America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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A California church raised money to pay off the medical debts of 5,555 struggling Los Angeles–area residents, wiping out more than $5 million in bills.
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The debate over America’s drug-pricing system is built on myths
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Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government.
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
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Nothing to sneeze at: $2,659 bill to pluck doll's shoe from girl's nose
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Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
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Germany makes measles vaccination compulsory
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The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise
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Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
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The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200
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University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
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The inclusive languages used by the English NHS
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LumiThera raises cash for medical device that uses light to fight vision loss
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How big pharma was captured by the one percent
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Rural hospitals get a boost with the help of a partnership with Banner Health
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He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
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'I lost everything': The obscene cost of being a woman with a chronic health problem
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Dialysis firm cancels $524,600.17 medical bill after journalists investigate
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A doctor shortage is looming, and a Clinton-era policy is partly to blame
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Why a "public option" isn't enough
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The insulin racket
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Swedish Committee for Afghanistan – Afghan clinics reopening days after Taliban forced closure
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Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain
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Shortages of medicines in Sweden are an increasing problem – other countries in Europe are also being affected
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Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach
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Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
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The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
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German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
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A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker
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Data bleeding everywhere: A story of period trackers
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How doctors die: What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little
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Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks
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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
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
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The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care
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Oregon considers changing the way mentally ill people are committed
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Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy
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Why physicians are prescribing time in nature
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Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
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Don’t visit your doctor in the afternoon - everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
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House calls can lead to dramatically better health outcomes among the elderly
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When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
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For incarcerated Hepatitis C patients, adequate treatment is hard to come by
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How doctors and the church conspired to stop an 11-year-old girl from having an abortion after rape
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Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation
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The fertility doctor’s secret children - Donald Cline used his own sperm to inseminate over fifty of his patients without their knowledge
9 votes