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The best dataset on American health care will be harder to access

WEBP rachi Sanghavi, a health-policy researcher at the University of Chicago, studies whether ambulances that provide medical care at the site of the emergency are …

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Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient

WEBThere is. And it is offered, in part, by the sheer size of the problem. America spent $4.5 trillion on health care in 2022. That was considerably more than would be …

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The future of health care

WEBHost Tom Standage travels to the year 2042 to find large-scale monitoring of people’s health as part of a shift from treatment to prevention⁠—and a debate about …

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Economist Impact

WEBMany countries are working to address the barriers to good health, yet they often face an absence of data to guide policy. The Health Inclusivity Index seeks to address this by …

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Global Access to Healthcare

WEBAs a result, the ability of populations to access the healthcare they need is increasingly under the spotlight. In 2016 The Economist Intelligence Unit developed the …

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Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers

WEBPrevious attempts to find causal mechanisms for mental-health conditions have run into difficulty. In 2013 the National Institute of Mental Health, an American …

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Covid-19 has led to a sharp increase in depression and anxiety

WEBA new study published in the Lancet, a medical journal, attempts to quantify the impact of covid-19 on mental health and wellbeing around the world. The authors …

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Medical AIs with human faces are on their way

WEBAda Health, a German firm, offers a text-based symptom-checking chatbot that navigates a carefully structured database containing thousands of pieces of medical …

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How health-care costs stopped rising

WEBBetween the late 1970s and the mid-2010s British public spending on health rose by 4% a year in real terms, much faster than the economy’s growth of 2% a year. …

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Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge …

WEBThat epidemic was an avoidable tragedy. A slow international response, especially by the World Health Organisation (WHO, the UN’s Geneva-based public …

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How to stop over-medicalising mental health

WEBOne study of mindfulness courses in 84 British schools found that normal teaching was just as good for mental health. But the great harm from overdiagnosis is to …

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AIs will make health care safer and better

WEBResearch and Markets, a firm of analysts, estimates that in 2023 the health-care world spent about $13bn on AI -related hardware (such as specialised processing …

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Scientists dispute a suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered

WEBIn fact, the authors say, the spacing of these sites is so unusual that it suggests the work of human hands. In other words, they are claiming that sars - c o v -2 …

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The AI doctor will see you…eventually

WEBArtificial intelligence ( AI) is generating excitement and hyperbole everywhere, but in the field of health care it has the potential to be transformational. In …

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A clear-eyed look at the neuroscience of mental health

WEBThe Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health. By Camilla Nord. Princeton University Press; 304 pages; $29.95. Allen Lane; £25. I n some areas of …

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Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system

WEBO N OCTOBER 4TH more than 75,000 employees of Kaiser Permanente, a large health-care chain, began a three-day strike. The walkout was the biggest in the …

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Why doctors in America earn so much

WEBThe profession is lavishly paid: $350,000 is the average salary according to a recent paper by Joshua Gottlieb, an economist at the University of Chicago, and …

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Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care

WEBColleagues agree that talking to a 14-year-old about fertility preservation brings reactions such as: “Ew, kids, babies, gross”, or “I’m going to adopt.”. One clinician …

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Dengue fever is surging in Latin America

WEBBrasilía is a hotspot, but dengue is spiking across Brazil and Latin America. In 2023 the region hosted 80% of the world’s confirmed dengue cases, according to the …

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As the planet warms, watch out for dengue fever

WEBThe terrible fever and its after-effects are dengue’s greatest burdens. Cases have risen much faster than deaths. Latin America, the worst-afflicted region, had an …

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After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception

WEBON JUNE 24TH 2022 America’s Supreme Court ruled, in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, to let states set their own laws on abortion. Since then …

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What is screen time doing to children

WEBSecond, most agree that in much of the rich world there has been a decline in mental health among the young. The share of American teenagers reporting at least …

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In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho

WEBOne objection to the Biden administration’s position seemed to gain more traction: the worry that adding a health exception via EMTALA would invite a host of …

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Letters to the editor Apr 27th 2024 Edition

WEBThere are two critical barriers to the uptake of AI in health: legal liability and the investment required to train health-care providers to use AI effectively and safely.We …

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Politics Apr 27th 2024 Edition

WEBAharon Haliva stepped down as head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate. He is the first senior official to resign over the failure to stop Hamas’s attack in October …

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Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation

WEBFor a while, leap seconds were a regular fixture. Between 1972 and 2016, there were 27. Owing to a gradual acceleration in Earth’s spin that has allowed solar …

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