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Healthcare practitioners face a difficult situation – they have the right to be protected, but are legally required to treat patients.
Healthcare staff may not know how to meet an LGBT patient’s unique needs.
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Lack of training and skills among those who work in the area may lead to LGBT people receiving poorer palliative care.
Lack of technology infrastructure is a barrier to mobile healthcare in Nigeria
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Mobile technology has great potential to improve healthcare in Nigeria but government must provide regulatory framework.
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We’ve prevented many deaths, many of them at the cost of other deaths. The accounting ought to be made clear.
One of the President’s moves in health care had surprising results.
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The idea, says our experts, was to shut down Obamacare. But it didn’t work out that way. This could take on more importance as the number of uninsured swells due to coronavirus.
A volunteer sets up beds in what would have been a field hospital in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York.
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Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn’t come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages.
A nurse (left) operates a robot used to interact remotely with coronavirus patients while a physician looks on.
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Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
A doctor measures a worker’s temperature in Kitui, Kenya. With technology, AI and human resources, Africa’s health systems can take on COVID-19.
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AI can supplement the efforts of available medical personnel - and help keep them safe.
South Korean television shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watching a missile launch in late March.
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Despite its proximity to China and South Korea, North Korea says it has no cases of COVID-19.
Closing the door on another presidential run.
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Bernie Sanders is the antithesis of a political showman who says one thing today, another tomorrow. Perhaps, in the end, that was his undoing.
Health workers test for COVID-19 in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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A group of population experts have called on governments in Latin American and the Caribbean to urgently ramp up testing for COVID-19 before it’s too late.
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Trying to maximise lives saved will inevitably be contentious and imperfect.
Cuban doctors arrive in Italy to help fight COVID-19.
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Cuba stresses its programme to send doctors abroad is based in solidarity. But there are diplomatic and economic reasons too.
Netflix and lockdown.
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A sector-by-sector look at who is benefiting, who is in trouble and who could go either way.
In the U.S. health care industry, price and cost are often conflated.
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It’s not the price of health care that should concern us. It’s the cost. There’s a distinction, and it matters. Here’s why.
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A sense of wellbeing can have an important affect on parents’ decisions when it comes to health care.
A patient is transferred to a new temporary hospital in Wuhan.
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The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
Our systematic review found that sexual minority women experience worse treatment in the healthcare system.
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Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
Locked up for life?
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More inmates are growing old and dying in prison, and the system is not designed to cope.
Low blood pressure may cause problems for many older people.
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Researchers are looking for ways to determine who’s most at risk for dementia and also ways to detect it early. A scientist who has studied low blood pressure makes a case for a link between the two.