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Saving Black Babies by Saving the Neighborhood

Black babies are two times more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies. This is a gap that has persisted in our country for decades. Around the country, people are trying in big ways and small to close it. The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies […]

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Kavanaugh & Health Care

President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy have left many to wonder: What will replacing an often swing vote with a more conservative one mean for health care? There are many pending cases in lower courts that, if they make it a […]

Neighborhood May Determine Breast Cancer Outcomes

In 2008, South Shore resident Cheryl King found a lump in her right breast. When she told a health professional at a South Side facility, he dismissed it, saying many African-Americans have lumps in their breasts. In the three months it took to get appointments and tests with other professionals to verify it was cancer, […]

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Teen with Rare Kidney Disease Waits for Donor

A Duluth teen with a rare kidney disease is in need of a life-saving transplant donor. At 16-years-old, Ramonie Smith’s schedule revolves around her 11 different medications. “I take them every day, three times a day,” she said. And her 15 hours of kidney dialysis. “Dialysis is in one word, uncomfortable. But I’ve been on […]

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Trump Choice for Family Planning Offers Odd Views

The Trump administration’s pick to run the federal family planning program known as Title X compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, according to a memo shared exclusively with Tonic by Washington Senator Patty Murray. The memo outlines the ways in which Diane Foley, a political appointee with extreme and medically inaccurate views on women’s health, could reshape the nation’s […]

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Insurers Struggle with Freeze on A.C.A. Payments

Chad Terhune, a senior correspondent at California Healthline and Kaiser Health News, discussed the latest move by the Trump administration and the potential impact in California with A Martinez, host of the “Take Two” show on Southern California Public Radio. Health insurers and Covered California officials are facing another curveball from the Trump administration on the Affordable […]

Health and Safety in the Megacity: The Challenges

The rise of cities around the globe has ushered in great challenges and great opportunities for citizens and businesses. As the share of city dwellers increases in almost every region of the world, questions about health and safety in these dense environments becomes paramount. By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be urban. […]

Trump Blasts Pfizer for Price Hikes

President Donald Trump is trying to shame the largest U.S. drugmaker for hiking prices after he earlier said industry players were planning “massive” price reductions. He said Pfizer and others “should be ashamed that they have raised drug prices for no reason” while suggesting some unspecified retaliation. A Pfizer spokesperson said the company markets more than 400 […]

Boys Rescued in Thailand Being Treated at Hospital

The first video has emerged showing some of the 12 boys receiving treatment in a hospital after surviving more than two weeks inside a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand. The footage, released by Thai officials Wednesday, shows eight of the boys sitting up in their hospital beds, clad in hospital gowns and face masks. […]

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An Alzheimer’s Patient’s Advice

About a year ago, the Register published an essay I wrote about having Alzheimer’s or as I call it, ALZ. One thing to remember is Alzheimer’s has become a generic term covering many forms of dementia. I have seen three neurologists, at Mayo Clinic and in Des Moines, and have come away somewhat confused as different neurologists […]

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Trump Reversal on Race in Admissions Raises Concerns about Diversity Among Physicians

The Association of American Medical Colleges is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s recent rescission of guidance of consideration of race in university admissions might threaten efforts to improve diversity at medical schools. Earlier this week, the administration announced it would no longer support guidance created under the Obama administration encouraging schools to take a student’s […]

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Deaths from Bacterial Disease Spiked after Maria

A Puerto Rico mortality database — which CNN and CPI sued the island’s Demographic Registry to obtain — lists 26 deaths in the six months after Hurricane Maria that were labeled by clinicians as “caused” by leptospirosis, a bacterial illness known to spread through water and soil, especially in the aftermath of storms. That’s more than twice […]

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