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TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will yet again consider whether or not to scrap the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has been the law of the land for a decade.The case comes before the court Tuesday, on the heels of the Presidential election. At issue is the Congress' 2017 repeal of the "individual mandate," which had imposed a tax penalty on many Americans who did not purchase some form of health insurance.The argument now before the court -- and supported by the Trump administration -- suggests the repeal should render the entire law unconstitutional.No one knows what the court will do. It could accept the repeal argument, or it could adopt a "severability" approach and allow the ACA to stand despite any elimination of the mandate. But a repeal of...

TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Tossing, turning and can't fall asleep? The answer isn't waiting it out -- it's getting help so your insomnia doesn't persist, a new Canadian study shows.Among more than 3,000 adults followed for five years, researchers found that 37.5% of those who started the study with insomnia still had it five years later. The persistence of that insomnia was higher in those who had worse insomnia at the beginning.They also discovered that nearly 14% of participants who had no insomnia to start developed insomnia by their five-year follow-up."We know that when insomnia persists all the time, that it may be associated with a number of negative health outcomes," said study author Charles Morin, a professor of psychology at Laval University in Quebec...

TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- White women who experience early menopause are three times more likely to also experience heart trouble at a younger age than their peers who undergo menopause later in life, new research shows.The study compared heart disease risk in white and Black women who underwent menopause before age 40 with those who started afterward. Menopause most often begins between ages 45 and 55.Researchers followed 2,136 women for a median of 14 years after menopause began and found more cases of coronary heart disease, peripheral artery disease, stroke and heart failure among white women who started menopause early compared to those who did not.While there was no significant difference in premature heart disease between the two groups of Black...

TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- After declining steadily for more than a decade, new research shows the number of people dying from cardiac arrests is climbing. And the greatest increase is among young Black adults.The study, which is being presented Friday at the American Heart Association's virtual Scientific Sessions, pulled data from 311,065 death certificates for Black and white people in the United States who died from cardiac arrest from 1999-2018.Researchers found deaths from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating, initially dropped by nearly half. The rate fell from 80.1 deaths per million people in 1999 to 44.3 per million people in 2012.But then it reversed course, climbing 8.8% overall from 2012 to 2018. The increase was...