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Médicos voluntarios comparten información sobre las vacunas de covid con detenidos de ICE
Los sonidos de las ambulancias, las bocinas de los autos y el bullicio del tráfico se filtraban en la oficina del doctor Daniel Turner-Lloveras en un alto edificio del centro de Los Ángeles, mientras se acomodaba en su sofá para…
Sharing Covid Vax Facts Inside ICE Detention, One Detainee at a Time
Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News
The sounds of wailing ambulances, car horns, and bustling traffic filtered into the high-rise home office of Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras in downtown Los Angeles as he settled into a brown leather couch…
It Was Already Hard to Find Evusheld, a Covid Prevention Therapy. Now It’s Even Harder.
Hannah Recht
As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving covid therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, making the…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We May Be Done With Covid, But Covid’s Not Done With Us
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Logistics expert Jeff Zients, who has headed the White…
Covid’s ‘Silver Lining’: Research Breakthroughs for Chronic Disease, Cancer, and the Common Flu
The billions of dollars invested in covid vaccines and covid-19 research so far are expected to yield medical and scientific dividends for decades, helping doctors battle influenza, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and far more diseases.…
Missouri Tried to Fix Its Doctor Shortage. Now the Fix May Need Fixing.
Missouri state Rep. Tricia Derges is pushing a bill to give assistant physicians like herself a pathway to becoming fully licensed doctors in the state.
Not that Derges — among the highest-profile holders of the assistant…
Cómo evitar facturas médicas sorpresa… y las “trampas” de la nueva ley
Los pacientes ya no están obligados a pagar por la atención médica que hayan recibido por fuera de la red de su plan de salud sin su consentimiento, al ser tratados en hospitales que están dentro de su cobertura. Esto es así desde…
How to Avoid Surprise Bills — And the Pitfalls in the New Law
Dan Weissmann
Patients are no longer required to pay for out-of-network care given without their consent when they receive treatment at hospitals covered by their health insurance since a federal law took effect at the start of…
‘American Diagnosis’: A Fuller Moon Rising — Revised ‘Violence Against Women Act’ Offers Hope
Editor’s note: This episode includes descriptions of violence that some might find disturbing. Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, can take the form of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. If you or…
‘An Arm and a Leg’: Need an Expensive Drug? Here’s What You Need to Know
Dan Weissmann
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Lillian Karabaic teaches personal finance to millennials through a podcast and community called Oh My Dollar! — and…