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Don't Want A Vaccine? Be Prepared To Pay More For Insurance
Most private health insurance companies have allowed waivers protecting patients from exorbitant COVID-19 treatment costs to lapse.
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New Moms Latched On To Remote Breastfeeding Help. Will Demand Wane As Pandemic Fades?
Support for breastfeeding was upended last year, when it no longer seemed safe to take in-person classes at health and other facilities.
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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires In The South
Conservative white evangelical Christians' decades-long, state-by-state strategy to chip away at abortion access flourishes in the South.
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Unraveling The Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta The Most Transmissible COVID Virus Yet
The 4-day incubation period makes delta is the most dangerous coronavirus variation yet, making people more contagious sooner.
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CA Makes It Easier For Low-Income To Get Free Health Coverage
A provision in CA's approved state budget will eliminate an "asset" test for the 2 million Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal and Medicare.
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CA Takes Nibble At Offering Food Stamps To Undocumented Residents
Democrats in the state legislature this year proposed opening CA's state-funded food stamp program to all, regardless of immigration status.
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How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction: One Patient's Tragic Death
Jameson Rybak fell victim to two huge gaps in the U.S. health care system: the scarcity of addiction treatment and high medical costs.
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Dying Patients With Rare Diseases Struggle To Get Experimental Therapies
Age and other factors are preventing some from getting the experimental therapies they may need.
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Teen Volunteers Get A Foot In The Door For Nursing Home Careers
Geriatric programs have helped teenagers get hands-on experience.
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We May Never Know Whether The $56,000-A-Year Alzheimer's Drug Actually Works
An underlying problem exists wit the FDA’s “accelerated” pathway to approve drugs for conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
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Biden Caught In The Middle Of Polarizing Abortion Politics
It took five months for the Biden administration to make a substantive policy change to advance abortion rights.
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‘An Arm And A Leg': Tips For Fighting Medical Bills From ProPublica's Marshall Allen
Don't just pay the exorbitantly high bill and grumble. Here are some tips to help you take on the health care grifters.
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Rural Ambulance Services In Jeopardy As Volunteers Age, Expenses Mount
About a third of U.S. rural EMS agencies are in immediate operational jeopardy because they can't find personnel or cover their costs.
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Research Finds J&J Vaccine Effective Against Delta Variant
Data released Thursday night by Johnson & Johnson also showed that protection against the Delta variant may be long-lasting.
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Damage To Children's Education — And Their Health — Could Last A Lifetime
Experts say many young Americans have fallen behind socially, academically and emotionally as the pandemic effects could last years.
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COVID's Lingering Effects Can Put The Brakes On Elective Surgeries
As the number of people who have had Covid grows, medical experts are trying to determine when it’s safe for them to have elective surgery.
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Decline In Life Expectancy Hits Black, Hispanic Americans Hardest
Life expectancy across the country plummeted by nearly two years from 2018 to 2020, the largest decline since 1943.
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Thousands Of Young Children Lost Parents To Virus. Where's Help For Them?
Five months after her husband died of COVID-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children.
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Hospitals, Insurers Invest Big Dollars To Tackle Patients' Social Needs
Organizations have looked into whether addressing patients’ social needs improves health and lowers medical costs over the last decade.
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Hemmed In At Home, Nonprofit Hospitals Look For Profits Abroad
Nonprofit hospitals are as aggressive as commercial hospitals in seeking to dominate their health care markets.
