Anti-abortion group accused of electronically intercepting patients’ exchanges with clinic
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When is it time for an older doctor to hang up their stethoscope? We owe it to their patients to get it right.
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Study of 500,000 medical records links viruses with Alzheimer's again and again
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Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek hopes his latest brainchild, the Neko Body Scan, will revolutionise healthcare
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US Federal Trade Commission sues insulin middlemen, saying they pocket billions while patients face high costs
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How a leading chain of US psychiatric hospitals traps patients
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More than seventy per cent of dentists now accepting patients through Canadian Dental Care Plan
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The growing scientific case for using Ozempic and other GLP-1s to treat opioid, alcohol, and nicotine addiction
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UK's NHS computer problems put patients at risk of harm
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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted seven million lab-grown brain cells into a patient to treat Parkinson's disease
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Philips agrees to pay $1 billion to patients who say they were injured by breathing machines
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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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Over-capacity ERs are dangerous choke points. But hospital challenges go far deeper.
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AI may spare breast cancer patients unnecessary treatments
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London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system
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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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Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies
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Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them
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Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike
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‘Our ability to forsee the future and review the past predisposes us to mental illness’
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Wegovy may be valuable new option for heart failure patients
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Some patients who took weight-loss drugs face disturbing side effects
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US health insurance giant Cigna sued over algorithm allegedly used to deny coverage to hundreds of thousands of patients
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The UK's NHS mental health review will fail to answer its darkest secret
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Racism in medicine - the invisible effect medical notes can have on care
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How often do US health insurers say no to patients? No one knows.
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Touchlab has launched a first-of-its-kind robot which gives clinicians the ability to 'feel' patients remotely as part of a Finnish hospital pilot
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Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations
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I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients.
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This nonprofit health system cuts off US patients with medical debt
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Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google
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Nobody has my condition but me - Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient.
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Denmark is using Patient Reported Outcome questionnaires to improve medical care – can the patient's perception of the disease become part of the treatment?
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US Federal law now requires distribution of complete healthcare records to patients in digital formats
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Doctors share views on patients with disability
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A medical worker describes terrifying lung failure from COVID-19 — even in his young patients
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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 mental health zine giving the power back to patients
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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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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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The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care
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Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
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An ALS patient's dilemma: End his own life, or die slowly of the disease?
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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
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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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Faulty medical implants harm patients around world
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An unconscious patient with a DNR tattoo
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The simple change that could save patient lives
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Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
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Insurers can send patients to religious hospitals that restrict reproductive care
9 votes