University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes ~health healthcare Article 3035 words 14 votes
No body's business but mine: How menstruation apps are sharing your data ~health healthcare Link 6 votes
LumiThera raises cash for medical device that uses light to fight vision loss ~health healthcare Article 367 words 4 votes
How big pharma was captured by the one percent ~health healthcare medicine Article 3231 words, published Jun 28 2018 4 votes
Forty-eight male patients say a USC doctor sexually abused them — and the university was warned ~health healthcare Article 5407 words 9 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. ~humanities religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
Rural hospitals get a boost with the help of a partnership with Banner Health ~health healthcare Article 328 words 2 votes
He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious? ~health healthcare medicine Article 4724 words 8 votes
'I lost everything': The obscene cost of being a woman with a chronic health problem ~health healthcare Article 2238 words, published Jul 26 2019 7 votes
Dialysis firm cancels $524,600.17 medical bill after journalists investigate ~health healthcare Article 670 words 10 votes
A doctor shortage is looming, and a Clinton-era policy is partly to blame ~health healthcare Article 1015 words 6 votes
The child abuse contrarian: A renowned scientist turned expert witness relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison ~health healthcare Article 7679 words, published Sep 26 2018 9 votes
How Finland is coping with an ageing population – online lunch clubs are the start of a remote care revolution ~life Article 1169 words, published Jun 26 2019 9 votes
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan – Afghan clinics reopening days after Taliban forced closure ~health healthcare Article 362 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
‘I need a superman for me’: Homeless home care worker advocates for better working conditions, a living wage ~life Link 9 votes
Turning twenty-six is a potential death sentence for people with type 1 diabetes in America ~health healthcare medicine Article 2859 words 14 votes
Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain ~health healthcare medicine Link 9 votes
Shortages of medicines in Sweden are an increasing problem – other countries in Europe are also being affected ~health healthcare Link 4 votes
California's aggressive pro-vaccination policies have made a big difference ~health medicine healthcare Article 550 words 9 votes
Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach ~health medicine healthcare Article 1670 words 4 votes
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients ~health nsfw healthcare medicine Article 2407 words 17 votes
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins ~health medicine healthcare Article 6415 words 7 votes
US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care ~health healthcare Article 10 votes
German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US? ~health healthcare Article 1690 words, published Jun 19 2019 8 votes
The medical ethics of fertility clinics refusing to treat prospective mothers they consider too large ~health healthcare Article 4924 words 6 votes
A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker ~health healthcare Article 1415 words 6 votes
How doctors die: What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little ~health healthcare Article 1923 words, published Dec 1 2011 7 votes
Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks ~health healthcare Article 1647 words 15 votes
The cancer capital of America: Eastern Kentucky is poor, remote, and inadequately serviced, and those factors have led to alarming rates of cancer in the area ~health healthcare Article 2937 words 7 votes
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin ~health healthcare medicine Article 249 words 11 votes
The MTHFR gene and why anti-vax doctors are ordering 23andMe tests ~science biology medicine Article 496 words 12 votes
The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care ~health healthcare Article 1477 words 6 votes
Oregon considers changing the way mentally ill people are committed ~health mental health healthcare Article 1220 words 4 votes
Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy ~health.mental Article 1012 words 8 votes
Why physicians are prescribing time in nature ~health.mental Article 4615 words, published May 1 2019 6 votes
Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices? ~health healthcare medicine Article 1125 words 6 votes
Don’t visit your doctor in the afternoon - everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians ~health healthcare Article 461 words 9 votes
US President Donald Trump issues ‘freedom to discriminate’ healthcare order ~lgbt lgbt rights Article 307 words 20 votes
I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month ~health healthcare medicine Article 4428 words, published Apr 26 2019 11 votes
House calls can lead to dramatically better health outcomes among the elderly ~health healthcare Article 2027 words 5 votes
When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work ~health healthcare Article 504 words 8 votes
For incarcerated Hepatitis C patients, adequate treatment is hard to come by ~health healthcare Article 1392 words 7 votes
How doctors and the church conspired to stop an 11-year-old girl from having an abortion after rape ~health healthcare Article 6260 words 12 votes
People left weakened and devastated by California's deadliest wildfire keep dying as hospitals remain overwhelmed ~enviro Article 1300 words 8 votes
I'm a paramedic, please stop asking me about the worst thing I've ever seen ~life work Article 1201 words 21 votes