Drawing on national health data from 150,000 adults, a new study shows how the pandemic disrupted preventive care for people with disabilities — especially those with cognitive and physical impairments. The findings spotlight urgent needs for inclusive healthcare reform.

How much does education actually sharpen the mind? A study published in the Journal of Human Capital(link is external and opens in a new window) may help settle this long-standing debate by comparing adult siblings in Indonesia. Led by Yuan Zhang, assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the research reveals education’s impact on adult cognition—particularly for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

UCLA researchers have developed an AI system that turns fragmented electronic health records (EHR) normally in tables into readable narratives, allowing artificial intelligence to make sense of complex patient histories and use these narratives to perform clinical decision support with high accuracy.

A new study published in JAMA Network Open found that parents/caregivers who received the CTC were less likely to experience anxiety, food insecurity, and unstable housing, as those who were previously behind on rent were more likely to be able to resume payments. Previous studies have demonstrated a connection among the expanded CTC, food security, and housing stability during the COVID-19 pandemic, but this longitudinal study of more than 5,800 parent-child dyads assessed families’ health and economic circumstances over time—before and during the pandemic—focusing on caregivers with very young children. The majority of children of caregivers in the study group were under two years old before the pandemic, and the rest of the children were under four years old, compared to the under-18 age group assessed in similar research. 

In this cohort study of younger acute myocardial infarction survivors with universal health care, living in marginalized neighborhoods was associated with adverse outcomes. The observed differences in health service utilization among marginalized patients warrant further investigation to better understand the underlying structural and systemic factors.