One in ten people with a Medicare card have chosen to opt out of the new My Health Record digital health system, more than 2.5 million Australians in total
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Nauru bans 'telemedicine' for medical transfers in threat to new Australian laws
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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Racial disparities in US cancer incidence and survival rates are narrowing
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Cutting through the claims: the refugee medical debate, explained. What exactly are the changes that passed through Parliament against the government's wishes, and what will they mean?
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China investigates HIV contamination of 12,000 blood plasma treatments
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Phoenix police department obtain DNA samples from Hacienda HealthCare staff in the week after vegetative patient gives birth
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Open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care via Electronic Health Records
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Five key things learned from reading 1,182 emergency room bills
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New study shows Medicare-For-All savings likely 2.5x previous estimates
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GPs to prescribe very low calorie diets in hope of reversing diabetes
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Healing the body electric: In the next five to ten years, a new generation of small networked sensors will provide doctors with up-to-the-moment insight into patients’ health
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DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears
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Indigenous Canadian women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
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My Health Record: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt bows to pressure and extends opt-out deadline as website hits issues
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Aetna ordered to pay $25.5 million after denying coverage to woman who died of cancer
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What stops some US states from providing universal healthcare on their own?
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question. Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more...
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question.
Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more into the socially liberal side of the spectrum from providing universal healthcare (or at least some better healthcare policies) on their own?
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Losing Laura - Laura Levis died from an asthma attack just outside a Boston-area ER, after calling 911 from outside its locked doors. Her husband has been piecing together how it happened.
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Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
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‘I’m Dr. Cohen’: The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
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Last chance to opt out of #MyHealthRecord, Australians! (Deadline November 15, 2018)
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Using technology to fight counterfeit medicines in Africa and South Asia
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A senior Australian doctor offering medical care to refugees on Nauru was detained by police yesterday and deported from the island this afternoon
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UK Biobank data on 500,000 people paves way to precision medicine
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Toronto's Sick Kids hospital preparing policy for euthanasia for youth over eighteen that could one day apply to minors
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The comforting fictions of dementia care
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The US was once a leader for healthcare and education — now it ranks 27th in the world
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Taken for a ride: MD injured in ATV crash gets $56,603 bill for US air ambulance trip
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Ex-UN chief Ban Ki-moon says US healthcare system is 'morally wrong'. Former UN secretary general accuses ‘powerful’ health interests in the US of blocking universal healthcare
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NHS beats drug companies in £100m Avastin battle
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GPs treat mental health issues more than any other condition, reveals the latest Health of a Nation report released by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
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Pharma chief defends 400% drug price rise as a ‘moral requirement’
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Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
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The secret drug pricing system middlemen use to rake in millions
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Does a generic EpiPen mean lower prices? Don’t hold your breath.
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The roots of cooking for the sick and why hospital food is so bad
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Considerations on cost disease
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Jehovah’s Witness girl could receive blood against her will during childbirth
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Vancouver man charged with ignoring medical health officer's orders for HIV treatment
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The imminent departure of Saudi medical residents
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An unconscious patient with a DNR tattoo
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Hospitals scrap surgeries, Venezuelans forgo showers as taps run dry
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The burnout crisis in American medicine
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The simple change that could save patient lives
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Parents break teen out of Mayo Clinic
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Five things nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer suggests might have stopped her killing
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How dropping the 'brain death' requirement has boosted organ donations in Alberta
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Overall health includes oral health: Should dental be part of universal health care
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Saudi Arabia halts all medical treatment for citizens in Canada
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The federal government's My Health Record system is capable of storing genomic information, which could turbocharge medical research but has intensified privacy and security fears
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