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Cut Video’s 100 Years of Beauty is back, this time with world beauty and fashion icon, Italy. In Italia, it’s been all about the drama since the beginning: intricate up-dos and bold red lips in the 1910’s, and a heavy brow and pout in the ’20s. Even the ’40s, which saw a shift toward clean faces and simple braided hairstyles because of World War II, was effortlessly chic. One of my favorites is hands down the Missoni-inspired deep green eye shadow and orange lip of the ’70s that brought color back to post-war Europe (don’t forget that wildcat hair). The look I want to recreate right now? That ’80s gold glam à la Versace. The looks are classic from there, with the early 2000’s and 2010’s harking back to vintage, whimsical hair of divas from the past like Sophia Loren and Monica Vitti.

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Viruses, Not Bacteria, Reponsible for Many Pneumonia Cases: Study

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Viruses cause more pneumonia-related hospitalizations among American adults than bacteria, although the cause of the lung infection is undetected in most cases, a new federal study says.

The findings show the need for improved diagnostic tests, according to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the study.

“Pneumonia is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among adults in the United States and in 2011 the medical costs exceeded $10 billion,” he said in a CDC news release.

“Most of the time doctors are unable to pinpoint a specific cause of pneumonia. We urgently need more sensitive, rapid tests to identify causes of pneumonia and to promote better treatment,” Frieden said.

CDC researchers looked at more than 2,300 adults, whose median age was 57. All were treated for pneumonia at three hospitals in Chicago and two hospitals in Nashville between January 2010 and June 2012.

Viruses were detected in 27 percent of the patients and bacteria in 14 percent of the patients, the study found. Human rhinovirus (HRV) was the most commonly detected virus. Influenza was the second most common type of virus, the researchers said.

Influenza was the cause of pneumonia in twice as many patients 80 and older than any other type of virus except HRV, the study revealed. This finding highlights the need for increased flu vaccine use and effectiveness in this age group, the researchers said.

Streptococcus pneumoniae was the most common type of bacteria found in patients. It caused five times more pneumonia hospitalizations among adults 65 and older than in younger adults, the researchers noted.

S. pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterobacteriaceae bacteria were common among severely ill patients, and were detected in 16 percent of intensive care unit patients, compared with 6 percent of non-ICU patients, the study found.

Results of the study were published July 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Seema Jain, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC’s Influenza Division, said the study found more viruses in people with pneumonia than expected. Jain said better testing may be one reason why. Vaccines for bacterial causes of pneumonia may be another reason, Jain suggested in the news release.

“However, what’s most remarkable is that despite how hard we looked for pathogens (germs), no discernible pathogen was detected in 62 percent of adults hospitalized with pneumonia in the … study. This illustrates the need for more sensitive diagnostic methods that can both help guide treatment at the individual level as well as inform public health policy for adult pneumonia at a population level,” Jain said.

More information

The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about pneumonia.

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Mental Health Problems in Childhood Linked to Adult Woes

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Poor mental health in childhood may lower the chances of success in adulthood, a new study suggests.

Duke University researchers found that children with mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and/or behavioral problems were six times more likely than those with no psychiatric problems to have difficulties in adulthood.

Those later struggles included addiction, early pregnancy, criminal charges, difficulty getting and keeping jobs, education failures and housing instability, the study authors said.

Even children with mild or passing episodes of psychiatric problems were at increased risk, according to the study in the July 15 issue of the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

While the study found an association between poor mental health in childhood and problems later in life, it did not prove a cause-and-effect link.

The researchers analyzed data from more than 1,400 participants in 11 North Carolina counties who were followed from childhood through adulthood. Most of the study participants are now in their 30s.

During childhood, about 26 percent of the participants met the criteria for depression, anxiety or a behavioral disorder, 31 percent had milder forms below the full threshold of a diagnosis, and nearly 43 percent had no mental health problems.

Among those diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder in childhood, more than 59 percent had a serious challenge in adulthood and about 34 percent had numerous problems. The rates among those with milder forms of mental illness were about 42 percent and 23 percent, respectively.

“When it comes to key psychiatric problems — depression, anxiety, behavior disorders — there are successful interventions and prevention programs,” study author William Copeland, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said in a Duke news release.

“So, we do have the tools to address these, but they aren’t implemented widely. The burden is then later seen in adulthood, when these problems become costly public health and social issues,” he added.

The findings show the need to treat mental health problems early. But, only about 40 percent of children with diagnosed psychiatric disorders receive treatment, and the rate is even lower for those with milder mental health problems, according to Copeland.

“A big problem with mental health in the United States is that most children don’t get treatment and those who do don’t get what we would consider optimal care,” he said. “So the problems go on much longer than they need to and cost much more than they should in both money and damaged lives.”

More information

The American Psychological Association has more on mental health in childhood.

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Daily Smartphone Use Might Offer Clues to Depression

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A new study suggests that how you use your smartphone could shed light on whether you might suffer from depression.

The small study — involving just 20 women and eight men, averaging 29 years of age — looked at data from the people’s phones to track the number of minutes they used their phone, as well as their locations throughout the day.

The researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago tracked two weeks’ of phone use and GPS data from the 28 participants’ smartphones.

The more time a person spent on his or her phone, the more likely they were to be depressed, according to the team led by clinical psychologist David Mohr, who directs the university’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies.

For example, average daily smartphone use by those with depression was 68 minutes, compared with only 17 minutes by those without depression, his team found.

Also, the GPS data showed that people who were depressed tended to spend more time at home, or in fewer locations, compared to people who weren’t depressed. People who had less of a regular day-to-day schedule, or who left home and went to work at different times each day, were also more prone to depression, the researchers contended.

Overall, the smartphone data was 87 percent accurate in spotting people with symptoms of depression, according to the study authors, who published the findings July 15 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Mohr said in a university news release that he believes that simply by looking at phone data, “we can detect if a person has depressive symptoms and the severity of those symptoms without asking them any questions.”

What’s more, “phones can provide data unobtrusively and with no effort on the part of the user,” he said.

Two experts in psychiatric health took a more cautious view, however.

Dr. Aaron Pinkhasov is chair of the department of behavioral health at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y. He agreed that “at least some patterns of data [from smartphones] seem to correlate with possible mood disorders.”

However, Pinkhasov said the study sample was slanted heavily towards older women, who tend to have higher rates of depression. He also believes that physicians and patients should be wary of relying too much “on technology and self-diagnosis” via smartphone.

But another expert said the study is in tune with a trend to track health and health care using new technologies.

“New ‘apps’ will help to identify high-risk patients and offer treatments that can help,” said Dr. Scott Krakower, assistant unit chief of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. “The question will be how to find a balance between finding the right treatment, while respecting privacy at the same time.”

“Of course,” he added, “we should not negate the value of human input — a continued, necessary staple in this computerized world.”

More information

The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about depression.

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Gene Linked to Alzheimer’s May Affect Brain Early

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Neurologists have long known that a variant of a gene called APOEe4 can raise the odds for Alzheimer’s disease in people who carry it.

Now, new research suggests that the gene is already affecting the brain years before the onset of the illness.

Researchers at Indiana University in Indianapolis looked at 600 older adults, including some who said that they had significant memory problems even though they showed normal results on standard thinking and memory tests.

The researchers compared people with the APOEe4 gene variant against those with other, less harmful variants of the APOE gene.

Based on tests, people who carried the APOEe4 variant had higher brain levels of amyloid plaque — those clumps of protein fragments that are commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Their cerebrospinal fluid also had lower levels of a protein “precursor” to the plaques, suggesting that this protein is being diverted to the brain as part of the plaque formation process that’s so strongly tied to Alzheimer’s disease.

The cerebrospinal fluid of the patients with the APOEe4 variant also had higher levels of tau, another protein strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, the findings showed.

One thing the study did not find: People who carried the APOEe4 variant did not show signs of wasting in brain structures, something that occurs with full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.

The study was published July 13 in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia.

The findings show the value of focusing research — and perhaps, someday, treatment — on people at risk of Alzheimer’s long before they are diagnosed with the disease, the researchers said.

“There are many potential interventions, and not only on the pharmaceutical side,” study co-leader Andrew Saykin, director of the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center and Indiana University’s Center for Neuroimaging, said in a university news release.

“There are intensive studies now of exercise, diet modification, cognitive [mental] stimulation, sleep and other lifestyle factors that could lead to an improvement,” he said.

More information

The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about Alzheimer’s disease.

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Hospitalization Rates Jump Near ‘Fracking’ Sites: Study

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — People who live near “fracking” sites may be at increased risk for hospitalization for heart problems, neurological disorders and other conditions, new research suggests.

Hydraulic fracturing — widely referred to as fracking — is a form of oil and gas drilling that has increased dramatically in the United States over the past decade, raising concerns about water and air pollution.

Pennsylvania is a hotspot for fracked wells, the researchers said. In this study, hospitalization rates in three northeastern counties in Pennsylvania were tallied.

Two of the counties — Bradford and Susquehanna — had a significant increase in fracked wells between 2007 and 2011. No fracking was allowed in the third county — Wayne — due to its proximity to the Delaware River watershed.

The researchers looked at the top 25 specific medical categories for more than 198,000 hospitalizations among residents of the three counties between 2007 and 2011. They found that rates of hospitalizations for heart and neurological problems were much higher among people who lived closer to active fracked wells.

Specifically, people living in areas of Bradford and Susquehanna counties with a fracked well density of more than 0.79 wells per square kilometer were 27 percent more likely to be hospitalized for heart problems than people in Wayne County.

Hospitalization rates for cancer, urologic problems and skin conditions were also higher among people who lived closer to active fracked wells.

The study was published online July 15 in the journal PLOS One.

“At this point, we suspect that residents are exposed to many toxicants, noise and social stressors due to hydraulic fracturing near their homes, and this may add to the increased number of hospitalizations,” senior study author Dr. Reynold Panettieri Jr., deputy director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a university news release.

“This study represents one of the most comprehensive to date to link health effects with hydraulic fracturing,” he added.

The findings do not prove that fracking actually causes health problems, but suggests that health care costs need to be factored into estimates of the economic impacts of fracking, the researchers said.

The investigators also said further research is needed to determine how specific pollutants, or combinations of pollutants, associated with fracking may contribute to hospitalization rates.

More information

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has more about fracking.

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Genes May Be Key to a Better HIV Vaccine, Study Says

By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Someone’s genetic makeup may determine whether an HIV vaccine will work, a new study suggests.

Scientists say the finding could help them find a way to immunize people against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. While researchers have reported advances over the years, a working vaccine still seems far off.

Genetics are “almost certainly” relevant to how well vaccines work, but “vaccine designers have so far sought a single vaccine for all, for the most part,” said study co-author Daniel Geraghty, a scientist with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. “That approach isn’t going to work for a lot of vaccines.”

In the new research, scientists analyzed results of a vaccine trial in Thailand that concluded in 2009. Over 42 months, the vaccine protected against HIV infection 31 percent of the time.

The new analysis revealed that the vaccine was effective only in people with a specific gene variant. In others, the vaccine appeared to raise the risk of infection.

To better understand this discrepancy, the researchers zeroed in on 760 study participants. Those with a specific genetic variation were protected 71 percent of the time, they found.

“The gene identified in this study is one of those that has long been known to be directly involved in the immune response to infection,” said Geraghty, president and CEO of Scisco Genetics. It’s essential to a process that helps cells tell the immune system if they’re healthy or infected, he explained.

The genetic variation is common, he added.

Meanwhile, another genetic variation — one the researchers say is more common in the general population than in Thailand — made infection more likely.

The scientists believe the research represents a promising step.

“This should be studied further to try and determine how the vaccine may have worked and how we might be able one day to predict such protection, and design more effective vaccines from the beginning,” said study co-author Rasmi Thomas, a principal investigator with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program.

Dr. Susan Buchbinder, director of the Bridge HIV research unit with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, praised the study. It should generate new theories about how vaccination may affect HIV transmission, she said.

“The results appear to be valid,” said Buchbinder, who was not involved in the study. However, she cautioned that the findings will need to be confirmed in a new study with different participants.

Will people eventually undergo genetic testing to determine which HIV vaccine they should get? There’s disagreement about this point.

Geraghty said genetic testing is inexpensive and could be used to match people to vaccines.

But Buchbinder questioned the idea of developing different vaccines for people with different genetic makeups. Ultimately, she said, the goal is to develop vaccines that work so well that it doesn’t matter if people have different immune responses based on their genes.

This particular study “may help us to understand more fully those immune responses that are helpful or harmful in HIV acquisition, and may guide development of future vaccines,” she said.

Next, Geraghty said, scientists need to learn more about how genetic variations affect vaccine effectiveness. “This essential detail is at the core of the immune response and is a key component of what distinguishes us from one another in our capacity to resist infection,” he said.

The study was published July 15 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

More information

For more about HIV vaccine research, see the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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This No-Gym, HIIT Workout Gets the Job Done in 10 Minutes

Can’t get to the gym? No problem!

There’s a notion out there that you need to belong to a gym in order to maintain a fitness routine, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with leaving your house to get your sweat on, it’s also completely possible to get a great workout in the comfort of your own living room.

This HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workout is the perfect fat-burning addition to any exercise program you’re currently doing. The best part? It will only take you 10 minutes, you can do it in front of the TV, and the only equipment you need is a stopwatch (or the timer on your phone).

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Perform each move below for 20 seconds, trying to get as many reps in as you can, followed by 10 seconds of rest. Do two full sets (meaning 20 seconds of work, 10 seconds of rest, then repeat once) of each exercise before moving on to the next. Let’s HIIT it!

Squat jumps

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Stand tall with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart. Squat down, keeping the weight in your heels, until you have reached the bottom of a squat. From here, jump straight up into the air as high as you can. Land softly on your toes and repeat.

Push-ups

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Get into a standard plank position, with your arms slightly wider than your shoulders and your feet just a few inches apart. Slowly lower yourself down, getting as close to the ground as possible. From here, push back up through your chest and arms to starting position. Keep your core tight throughout the entire movement and fight the urge to allow your mid-section to either arch up or sag.

Jumping lunges

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Start in a lunge position with your right foot in front and left foot behind you with your left knee about an inch from the floor. From here, explode straight up out of the lunge, switching your legs mid-air and landing softly on your toes. You will now have your left leg in front and right leg behind you. Remember to keep your front knee at a 90 degree angle and try not to let it go past your toes.

Sit-ups

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Lie on your back with your knees bent and hands behind your head. While keeping your chin angled towards the sky, use your core to sit up until your elbows touch your knees. Lower back down to the ground and repeat.

Burpees

Photo: Jennifer Cohen

Stand with your legs slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Squat down to the floor and place your hands on the ground in front of you. From here, jump back into a pushup position. Jump your feet forward until you are at the bottom of a squat again, then jump straight into the air.

Want more moves like this? Check out 6 Moves That Burn More Fat in Less Time

Jennifer Cohen is a leading fitness authority, TV personality, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of the new book, Strong is the New Skinny. With her signature, straight-talking approach to wellness, Jennifer was the featured trainer on The CW’s Shedding for the Wedding, mentoring the contestants to lose hundreds of pounds before their big day, and she appears regularly on NBC’s Today Show, Extra, The Doctors, and Good Morning America. Connect with Jennifer on Facebook, Twitter, G+ and on Pinterest.

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Another Reason Why Women Should Avoid Douching

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New research adds yet another reason to the list of why women should reconsider douching.

Douching—defined as the washing of the vagina with water or a fluid mixture—is widely discouraged by medical groups, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Medical experts say douching can lead to problems that range from infections to having trouble getting pregnant later on. Still, estimates show that about one in four women between ages 15 and 44 still do it.

Now, a new study published in the journal Environmental Health adds more evidence to the cautionary stance, showing that women who use douches can put themselves at a greater risk for exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates, which are said to interfere with the body’s hormones.

Washing the vagina in the shower is not the same as douching. Often women use prepackaged mixes that are sold in stores containing water mixed with ingredients like vinegar, baking soda or iodine. Women then squirt the douche through a tube into the vagina. Doing so disrupts the healthy bacteria in the vagina as well as its natural acidity, HHS reports. If women already have an infection or sexually transmitted disease, douching could push that bacteria into the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes, where it can cause serious health issues.

The study authors report that phthalates can be found in a variety of personal care products, but that a particular kind called diethyl phthalate (DEP) can be found in items like douches or tampons. By assessing douching use and urine samples, the researchers found that compared to women who didn’t use douches, women who reported douching in the last month had 52% higher levels of urinary concentrations of a metabolite of DEP. Women who used douches two more more times in a month had 152% higher levels of the DEP metabolite in their urine.

The findings come from the researchers’ assessment of data from 739 women between the ages of 20 and 29 who were part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2001–2004. The women reported their use of feminine hygiene products like tampons, pads, vaginal douches, feminine spray, feminine powder and feminine wipes and had provided urine samples that were measured for metabolites of phthalates. Douches were the only product where researchers saw a significant link to higher levels of phthalates.

Study author Ami Zota, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at Milken Institute School of Public Health, says that since douches are used internally, they may introduce more opportunities for absorption. “There is already reason to be concerned about this practice,” she says. “Now we are saying there may be even more reason to be concerned because these chemicals are entering women’s bodies.”

Zota says data has linked phthalate chemicals to a wide range of health outcomes. “This includes reproductive problems for men and women as well as behavioral and developmental problems in babies due to exposure in the womb,” she says. The National Institutes of Health says that while the human health effects of phthalates aren’t yet fully known, they’re actively being studied by several government groups.
Notably, the researchers also showed that black women were likely at a greater risk, since their use of douches was much higher than other groups. The data shows that close to 40% of black women in the study said they used douches in the last month, compared to 14% of white women and 10% of Mexican American women. Zota says the reasons why women still use douches, despite widespread warnings against their use, are complex. “The literature suggests it involves a preference to feel fresh and clean and to remove menstrual blood and odors,” says Zota. “However social scientists as well as social justice advocates argue that societal forces may also be involved in why African American women in particular use vaginal douches, including pressures to conform to societal beauty norms and targeted advertising to the African American community.”

The researchers say this is one of the first studies to look at the link between feminine care products and chemical exposures in the human body, and that they hope it will become a larger area of research. “There is some research to suggest that these chemicals may be even more readily absorbed in the vagina than through our mouth,” says Zota. “It’s a really important issue, particularly for women’s health.”
This article originally appeared on Time.com.

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Health Care Access Improves With Expansion of ‘Obamacare': CDC

By Karen Pallarito
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — While more Americans have health insurance following the expansion of the Affordable Care Act, Hispanic adults have realized some of the biggest gains in access to medical care, a new government report shows.

Approximately 34 percent of Hispanic adults were uninsured in 2014, compared with 41 percent in 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, which was released Wednesday.

In 2014, Hispanic adults were also more likely to have seen or talked to a health care professional in the past 12 months, and they were less likely to have skipped needed medical care due to cost, according to the report in the NCHS Data Brief.

Despite these gains, Hispanic adults are still more likely than non-Hispanics to have difficulty accessing and using care, the report found.

“The Affordable Care Act has definitely made an impact and the numbers show it,” said Maria Gomez, president and CEO of Mary’s Center, a federally qualified health center in Washington, D.C., that serves individuals and families, regardless of their ability to pay.

However, Gomez cited a litany of continuing barriers to care, including a shortage of bilingual and culturally competent providers of care and a dearth of patient education to assure that people take medicines as prescribed.

Another expert agreed that increased access to health insurance alone isn’t enough.

“Expanding insurance is a positive move, but that alone is not going to make the major difference that we are all looking for,” said Dr. Luis Marcos, CEO of the Physician Affiliate Group of New York, the largest multicultural and multilingual physician practice in New York State.

The CDC report was based on final data from the 2013 and 2014 National Health Interview Survey, a survey of U.S. adults aged 18 to 64.

Uninsured rates for all Americans — black, white, Asian and Hispanic — fell in 2014, the report found.

“The drop that we see between 2013 and 2014 is the largest drop we’ve seen in a while for uninsured for these populations,” said report author Michael Martinez, a statistician with the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

White and Asian adults showed gains in coverage, but they were also the least likely to be uninsured. Just 11.5 percent and 12 percent, respectively, lacked coverage in 2014.

Martinez said expanded access to health insurance through the federal and state marketplaces and some states’ expansion of Medicaid — key features of the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare — “are probably contributing” to the decline in the ranks of the uninsured.

Coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act took full effect in 2014, although some states began expanding Medicaid much earlier.

Overall, slightly more than 16 percent of Americans aged 18 to 64 were uninsured in 2014, down from just over 20 percent in 2013, according to a CDC report released last month.

In addition to gains in insurance coverage, the new CDC report tracked changes in three other measures of health access.

For example, adults were asked whether they have a usual place to go for medical care. On that measure, Hispanics and whites realized significant year-over-year improvements.

“We could confidently say that that was an increase” not due to chance, said Brian Ward, report co-author and a statistician at the NCHS.

By contrast, there was no significant change in blacks’ and Asians’ access to a usual place to receive medical care, the study authors found.

Cost of care also remained a barrier for many minority groups. The survey found no significant improvements in the percentages of blacks and Asians skipping needed care due to cost. Blacks were most likely not to get needed care, according to the 2014 data.

“Health care cost is really the major variable in understanding access to care in this country,” Marcos said. Removing cost as a barrier to seeking care “will be the final and most difficult goal to achieve.”

More information

HealthCare.gov can tell you where to get low-cost care in your community.

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