plans frequently cover bariatric surgery in adults, coverage for patients under age 18 is spotty.
Group-based prevention strategies may offer a means of reaching more individuals than most treatment approaches.
Matthew Zachary, a brain cancer survivor, founded the I’m Too Young For This Foundation to help young adults with cancer and survivors of childhood cancers.
How do young people with cancer cope with the stress and loneliness that can come with an illness that most of us think of as as a disease of the elderly?
Many young cancer survivors are unaware of their risk for chronic complications due to their treatment; the same is true of many of the doctors they see after leaving the care of cancer specialists.
Survival of children with cancer has climbed dramatically, but progress in treating adolescents and young adults has stagnated. Why? One reason: too few enroll in clinical trials.
LocalHealthGuide is on vacation, so this week the we’re will be running an excellent series of articles on cancer in young adolescents and young adults, or “AYAs”, written by the staff of the NCI Cancer Bulletin. The articles cover a range of topics from the social and psychological challenges these young people face to the latest research.
The weights of young people in the U.S. remained fairly steady over the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s — but then they began to put on pounds.
You might be surprised to know that children as young as 2-years-old can have migraines. Up to 5 percent of elementary school kids suffer migraines, and up to 20 percent of adolescents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps achieve better blood-sugar levels than do adolescents who use other methods, according to a new study. Those using insulin pumps also required fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, the study found. But even with the pump many children and teens still fail to achieve good blood-sugar [...]
Health services for adolescents are often highly fragmented, poorly coordinated, and ill-suited for the needs of many young people, according to a new report. Adolescents who are poor, recent immigrants to the U.S., from racial or ethnic minorities, or who are gay, bisexual or transgender are particularly at risk, the report says. The report, “Adolescent [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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