Study: Medicaid expansion meant better health for the most vulnerable low-income adults

The most vulnerable residents of the nation’s 10th most populous state say their health improved significantly after they enrolled in Michigan’s expanded Medicaid program, a new study finds. Michiganders with extremely low incomes, those who live with multiple chronic health problems, and those who are Black, got the biggest health boosts year over year among…

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Global COVID-19 registry finds strokes associated with COVID-19 are more severe, have worse outcomes and higher mortality

DALLAS, July 10, 2020 — Acute ischemic strokes (AIS) associated with COVID-19 are more severe, lead to worse functional outcomes and are associated with higher mortality , according to new research published yesterday in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. In “Characteristics and Outcomes in Patients…

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