Public Health in the News (1/14/18 – 1/20/18)

By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor

Global

• Study finds that women using oral contraceptives had lower risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, and that the risks were lower the longer they were on the pill.

National

• The CDC reported that the percentage of young women taking A.D.H.D. drugs increased more than fivefold from 2003 to 2015.
• New analysis of census data finds that despite low U.S. fertility rates, 86% of women near the end of their child-bearing years are mothers, a recent increase after decades of declines.
• New study suggests that repeated head injuries, even without concussion, cause the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Northwestern

• Northwestern Medicine emergency department program focused on geriatric transitional care was found to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations of older patients by 33 percent.
• Study by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine finds that bariatric surgery prolongs lifespan in obese, middle-age men and women.