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Opinion: The real experts: people living with mental illness

23.11.2022

When Ken Duckworth was a child, his family didn’t talk about mental health, especially not his father’s bipolar disorder. It was an untouchable topic, but Duckworth knew his father shouldn’t …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The ‘First Opinion Podcast’ live from Boston: Jay Baruch returns

16.11.2022

In a special event as part of STAT’s Open Doors initiative, the “First Opinion Podcast” was recorded live this week in front of an audience with returning guest Jay Baruch. …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Covid is not a ‘racial equity success story’

09.11.2022

The idea that the narrowing gap between Covid-19 deaths among white Americans and Americans of color represents a racial equity success story is being bandied about. Not so fast, says …

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Opinion: Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here’s hoping

02.11.2022

As states begin to receive money from the multitude of lawsuits and settlements the opioid makers and distributors have agreed to pay, the number of overdose deaths in the country …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

26.10.2022

Terry Wilcox’s grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, “the day …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be even worse

12.10.2022

It took the U.S. Supreme Court just seven days last June to set back public health by 50 years. Several cases before the court this term could continue that assault. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’

05.10.2022

Modern wheelchairs have amazing capabilities. At the push of a button, they can position a user in a “standing” position, or elevate someone to eye level with a non-disabled person. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: How the Dobbs decision could affect how and where clinical trials are conducted

28.09.2022

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade opened the door to allow states to ban or severely restrict abortion. But as biotech CEO Aoife Brennan and her colleagues …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread

21.09.2022

Polio has exploded back into Americans’ consciousness after being out of the spotlight in the U.S. for half a century or so: In late summer, it paralyzed an adult in …

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