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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US

An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said

Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help

(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell

How digital platforms and policy shifts reshape GLP-1 affordability

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Adding depression, anxiety measures to CVD prediction model has little impact

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Depression and Age-Related Macular Degeneration

By Margret Krakauer, as told to Keri WigintonMy introduction to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was a day of hell. I’m 79 now, but I had cataract surgery when I was 70. About 4 days after the procedure, I had what’s called a central retinal occlusion, which is like an eye stroke. They also found macular fluid

Anxiety, Depression Climbing Among People with IBD

March 24, 2023 – Joshua Denton was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when he was a junior in college. He not only faced anxiety around a new health diagnosis, but how it could change the rest of his life. His initial anxiety was from having “something that's technically considered incurable.” Next came the challenges of living with inflammatory bowel

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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US

An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said

Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help

(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell

How digital platforms and policy shifts reshape GLP-1 affordability

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Baffling. Frustrating. Frightening. What It’s Like To Be Sued Over Medical Debt.

When Christine Wood received a $12,000 bill from Bristol Hospital, she thought it must be a mistake. It was more than she and her husband made in a month combined. “I’m freaking out,” said Wood, who lives in a 1,700-square-foot home in Terryville, a village just outside Bristol, Connecticut. “I don’t understand it.” Wood, 52

Former Angels Top Prospect Jordyn Adams, 26, Commits To SMU Football

The 2018 wide receiver recruiting class was spearheaded by top prospects Amon-Ra St. Brown and Ja’Marr Chase. Both elite talents lived up to the immense hype and have since become All-Pro receivers in the NFL. Lost in that group was the player who sat between Brown and Chase in the rankings — a once highly-touted