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Hundreds of incarcerated people are dying of hep C — even though we have a simple cure

15.12.2022

FALLS CITY, Neb. — John Ritchie shouldn’t have died. He knew he had hepatitis C. And he knew, too, about the simple, once-daily pills that could fully cure him of …

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Health Tech

‘Out of control’: Dozens of telehealth startups sent sensitive health information to big tech companies

13.12.2022

Open the website of Workit Health, and the path to treatment starts with a simple intake form: Are you in danger of harming yourself or others? If not, what’s your …

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Health

With a promising new plan to pay for pricey cures, two states set out to eliminate hepatitis C. But cost hasn’t been the biggest problem

13.09.2022

WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, many experts assumed the biggest obstacle to eliminating hepatitis C was the sky-high cost of the new cures. So when Washington state and Louisiana …

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Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism

15.08.2022

ATLANTA — When a new person comes into his living room, a giggly “E” smiles and passes a balloon her way. His fifth birthday was a few weeks ago, and …

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Coronavirus / Health

Encouraged by right-wing doctor groups, desperate patients turn to ivermectin for long Covid

26.07.2022

Almost two years have passed since Dean Fritzemeier fell ill with Covid in October 2020. As the rest of the world moves on, shrugging off new variants and traveling with …

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Health

‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents

20.06.2022

Rosandra Daywalker had always excelled. The daughter of Haitian and Jamaican parents in Miami — one an auto parts clerk, the other a nurse — she’d received a nearly perfect …

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A psychedelic therapist allegedly took millions from a Holocaust survivor, highlighting worries about elders taking hallucinogens

21.04.2022

He made a new life for himself in California. After surviving the Holocaust and growing up under Hungarian fascism and Russia’s communist regime, George Sarlo arrived in the United States …

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In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

20.10.2021

Cindy Bradley-Graziadei almost didn’t take the test. By the time she saw it advertised, in 2017, she was pretty much past the point of mustering any hope. Her pain had …

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Health

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities

23.09.2021

Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals …

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