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For Many Disabled Patients, the Doctor Is Often Not In

WEBThe work, which analyzed focus group discussions with 22 physicians, adds context to a larger study published February 2021, also in Health Affairs, that showed …

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Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical …

WEBWomen and racial and ethnic minorities are 20 to 30 percent more likely than White men to experience a misdiagnosis, said David Newman-Toker, a professor of …

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Experts Race to Set Rules For Deciding Who Lives and …

WEB03.29.2020. With the fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 virus overwhelming hospitals and leaving crucial life-saving equipment in short supply, doctors and other health care providers in …

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Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health …

WEBOver the past 30 years, EBM has transformed the practice of medicine worldwide. Whether it can transform the practice of public health — which focuses not …

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In Two States, Transforming the Model for Palliative Care

WEBPalliative care is poised to be a game changer for public health. Nearly 50 percent of states now include palliative care services for eligible Medicaid recipients, …

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When Will America Get Better Sunscreens

WEBEvery hour, at least two people die of skin cancer in the United States. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in America, and 6.1 million adults are treated each …

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Interview: Uncertainty, Science, and Public Health …

WEBThe results, published earlier this year in the journal Public Understanding of Science, were pretty straightforward: “Communicating uncertainty buffers against a loss …

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Low-frequency Noise Is Pervasive. Does That Matter

WEBIts findings suggested that low frequency noise “may have possible mutagenic effects and cause massive cell death.”. Meanwhile, a 2014 study involving …

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Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a …

WEBBerridge retired from the agency in the spring of 2023, upset by the handling of the fluoride report. “That’s not the way I want to do science,” he said. “So I decided to …

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The Uncertain Science of Meditation

WEBWith more use has come more study. In the last three decades, the NIH has funded more than 1,700 studies on meditation, at a cost of $570 million. And that …

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The Uncharted World of Emerging Pathogens

WEBToday Covid-19 has killed nearly 80,000 New Yorkers, almost 1.2 million Americans, and nearly 7 million people worldwide. The pandemic catalyzed a push for …

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Why Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked

WEBBy Arjun V.K. Sharma. 01.11.2024. In the 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get them to lose weight, quit smoking, and abstain from alcohol. …

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Youth Transgender Care Policies Should Be Driven by Science

WEBA critique in The Economist assessed apparent political motivations underlying the presumed consensus among U.S. health care providers, including …

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How U.S. Hospitals Undercut Public Health

WEB10.05.2023. Health care in the United States — the largest industry in the world’s largest economy — is notoriously cost inefficient, consuming substantially more money per …

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Power Outages Are Increasing. Can Medical Equipment Users Adapt

WEBSlightly more than two-thirds of Texans lost power at some point from Feb. 14 to 20 — outages that averaged a total of 42 hours, according to a University of …

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In Millions of Homes, High Fluoride in Tap Water May Be a Concern

WEBLost in that debate are the roughly 3 million Americans whose water naturally contains higher concentrations of fluoride — often at levels that even some fluoridation …

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Stress in Utero: Covid Chaos and Babies’ Future Health

WEBFor more than 30 years, researchers have observed a link between a pregnant person’s external environment and the health of the developing fetus. …

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To Boost Black Men in Medicine, Advocates Turn to Sports

WEBLikewise, a 2011 study found that having an elite skill, such as high-achieving athletics, was more predictive of completing a general surgery residency than …

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In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin

WEBE arly in the pandemic, Ecuador weathered shortages in everything: face masks, personal protective equipment, medications, and even health care workers. By …

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Amid Regulatory Gaps, Telehealth Prescribers Flourish

WEBFor telehealth, everything changed with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the U.S., telehealth use skyrocketed with lockdowns in the spring of 2020 and then …

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Clinton Parks Author at Undark Magazine

WEBCorruption in science? Academic discrimination? Research censorship? Government cover-ups? Undark wants to hear about it. Email us at [email protected] or visit our contact …

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Wood-burning Stoves Raise New Health Concerns

WEBBut woodsmoke also contains carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, carcinogenic compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, and volatile …

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