Medicare’s regulations for enrolling in hospice exclude many dementia patients who need it the most.
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When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Medical debt can have devastating consequences.
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Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.
Women’s own negative medical experiences influence their vaccine decisions for their kids.
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Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position in the 21st century.
Its price will take your breath away.
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An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
A man takes a free HIV test during the Harlem Pride parade in New York City.
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When appropriate care is available, several studies have shown, gay Black men are more likely to test themselves for HIV and engage in less risky sexual behaviors than gay men of other races.
Scoliosis is a prevalent and underappreciated condition across Canada.
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Scoliosis is a treatable condition, but only if detected early. Greater awareness of the condition and its dynamics will greatly aid in patient care moving forward.
Since Jan. 1, 2023, 10 inmates have died at Fulton County Jail.
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Higher jail mortality is related to jail turnover rates and demographics.
Many colonias along the Texas-Mexico border still lack basic infrastructure, including running water.
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Halfway to the SDGs’ 2030 deadline, countries have made progress, but most are struggling to meet all 17 goals. The US is no exception.
A migrant worker picks crabs in Hoopers Island, Maryland.
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With more than 2 million migrant workers finding food processing jobs in rural America, their struggle to find adequate health care remains elusive.
Tuberculosis is a dangerous bacterial infection of the lungs.
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Tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease, yet before the pandemic, it killed more people than any other infectious disease.
COVID-19 hasn’t vanished, but at this point it’s doing less damage.
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The emergency status allowed the federal government to cut through a mountain of red tape, with the goal of responding to the pandemic more efficiently.
Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children.
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The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.
Gender-diverse adults have a harder time getting effective primary and preventive health care than their nontransgender counterparts.
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From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
The price physicians charge for every surgery, checkup or other procedure has a precise formula behind it.
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A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.
Reporters waiting outside a private meeting between advisers to President Biden and Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema about the Build Back Better Act on Capitol Hill, Sept. 30, 2021.
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A quarter of Americans don’t know how they feel about the Build Back Better Act. Focusing on Americans’ individual stories – and not just political theater – could help fuel civic engagement.
When Black patients are treated by Black doctors, they have better health outcomes – but fewer than 6 in 100 American doctors are Black.
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Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.
Black men who have sex with men in Southern states have a low rate of using HIV prevention treatments.
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This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
It’s estimated that up to 400,000 Americans die every year from medical mistakes.
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Mistakes at the hands of health care providers are a major cause of death in the US. And many of the blunders are a byproduct of the system.
A new rule is intended to let patients comparison shop for hospital services.
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Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
Medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccines need to be matched with programs that tackle health inequality.
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Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.