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Covid-19
Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective COVID Antibody TreatmentsUse of the newly ineffective treatments produced by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Co. is highest in a dozen...
Clinical Care
Kidney Failure, Emergency Rooms and Medical Debt. The Unseen Costs of Food Poisoning. A salmonella outbreak sickened more than 60 people at a funeral reception in Texas. Two years later, some of them...
Clinical Care
The War on Cancer at 50: The Origin Story Begins With a Socialite Citizen-LobbyistMary Laske became an activist, philanthropist and strategist focused on supporting medical research.
Payer
NICU Bill Installment Plan: That’ll Be $45,843 a Month for 12 Months, PleaseAfter baby Dorian Bennett arrived two months early and spent more than 50 days in the neonatal ICU, his parents...
Clinical Care
Wartime Trauma Hits Close to Home for Scholar of DementiaA new five-year study will follow more than 500 Vietnamese elders in Northern California, measuring how early life adversity, trauma...
Innovation
FDA Approves VR Treatment for Chronic Lower Back PainHealthcare providers will soon be able to prescribe a virtual reality treatment that uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help patients...
Clinical Care
As Overdose Deaths Soar, DEA-Wary Pharmacies Shy From Dispensing Addiction MedicationThe DEA is exacerbating the opioid epidemic by scaring pharmacies away from dispensing this medication when it's desperately needed.
Strategy
Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It's 100% Preventable.The United States' inability to curb a treatable sexually transmitted disease shows the failures of a cash-strapped public health system....
Covid-19
ICUs are filled with COVID — and regretIn hospitals throughout the South as well as in parts of California and Oregon, more than 50% of the inpatients...
Covid-19
ECMO Life Support Is a Last Resort for COVID, and in Short Supply in SouthDoctors often describe ECMO as a way to let the lungs "rest" ? especially useful when even ventilation isn't fully...
Telehealth
Teladoc Offers Hurricane Ida's Victims Free Virtual CareTo access the service, telephone Teladoc directly at 855-225-5032.
Clinical Care
12,000 Square Miles Without Obstetrics? It's a Possibility in West TexasSome pregnant women already travel an hour and a half or longer to reach the 25-bed Big Bend Regional in...