All posts tagged "health"
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481Lifestyle‘An Arm And A Leg’: How Much For Stitches In The ER? Hard To Gauge Upfront
Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio participant? Click here to listen. Sarah Macsalka had heard the tales about how expensive an emergency room...
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505LifestyleAnthem Blue Cross Gets Flagged And Fined More Than Other Insurers
One of California’s largest medical insurance plans has distinguished itself, and never in a great way. The state Department of Managed Health...
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505LifestyleAn Atlanta Nonprofit Brings Medical Care And Connection To The Homeless
Herman Ware bought his seasonal flu shot whereas sitting at a small, wobbly desk inside a cellular well being clinic. The clinic-on-wheels...
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500LifestyleHHS Hands Out Free HIV Prevention Drugs. Do You Qualify?
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration Tuesday unveiled a plan to distribute HIV prevention treatment free to people who...
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538LifestyleBuilt For Counterterrorism, This High-Tech Machine Is Now Used To Detect Fentanyl
This story is a part of a partnership that features WBUR, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story will be republished without...
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531LifestyleCandidates Are Betting Big On Health. Is That What Voters Really Want?
The one factor we find out about well being care within the 2020 Democratic presidential main race is that it’s a high...
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552LifestyleMedical Device Failures Brought To Light Now Bolster Lawsuits And Research
Lorraine Bonner, a retired Oakland, Calif., physician who’s now a sculptor, says she spent a 12 months recovering after surgical staples have...
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501Lifestyle‘I Feel Like I’m In Jail’: Hospital Alarms Torment Patients
Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with superior lung most...
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467LifestyleFor Artist Inspired By Illness, ‘Gratitude Outweighs Pain’
From left: “Ascension” by Dylan Mortimer, 2016; “Rejection that Brings Reconciliation” by Dylan Mortimer, 2019 [partner-box]KANSAS CITY, Mo. — People typically ask...
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552LifestyleA Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That’s Raising His Risk Of Deportation
Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media When José moved his household to the United States from Mexico almost twenty years in the...