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Pandemia revela una creciente crisis de suicidios en comunidades de color
Aneri Pattani
Rafiah Maxie ha sido trabajadora social clínica en el área de Chicago durante una década. En todo ese tiempo, vio al suicidio como un problema más frecuente entre los hombres caucásicos de mediana edad.…
Hot Spots Where Covid Vaccination Lags Push Experimental Antibody Treatment
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News
For months, Joelle Ruppert was among the millions of Americans who are covid vaccine holdouts. Her reluctance, she said, was not so much that she opposed the new vaccines but that she never felt…
From Uber Vouchers to Patient Advocates: What It Takes to Increase ER Addiction Treatment
For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do more to address addiction.
So…
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid?
After Russell Jordan sent a stool sample through the mail to the microbiome company Viome, his idea of what he should eat shifted. The gym owner in Sacramento, California, had always consumed large quantities of leafy greens. But…
Nigeria Says ‘Safe to Assume’ Boko Haram Leader Is Dead | Voice of America
Nigeria’s government no longer has any doubts that Abubakar Shekau, the notorious leader of the Boko Haram terror group, is dead.
Reports of Shekau’s death first emerged three months ago, with word he had been killed during a confrontation…
‘An Arm and a Leg’: Meet the Mississippi Lawyer Who Helped Start the Fight for Charity Care
Dan Weissmann
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Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, famous for taking on Big Tobacco in the ’90s and winning, worked on a series of ill-fated national lawsuits against nonprofit…
Mission and Money Clash in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Venture Capital Ambitions
Cone Health, a small not-for-profit health care network in North Carolina, spent several years developing a smartphone-based system called Wellsmith to help people manage their diabetes. But after investing $12 million, the…
Headed Away to School? Here’s What Students With Health Issues Need to Know
College is a time of transition, but for those managing chronic medical conditions, it may also be the first time they will be wholly responsible for their own health: setting appointments, securing supplies and pharmaceuticals,…
¿Escuela o “ruleta rusa”? Entre delta y no exigir máscaras, algunos padres no ven ninguna diferencia
El niño acababa de empezar el jardín de infantes. O, como lo llamaba su madre, “la ruleta rusa”. Eso se debe a que su distrito escolar en Grand Junction, Colorado, experimentó uno de los primeros brotes de la variante delta en la…
Readers and Tweeters Ponder Vaccines and Points of Fairness
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Higher Insurance Rates for the Unvaccinated? Snuff Out That Idea
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