Study Offers Young Doctors Strategies To Deal With Discrimination
A survey of experienced physicians offer interns and residents suggestions about how to handle patients who are prejudiced.
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How To Enroll In Medicare And Avoid Costly Mistakes
Enrolling in Medicare is confusing and mind-boggling if you don鈥檛 act at the right time and avoid costly mistakes.
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Drug Prices, Not The Health Law, Top Voters鈥 Health Priorities For 2017
Majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents support making sure high-cost drugs for chronic conditions are affordable.
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Clinton Took More Conciliatory Tone With Health Care Industry In Paid Speeches
WikiLeaks documents show a cautious speaker who tried to avoid compromises on policy.
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Video: How Obamacare Premium Hikes Affect Politics And Your Wallet
PBS NewsHour鈥檚 Judy Woodruff talks to Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News and Reid Wilson of The Hill.
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What Would A Public Insurance Option Look Like?
UCLA health policy expert Gerald Kominski says a 鈥減ublic option鈥 health plan would look a lot like private insurance, and politics will determine whether it would happen on a state or national level.
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Colorado Wrestles With Ethics Of Aid-In-Dying As Vote Looms
Proposition 106, on Colorado’s ballot next month, would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to people who have less than six months to live. A recent poll shows strong support for the measure.
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Terminally Ill Patients Don鈥檛 Use Aid-In-Dying Laws To Relieve Pain
Ending pain and suffering has helped several states pass 鈥渞ight-to-die鈥 laws, but dying patients are more concerned about controlling how they die and dying with dignity.
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States See Peer-Recovery Coaches As A Way To Break The Addiction Epidemic
Rhode Island installed coaches in all of the state鈥檚 hospital emergency rooms and others are following its lead.
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Will A Study Save Victims Of Violence Or Gamble With Their Lives?
A major study in Philadelphia will look at whether it is better for people with gunshot or stab wounds to get basic care from paramedics or more advanced care before going to the hospital, as most do now.
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VA Shifts To Clinical Pharmacists To Help Ease Patients’ Long Waits
Some Veterans Affairs鈥 hospitals are cutting vets鈥 long waits for outpatient care appointments by authorizing specially-trained pharmacists to treat certain patients with chronic care needs.
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For Seniors, Teeth Need Care 鈥 But Insurance Coverage Is Rare
Traditional Medicare does not cover most dental needs and the private Medicare Advantage plans often have limited coverage, leaving most seniors struggling to pay for dental care out of pocket.
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Feds Find Doctor Listings Often Wrong In Medicare Advantage Directories
The federal government’s first in-depth review reveals errors such as wrong addresses and incorrect phone numbers riddle many directories used by Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.聽
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California’s RN Wages Now Highest In The Nation, Federal Data Show
Registered nurses in the state earn an average annual salary of $100,000, compared to a national average of $71,000.
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Skeptics Question The Value Of Hydration Therapy For The Healthy
Some spa-like clinics will inject an expensive mix of water and vitamins into your bloodstream, ostensibly to ward off illness and boost energy. But can’t drinking fluids offer the same benefit?
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Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, 29-year-old journalist Jake Harper wonders if that’s putting him and other men at risk.
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California鈥檚 Latino Doctors Push For More Of Their Own
More than one-third of the state鈥檚 Latino physicians plan to retire within the next 10 years, according to a new survey.
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Long-Term, Reversible Contraception Gains Traction With Young Women
Implants and intrauterine devices are endorsed by pediatricians, OB-GYNs and health officials as a way to help girls and women space their pregnancies and reduce the risk of having a premature baby.
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To Curb Unintended Pregnancy, States Turn To IUDs 鈥 In The Delivery Room
States are contemplating whether access to IUD through post-delivery procedures could be an important step in curbing unintended pregnancies.
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Researchers Unlock Mystery Of How Zika Spreads In Human Cells
Zika virus infection changes both viral and human RNA, affecting the body鈥檚 immune response, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego.
