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At Raucous Hearing, No Unity On Vaping Issues
A hearing before a House Oversight and Reform Committee panel on how to address the crisis of respiratory injuries related to vaping turned surprisingly partisan.
C贸mo viajar a Latinoam茅rica para ir al dentista, ahorrar dinero y broncearse
Los estadounidenses gastaron $2,600 millones en turismo m茅dico y dental en 2018. Dos destinos dentales, y tur铆sticos, son M茅xico y Costa Rica, en donde muchos combinan coronas con playa y sol.
How To Get Bargain Dentistry And A Vacation To Boot
Dentistry in the U.S. can get expensive, even with good insurance. So more people are taking a trip to beautiful Costa Rica to cut the dentistry bill 鈥 and perhaps get a tan.
Comparando las farmacias de tu vecindario con las de Alemania
No son como CVS, Rite Aid o Walgreens, las que tienes a la vuelta de la esquina. Die Apotheke, como se llama aqu铆 a una farmacia, vende casi exclusivamente medicamentos.
Shopping At The Apotheke: Compare German Pharmacies With Your Corner Drugstore
Germany鈥檚 pharmacies provide insights into the country鈥檚 low drug prices and strict regulations. But they鈥檙e still businesses.
Tecnolog铆a casera ofrece m谩s libertad a los pacientes para controlar su diabetes
La diabetes tipo 1 es una condici贸n cr贸nica que requiere un estricto control de la glucosa y la administraci贸n de la cantidad de insulina precisa. Pacientes crearon un sistema para mantener ese equilibrio vital.
DIY Tech Gives People More Freedom In Managing Diabetes
People with diabetes say they鈥檝e been waiting for years for better technology to manage their chronic condition. Tired of waiting, some tech-savvy, do-it-yourselfers are constructing their own devices using open-source programming instructions.
En Tijuana, madres migrantes esperan dos fechas l铆mite: el parto y la corte
M谩s mujeres embarazadas deben vivir meses en refugios en la frontera, esperando por sus audiencias de asilo en EE.UU. Reciben poco o ninguna atenci贸n prenatal.
Migrant Moms Await Due Dates And Court Dates
A growing number of pregnant women are among the migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Many must wait in Mexico until their cases are heard, spending weeks or months in migrant shelters with limited access to health care.
Vaccine Drama On Display In California鈥檚 Capitol
Hundreds of protesters descended on the state Capitol on Thursday, warning against government tyranny and corporate greed. Their target: not taxes, not high-tech surveillance, but a bill that would determine which kids must get their routine shots.
Senators Agree Surprise Medical Bills Must Go. But How?
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is scheduled next week to mark up a massive legislative package on curbing health costs, but some of the details remain unresolved, including what formula to use to pay doctors and hospitals involved in surprise medical bills.
House Hagglers Zero In On Single-Payer And It All Comes Down To Two Little Words
At Wednesday鈥檚 House Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office experts outlined the complexities of implementing an overhaul of America鈥檚 health insurance system.
Drug Industry Patents Go Under Senate Judiciary Committee鈥檚 Microscope
During a hearing Tuesday, panel members focused on how drug companies have used patents to allegedly protect their competitive edge and profits.
A Big Hearing For 鈥楳edicare-For-All鈥 鈥 In A Small Room
In an unusual move, the House Rules Committee, instead of one of the panels that typically oversee health policy, held the first House hearing in a decade about converting the U.S. to a government-financed health care system.
Destination Limbo: Health Suffers Among Asylum Seekers In Crowded Border Shelter
Asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, housed in migrant shelters in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, are often sick and exhausted from their long journeys. Volunteer health workers from Southern California recently sent a mobile clinic to one of those shelters and spent a day tending to its inhabitants.
Migrantes reciben atenci贸n m茅dica en abarrotado refugio de Tijuana
En los albergues, migrantes centroamericanos y mexicanos muchas veces est谩n enfermos y debilitados. Un grupo de voluntarios de California llev贸 una cl铆nica m贸vil a uno de estos lugares para atenderlos.
The Blame Game: Everyone And No One Is Raising Insulin Prices
During Wednesday鈥檚 House subcommittee hearing on insulin price hikes, drug makers and benefits managers pointed fingers at each other for the last decade鈥檚 300% price increase, frustrating congressional representatives.
Can Someone Tell Me What A PBM Does?
The Senate Finance Committee鈥檚 third drug-pricing hearing focused on pharmacy benefit managers, and was more of a fact-finding mission on how these companies operate than a debate about policy proposals.
Crece la idea de Medicare para Todos en lugares inesperados
En estados como Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho y Missouri, se han realizado una serie de eventos para aprovechar la energ铆a que existe por la idea de Medicare para Todos.
鈥楳edicare-For-All鈥 Gets Buzzy In Unexpected Locales
At recent 鈥渂arnstorming鈥 meetings in South Carolina and West Virginia, activists felt momentum behind their 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 cause even as they ready for a major political fight.
