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4 votes
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Turning twenty-six is a potential death sentence for people with type 1 diabetes in America
14 votes -
Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain
9 votes -
Shortages of medicines in Sweden are an increasing problem – other countries in Europe are also being affected
4 votes -
California's aggressive pro-vaccination policies have made a big difference
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
4 votes -
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
17 votes -
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
7 votes -
US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
10 votes -
German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
8 votes -
The medical ethics of fertility clinics refusing to treat prospective mothers they consider too large
6 votes -
A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker
6 votes -
Data bleeding everywhere: A story of period trackers
11 votes -
How doctors die: What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little
7 votes -
Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks
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
7 votes -
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
11 votes -
The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care
6 votes -
Oregon considers changing the way mentally ill people are committed
4 votes -
Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy
8 votes -
Why physicians are prescribing time in nature
6 votes -
Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
6 votes -
Don’t visit your doctor in the afternoon - everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians
9 votes -
I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
11 votes -
House calls can lead to dramatically better health outcomes among the elderly
5 votes -
When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
8 votes -
For incarcerated Hepatitis C patients, adequate treatment is hard to come by
7 votes -
How doctors and the church conspired to stop an 11-year-old girl from having an abortion after rape
12 votes -
Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation
18 votes -
The fertility doctor’s secret children - Donald Cline used his own sperm to inseminate over fifty of his patients without their knowledge
9 votes -
Going to work in South Africa, with a depression prescription
Good news: I'll be starting my new work in Cape Town, South Africa soon. Not so good news: I have depression, and is currently on the antidepressant Sertraline. My question would be the following:...
Good news: I'll be starting my new work in Cape Town, South Africa soon.
Not so good news: I have depression, and is currently on the antidepressant Sertraline.
My question would be the following:
How are prescriptions of the antidepressant handled in the South African health care system? Can I obtain, from either a GP or a Specialist, a sort of "long-standing" prescription, valid for (say) a few months, that will allow me to refill at pharmacies or dispensing GPs, without me having to be referred to a Specialist each time I need a refill? I understand that recurring examinations by a Specialist are likely necessary, but I don't expect those to be frequent, as my condition is fairly stable now.
Also a related question: I'm otherwise young and physically healthy, not affected by chronic conditions except depression. However, it seems that any health insurance schemes there that cover my condition would be rather expensive. Those policies typically include a broad coverage of chronic conditions, most of which I don't foresee a need. For one like myself, what suggestion would you give in terms of health insurance selection?
Many many thanks <3
7 votes -
Trump Administration blocks US funds for Planned Parenthood and others over abortion referrals
15 votes -
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
3 votes -
China investigates HIV contamination of 12,000 blood plasma treatments
6 votes -
Phoenix police department obtain DNA samples from Hacienda HealthCare staff in the week after vegetative patient gives birth
7 votes -
Five key things learned from reading 1,182 emergency room bills
15 votes -
New study shows Medicare-For-All savings likely 2.5x previous estimates
15 votes -
GPs to prescribe very low calorie diets in hope of reversing diabetes
8 votes -
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
5 votes -
DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears
11 votes -
Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
22 votes -
My Health Record: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt bows to pressure and extends opt-out deadline as website hits issues
6 votes -
Aetna ordered to pay $25.5 million after denying coverage to woman who died of cancer
13 votes -
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?
21 votes -
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.
9 votes -
Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
4 votes -
‘I’m Dr. Cohen’: The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
9 votes -
Last chance to opt out of #MyHealthRecord, Australians! (Deadline November 15, 2018)
7 votes -
Sarah Kliff brings transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time
5 votes -
UK Biobank data on 500,000 people paves way to precision medicine
8 votes