Notices by STAT (stat@newsie.social)

Every year, hundreds of studies use an outdated, inhumane test on mice to try to find new antidepressants. Why is it still allowed?

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/16/forced-swim-test-tail-suspension-test-antidepressant-research-nih/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

The Biden administration announced it would finalize a highly anticipated proposal meant to force health insurers to cover mental health care on the same basis as physical health conditions.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/insurance-mental-health-parity-addiction-treatment/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Health Care's Colossus: The human cost of a corporate strategy that leverages physicians to maximize profits

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/28/unitedhealth-optum-prohealth-physicians-care-squeezed-for-profit-doctors-say/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Public health experts who’ve been following the surprising spillover of H5N1 bird flu into America’s dairy cattle herds now have all eyes on Colorado, waiting to see if a cluster of human cases there might balloon into something bigger.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/22/bird-flu-infects-colorado-poultry-workers-related-to-h5n1-in-cows/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

In the last four years, Congress has allotted billions in funding toward mental health resources for Americans. Elmo and his friends on Sesame Street are also trying to help.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/11/sesame-street-elmo-kids-mental-health/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

“The fact that you can go into a supermarket and 30% to 40% of those samples test positive, that suggests there’s more of the virus around than is currently being recognized."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

How UnitedHealth’s acquisition of a popular Medicare Advantage algorithm sparked internal dissent over denied care https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/11/medicare-advantage-algorithm-navihealth-unitedhealth-insurance-coverage/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Opinion: Current heat warning systems are woefully inadequate in an age of climate change

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/11/heat-warning-systems-health-risks-climate-change/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic