Sweden has consistently reported some of the lowest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world – unfortunately these achievements don't extend to foreign-born mothers
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Boarding patients in the emergency department while they wait for available beds is a significant problem that increases avoidable US deaths
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How US insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists
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Over-capacity ERs are dangerous choke points. But hospital challenges go far deeper.
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Why are antidepressants so popular in Iceland? | Mindset
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High prices at Monterey County hospitals drive away many insured Californians
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Can doctors in England detain you under the Mental Health Act if they've only met you in MS Teams? (No, not any more)
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How many of you wouldn't be alive if it weren't for modern medicine?
I very much would not be. My son had a rough birth, but it probably wouldn't have killed him or my wife. Both my brothers had children in the last six months. Neither of the kids would have...
I very much would not be. My son had a rough birth, but it probably wouldn't have killed him or my wife.
Both my brothers had children in the last six months. Neither of the kids would have survived, and one of the mothers would definitely have died.
The better question might be: how many of you can say for sure you'd be alive without modern medicine?
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Who determines Kate Cox’s health care
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Despite new Respiratory Syncytial Virus shots, most older US adults remain unvaccinated
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Health insurers have been breaking US state laws for years
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US lawsuit on behalf of deceased patients alleges United Health denies care based on AI model with ninety percent error rate
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How gender-affirming health care for kids works in Canada
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New book by doctor licensed in the UK and Brazil: poorer countries have useful knowledge and methods they could teach about frugal health care
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Why the US never saves money on health care
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Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?
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Woman denied medication for being of childbearing age
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US Senator calls for Department of Justice action against Philips for keeping CPAP machine complaints secret
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What happens when nurses are hired like Ubers
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Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history
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Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that.
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Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
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US police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ Emergency physicians consider formally disavowing the diagnosis
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Joe Biden administration grants Seattle Children's Hospital $240K for LGBT sex education tool
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds
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Experts fear rural Americans are on their own during Medicaid unwinding
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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
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Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike
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The hidden system of legal kickbacks shaping the US prescription drug market
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How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine’s critical moment.
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Poland's crusade against abortion investigates miscarriages, tests blood for evidence of abortion pills, created a national pregnancy registry
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How Columbia ignored women, undermined prosecutors and protected a predator for more than twenty years
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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
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Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating in the UK
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NarxCare score may influence who can get or prescribe pain medication
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Thousands donate to save Florida abortion clinic amid crippling state fines
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Centene to sell GP clinics and hospitals in exit from UK market
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Does cancer screening actually save lives?
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Foreskin reclaimers: The ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision
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Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
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Texas has quietly changed its abortion law - explicitly allowing abortion for premature ruptured membrane and ectopic pregnancy - how it happened
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A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately
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