Roni Rabin

New York

Health Writer at The New York Times

New York Times health writer.

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Articles

1 type of mammogram proves better for women with dense breasts

4 days 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.
One type of mammogram proves better for women with dense breasts

2 weeks 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.
One Type of Mammogram Proves Better for Women With Dense Breasts

2 weeks 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.
4 key takeaways from a new White House report on children’s health

2 weeks 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.
4 key takeaways from a new White House report on children’s health - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dani Blum |Apoorva Mandavilli |Roni Rabin |Alice Callahan

The report provides little in the way of specific solutions to address these issues, though the commission is also expected to release recommendations later this year. What the document does offer is the clearest articulation yet of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement and what the broad coalition hopes to accomplish in the coming months and years. Here’s what the new report tells us. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
Is There Really a Chronic Disease Epidemic? It's Complicated.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans were much healthier than they are now. People were thinner and had lower rates of chronic disease, he recalls. Fewer children had autism, allergies or autoimmune diseases.
New N.I.H. Policy Threatens Global Science Collaborations

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

Restrictions on payments to foreign partners may jeopardize studies of cancer and other conditions that would benefit Americans. One of the studies threatened by a new administration policy regarding international research is focused on prolonging the lives of women with the most common kind of breast cancer. Up to one in five women with estrogen-fueled breast cancer experiences a life-threatening recurrence after being in remission for 10 years or even longer.
N.I.H. Bars New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

Generally, researchers will no longer be allowed to direct federal funds to international collaborators. The National Institutes of Health will no longer allow American scientists to direct its funding to research partners overseas, casting doubt on the future of studies on subjects including malaria and childhood cancer. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the N.I.H., announced the policy on Thursday, the same day Dr. Matthew J.
Trump budget cuts funding for chronic disease prevention

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Apoorva Mandavilli |Roni Rabin

Of the proposed cuts, she said, “How do you reconcile that with trying to make America healthy again?”The federal health department last month cut 2,400 jobs from the CDC, whose National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion runs on the largest budget within the agency. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Programs on lead poisoning, smoking cessation and reproductive health were jettisoned in a reorganization last month.
U.S. Officials to Cut Funding for Landmark Study of Women's Health

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Roni Rabin

The Women's Health Initiative has produced thousands of research papers, altering medical care for patients around the world. Federal health officials plan to cut funding to the Women's Health Initiative, effectively shuttering one of the largest and longest studies of women's health ever carried out. Its findings changed medical practice and helped shape clinical guidelines, preventing tens of thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.