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Research at a Price

President Donald Trump recently released an ambitious, 44-page plan to drive down prescription drug prices. The blueprint relies, in part, on negotiating and enforcing trade deals to prevent other countries from freeloading off of American researchers. That’s a smart strategy. Right now, most of our trading partners impose government price controls on drugs. Ensuring that […]

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CVS Launches Pilot for Virtual Care

More care is moving to retail settings, and virtual offerings are increasingly becoming part and parcel of that experience. Last month, Rite Aid inked a letter of intent with InTouch Health to bring virtual care to remote areas. The companies also plan to offer the services at alternative care sites, such as Rite Aid pharmacies. […]

Hotel’s Guests May Have Been Exposed to Legionnaires’

The state Department of Health is warning that guests at the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel between July 16 and Aug. 1 and were near the pool and spa may have been exposed to Legionella bacteria. Legionella bacteria can cause a serious type of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease. The bacteria can also cause Pontiac fever Read […]

Report: Military Base Water May Be Cause of Cancers

OSCODA, Mich. — A federal health agency says contaminated drinking water might have caused cancer and other chronic disease among veterans and families who lived at a former northern Michigan military base. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry released last month a draft report about the Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, […]

Study: Immigrants Use Healthcare System Less than Americans Do

Slightly over half of Americans — 52 percent — believe that immigrants are a financial burden on the U.S. healthcare system, and two thirds believe that undocumented immigrants should not be eligible for social services provided by state and local governments. A study published Thursday in the International Journal of Health Services finds that immigrants […]

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When Doctors Don’t Listen to Women

After a while, the true-life horror stories women tell about their struggles to get reproductive health care start to bleed together. They almost always feature some variation on the same character: the doctor who waves a hand and says, “You’ll be fine,” or “That’s just in your head,” or “Take a Tylenol.” They follow an […]

States Fighting Trump on Limited Health Plans

The Trump administration’s new policy of expanding the sale of “short-term” insurance plans as a cheaper alternative to ObamaCare is quickly running into opposition from state regulators. The Department of Health and Human Services is urging states to cooperate with the federal government, but instead, insurance commissioners are panning the new plans as “junk” insurance […]

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Research Finds Black Men Get Better Care from Black Doctors

In the U.S., racial and ethnic minorities have higher rates of chronic disease, obesity, and premature death than white people. Black patients in particular have among the worst health outcomes, experiencing higher rates of hypertension and stroke. And black men have the lowest life expectancy of any demographic group, living on average 4.5 fewer years […]

Travel and Reflections on Educating for Health Equity

I am connected to centuries of civil rights milestones that changed reality for African-American children like me. Now, as a medical educator, I use “my day job” to reach deep beneath the surface of society to the same streams that have systematically deflected and diminished the value of Americans of African descent since this nation’s founding.

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Trump Effect

A proposed rule by the Trump administration would prohibit health centers that rely on Title X federal funding for family planning services from providing women with information about abortion services. The Trump administration is, once again, going after Planned Parenthood but this rule change is bigger than Planned Parenthood. There are 95 Title X health […]

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An AIDS Solution for Africa Comes out of Israel

Circumcision – dating back to Abraham – is the oldest surgical procedure in the world. It has always represented entry to membership in the Jewish people among males, whether in infancy or later in life. Yet, an Israeli circumcision initiative that has nothing to do with religious identification and is performed on teens and men […]

Pregnant Women Advised to Get Group B Strep Vaccine

If you are pregnant, talk with your doctor or midwife about getting a GBS test. It doesn’t matter if you did or did not have this type of bacteria before; each pregnancy is different. CDC recommends getting it when you are 35–37 weeks pregnant. The test is an easy swab of the vagina and rectum […]

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