After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their emergency departments slowed to a crawl
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US Food and Drug Administration issues report claiming marijuana has legitimate medical uses - proposes rescheduling
51 votes -
Idaho needs doctors: But many don't want to come
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The war on recovery: how the US is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
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‘We’re hemorrhaging money’: US health clinics try to stay open after unprecedented cyberattack
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New York midwife fined for giving 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines
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Single dose of clinical-grade LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, wins approval for phase III trials
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Maine mass shooter had traumatic brain injury, scan shows
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The problem with California Prop 1
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US prescription market hamstrung for nine days (so far) by ransomware attack
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‘There is no help’: US nurses’ suicide rate rising amid staff shortage and stress
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How Steward Health left Rockledge Regional Medical Center, a Space Coast community hospital, in a literal world of shit
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UK's NHS faces legal action over contract with data firm Palantir
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The Arizona school setting kids with autism up for success
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A US drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis
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Research at the heart of a US lawsuit against the abortion pill has been retracted
28 votes -
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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The US hasn't seen syphilis numbers this high since 1950
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How US insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists
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EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic
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Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
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Pharma bro Martin Shkreli goes ballistic on US federal appeals court for upholding lifetime ban from pharma industry
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Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old American boy to hear for the first time
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American Red Cross declares an emergency blood shortage, as number of donors hits twenty-year low
52 votes -
High prices at Monterey County hospitals drive away many insured Californians
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Philadelphia health department warns of measles cluster among unvaccinated residents that originated with CHOP patient
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A quiet merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA reveals how bro-style executives control US medical data
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How two US pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine decongestants don’t work
32 votes -
Traveling for abortion - the untold story
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Some US pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
42 votes -
The US Supreme Court will rule on limits to the use of Mifeprestone, a commonly used abortion medication
16 votes -
US Obstetrics and Gynecology certification examinations are being held in person in Texas
18 votes -
US Food and Drug Administration approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR
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Despite new Respiratory Syncytial Virus shots, most older US adults remain unvaccinated
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Some developments in US abortion litigation in response to the Dobbs decision - other constitutional rights such as the right to travel are now in question
26 votes -
Why anonymous sperm donation is over in the US and why that matters
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Melatonin use soars among US children, with unknown risks
29 votes -
Health insurers have been breaking US state laws for years
24 votes -
US court orders Balance of Nature to stop sales of supplements after Food and Drug Administration lawsuits
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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
52 votes -
Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them
50 votes -
Verdict reached in Maya Kowalski civil suit against John Hopkins All Childrens' Hospital
6 votes -
You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim. Some US insurers still won’t tell you.
25 votes -
Infants are born with syphilis in growing numbers, a sign of a wider US epidemic
18 votes -
Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies
37 votes -
An Idaho woman and her son have been charged with kidnapping after prosecutors say they took the son’s minor girlfriend to Oregon to get an abortion
31 votes -
Why the US never saves money on health care
25 votes -
Why Amarillo, Texas hit pause on proposed abortion travel ban adopted elsewhere in Texas
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Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story
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Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients
36 votes