Public Health
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A Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance
If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted living facility or…
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Nikki Haley (And Her Opponents) Struggle With a Vaccine Message
Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley portrays herself as a voice of reason in the Republican Party. “Let’s find consensus,”…
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Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400
Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in…
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Lost in the Mix of Medicaid ‘Unwinding’: Kentucky Cut Off Her Health Care Over a Clerical Error
Rachana Pradhan The day her Medicaid coverage ended, Beverly Likens was in the hospital after a scary trip to the…
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Evolving Overdose Crisis Shakes Previously Effective Treatments
BURLINGTON, Vt. — “You can’t inject a horse tranquilizer and think nothing bad is gonna happen” to you, said Ty…
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Free at home Covid tests available starting Monday
COVID-19 home test kits are pictured in a store window during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough…
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Biden Administration Nibbles at the Maternal Health Crisis
Choosing where to give birth typically comes down to what hospital is most convenient to your home, where your obstetrician…
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What to Know About Assisted Living
Are you confused about what an assisted living facility is, and how it differs from a nursing home? And what…
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A hotter world makes it harder to stop the spread of superbugs
A microbiologist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology prepares a bacterial colony of the strain Streptococcus pyogenes on a blood agar…
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US Military Says National Security Depends on ‘Forever Chemicals’
Patricia Kime The Department of Defense relies on hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons and products such as uniforms, batteries,…
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