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In A Puerto Rican Mountain Town, Hope Ebbs And Health Suffers
More than six months after Hurricane Maria, daily life in Castañer, Puerto Rico, is nowhere close to normal as residents try to deal with the effects of trauma, chronic stress and the continued lack of electricity.
New Medicare Perk For Diabetes Prevention Stumbles At Rollout
On April 1, Medicare launched a major initiative — a diabetes prevention program for seniors and people with serious disabilities— that is available in only a few cities.
Applying Silicon Valley Smarts To Age-Old Diseases
Customized iPhones are just one example of devices that can be used to combat health threats in developing countries. They are helping scientists in California and Cameroon attack the parasite that causes river blindness, an African scourge.
Nation’s Top Doc Wants The Overdose Antidote Widely On Hand. Is That Feasible?
Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged more people to carry the drug naloxone, a lifesaving treatment for opioid overdoses. But this policy is tricky to implement.
Drug Test Spurs Frank Talk Between Hypertension Patients And Doctors
Roughly half of patients don't take their high blood pressure medicine as they should, even though heart disease is the leading cause of death in America. Now, a drug test can flag whether a patient is taking the prescribed medication and is meant to spark a more truthful conversation between patient and doctor.
Federal Appeals Court Puts Chill On Maryland Law To Fight Drug Price-Gouging
Congress Urged To Cut Medicare Payments To Many Stand-Alone ERs
Barbara Bush's End-Of-Life Decision Stirs Debate Over ‘Comfort Care’
‘Scary’ Lung Disease Now Afflicts More Women Than Men In U.S.
Puerto Rico’s Slow-Going Recovery Means New Hardship For Dialysis Patients
PrEP Campaign Aims To Block HIV Infection And Save Lives In D.C.
FDA Launches Criminal Investigation Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research
Medical Marijuana’s ‘Catch-22’: Federal Limits On Research Hinder Patients' Relief
A Tale Of Two CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer
Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in an hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?
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