Roni Rabin

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

Researchers looked at firearm fatalities in the 13 years immediately after the Supreme Court limited local governments' ability to restrict gun ownership. Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments' ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found.

3 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Roni Rabin

Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They’re at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts — and insurers often resist paying for additional scans that may help find the masses. Now a large study comparing various types of scans has found that mammography enhanced with iodine-based dye can detect three times as many invasive cancers in dense breast tissue as ultrasound.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Roni Rabin

Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They’re at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts — and insurers often resist paying for additional scans that may help find the masses. Now a large study comparing various types of scans has found that mammography enhanced with iodine-based dye can detect three times as many invasive cancers in dense breast tissue as ultrasound.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

Contrast-enhanced mammography identified tumors as accurately as more expensive scans. But it is not widely used for screening in the United States. Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They're at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts - and insurers often resist paying for additional scans that may help find the masses.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Roni Rabin |Alice Callahan |Apoorva Mandavilli |Dani Blum

In a sweeping new report, the White House outlined what it sees as the drivers of disease in American children. “To turn the tide and better protect our children, the United States must act decisively,” reads the report, which was produced by a presidential commission tasked with combating childhood disease.