Daily Report Blog

A 4/3/12 Kaiser Health News analysis of new county health rankings ​found distinct regional patterns: excessive drinking rates were highest in the northern states, while rates of teen births, sexually transmitted infections, and children in poverty were highest in the South.

The 4/1/12 Wall Street Journal examined the distribution of the nation’s 49 million uninsured residents across the country, finding distinct state-based patterns: Southern and western states tended to have higher rates of uninsured people, while northeast and New England states tended to have lower rates. 

MedPage Today reported on 4/2/12 that a retrospective analysis in Norway found six to 10 cases of over-diagnosis for every 2,500 women invited to have mammographic screening; in other words, the screening found a large number of cancers that would not have become clinically significant during the woman’s lifetime.​