Public Health Roundup: Growing Number Of Young Stroke Victims; Roadblocks In Mental Health Care
News outlets also report on parents' attitude toward the HPV vaccine, how job satisfaction impacts health later in life, the connection between online devices and sleep quality as well as the latest on two transplant procedures.
Kaiser Health News:
Hidden Stroke Victims: The Young
[Jamie] Hancock is among a growing number of younger adults who’ve had strokes, which occur when blood flow to the brain is blocked or a vessel in the brain bursts. Because strokes are most often associated with old age, symptoms in younger adults may be overlooked, according to patients, advocates and physicians. And their need for rehabilitation — to return to active lives as parents and employees, for instance — can be underestimated. (8/24)
KQED:
Sorry, The Therapist Can't See You — Not Now, Not Anytime Soon
More than 43 million Americans have depression, anxiety, or another mental health condition. But more than half never get help. Recent laws were supposed to make it easier for Californians to access treatment, but many still face roadblocks, even with insurance. In this special series by KQED's The California Report and State of Health we travel across the state to find out why it’s so difficult to get mental health care. (Dembosky, 8/23)
Stat:
Parents Remain Leery Of Schools That Require HPV Vaccination
A decade after first becoming available, the HPV vaccine is still a hard sell. A new study finds that only 21 percent of parents believe that a law requiring vaccination for attending school is a good idea, and 54 percent disagreed with the notion of such a requirement for school entry altogether. What might make them change their minds? Well, 57 percent reported that they could live with the requirement, but only if there is an opt-out provision. (Silverman, 8/23)
The Washington Post:
Loathe Your Job In Your 20s Or 30s? That May Hurt Your Health By Your 40s.
Actually, it looks like the consequences of your unhappiness with your work may affect your physical and mental well-being — and perhaps sooner than you might think. An analysis by Ohio State University’s Jonathan Dirlam and Hui Zheng, presented this week at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, shows that job satisfaction in your late 20s and 30s appears to be linked to your health in your 40s. (Cha, 8/23)
KQED:
The Online Life, As Both Liberation And Imprisonment
A study has recently suggested that our sleep hormones are being blanched from the light of our various nighttime screens. As a result we may sleep less well, and wake up more tired. Our phones are black on the bedside table, sleeping the sleep of the just, but their light swirls on behind our closed eyes, so the survey says. ... Fearing the toxicity of our gadgets is not a new pastime. (Scott, 8/23)
CBS News:
Face Transplant Recipient Patrick Hardison, One Year Later
For 14 years, Hardison battled pain, stares from strangers and a loss of hope, all from his disfigured appearance.But in August of 2015, doctors at New York University’s Langone Medical Center transplanted another face onto Hardison’s head. The donor, 26-year-old David Rodebaugh, died in a cycling accident.The surgery lasted 26 hours, and Hardison was only given a 50 percent chance of surviving. (Lapook, 8/23)
CBS News:
Zion Harvey, First Child With Double Hand Transplant, Shows Amazing Progress One Year After Surgery
One year after receiving a double hand transplant, 9-year-old Zion Harvey is -- to steal an old baseball metaphor -- batting a thousand. Last summer, doctors at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia transplanted donor hands and forearms onto Harvey in the first operation of its kind ever performed on a child. Harvey had lost his hands and feet at the age of 2 due to a serious infection that also led to organ failure and a kidney transplant. (Marcus, 8/23)
