US lawsuit on behalf of deceased patients alleges United Health denies care based on AI model with ninety percent error rate ~health healthcare Article 684 words 52 votes
How gender-affirming health care for kids works in Canada ~lgbt transgender Article 1348 words 23 votes
New book by doctor licensed in the UK and Brazil: poorer countries have useful knowledge and methods they could teach about frugal health care ~health healthcare Article 1873 words 18 votes
Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them ~health healthcare Article 1308 words, published Nov 3 2023 50 votes
Nicholas’s story: ‘I’ve been locked up for ten years because I’m autistic. Is a chance at life too much to ask?’ ~health.mental Article 32 votes
Verdict reached in Maya Kowalski civil suit against John Hopkins All Childrens' Hospital ~health healthcare Video 21:30 6 votes
Why the US never saves money on health care ~finance Article 903 words, published Oct 2 2023 25 votes
Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? ~finance business Article 1699 words, published Oct 8 2023 28 votes
US Senator calls for Department of Justice action against Philips for keeping CPAP machine complaints secret ~health healthcare Article 1119 words 20 votes
Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history ~health healthcare Article 720 words 36 votes
Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that. ~enviro climate change Article 930 words 18 votes
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed ~humanities.history Video 17:49, published Jul 24 2023 40 votes
Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria ~science medicine Article 483 words, published Sep 24 2023 9 votes
Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state ~health healthcare Article 447 words 26 votes
US police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ Emergency physicians consider formally disavowing the diagnosis ~health healthcare.emergency Article 1540 words 19 votes
Joe Biden administration grants Seattle Children's Hospital $240K for LGBT sex education tool ~lgbt transgender Link 11 votes
Montana judge temporarily blocks enforcement of law to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors ~lgbt transgender Article 886 words 16 votes
Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds ~life.women Article 633 words 27 votes
Experts fear rural Americans are on their own during Medicaid unwinding ~health healthcare Article 1462 words, published Sep 20 2023 10 votes
Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants ~life Article 885 words 23 votes
Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike ~health healthcare Article 634 words, published Sep 18 2023 16 votes
The hidden system of legal kickbacks shaping the US prescription drug market ~health healthcare Article 1771 words, published Feb 27 2023 10 votes
How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine’s critical moment ~health healthcare medicine.bio Article 1195 words, published Sep 15 2023 4 votes
Poland's crusade against abortion investigates miscarriages, tests blood for evidence of abortion pills, created a national pregnancy registry ~life.women Article 614 words 66 votes
How Columbia ignored women, undermined prosecutors and protected a predator for more than twenty years ~life.women Article 8638 words 15 votes
Women who were denied emergency abortions file lawsuits in three states: Lawsuits want to clarify abortion ban exceptions for ‘medical emergencies’ in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee ~health healthcare.emergency Article 36 votes
What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight ~health healthcare medicine Article 863 words 8 votes
NarxCare score may influence who can get or prescribe pain medication ~health healthcare medicine Article 1546 words 16 votes
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections) ~finance Article 1124 words 18 votes
Centene to sell GP clinics and hospitals in exit from UK market ~health healthcare Article 290 words 14 votes
Foreskin reclaimers: The ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision ~life.men Article 1698 words 27 votes
Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds ~health healthcare medicine Article 644 words, published Aug 18 2023 58 votes
Texas has quietly changed its abortion law - explicitly allowing abortion for premature ruptured membrane and ectopic pregnancy - how it happened ~life.women Article 31 votes
A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately ~health healthcare medicine Article 990 words, published Jul 9 2023 24 votes
Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby found guilty of seven counts of murder, and seven counts of attempted murder in the UK ~health healthcare Link 24 votes
The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok ~health.mental Article 3297 words 20 votes
Midwestern US cities become transgender health sanctuaries amid GOP legislative threats ~lgbt transgender Article 1418 words 33 votes
The logistics of moving wounded World War II soldiers across the US by rail were staggeringly complex ~transport Article 2431 words 16 votes
Helsinki could become a 'sanctuary city' for medical treatment, as the new right-wing government continues to crack down on undocumented migrants ~health healthcare Article 941 words 8 votes
How one doctor in the USA keeps practicing, despite a long string of sanctions, fines, and lawsuits ~health medicine healthcare Article 4489 words 30 votes
The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives ~health healthcare Article 3532 words, published Jul 31 2023 10 votes
American Physician Partners is latest physician staffing firm to fold — it follows Envision, and physicians consider further consequences of difficult market ~health healthcare Article 797 words 9 votes