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¿Se puede confiar en una mamografía para identificar el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca?
Hoy en día, cuando las personas se hacen su mamografía anual, algunos radiólogos les preguntan algo desconcertante. Además de analizar la prueba en busca de cáncer de mama dicen: ¿le gustaría que el médico examinara las…
Cómo una regla federal propuesta sobre el calor podría haber salvado la vida de trabajadores…
Amy Maxmen
En una sofocante tarde de julio de 2020, Belinda Ramones recibió una llamada informándole que su hermano estaba en el hospital. La llamada fue de una mujer de la empresa de jardinería en Florida en donde había comenzado a…
Post-Helene, Patients Who Rely on IV Nutrition Face Severe Shortages
Hurricane Helene, which struck North Carolina last month, wrecked a Baxter International factory that produced 60 percent of the country’s IV fluids, according to the American Hospital Association. The company is rationing its…
‘Dreamers’ Can Enroll in ACA Plans This Year — But a Court Challenge Could Get in the Way
When open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, starts nationwide this week, a group that had previously been barred from signing up will be eligible for the first time: The “Dreamers.” That’s the name given to…
Vance Wrongly Blames Rural Hospital Closures on Immigrants in the Country Illegally
Sam Whitehead
“We’re bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don’t have the legal right to be in our country.”
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) during a Sept. 17 rally
During a recent…
Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu
Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for seven months.
Just this…
Presidential Election Puts Affordable Care Act Back in the Bull’s-Eye
Health care is suddenly front and center in the final sprint to the presidential election, and the outcome will shape the Affordable Care Act and the coverage it gives to more than 40 million people.
Besides reproductive…
California Mental Health Agency Director To Resign Following Conflict of Interest Allegations
California’s mental health commission on Thursday announced its executive director would resign amid revelations that he traveled to the U.K. courtesy of a state vendor while he sought to prevent a budget cut that would have…
How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives
On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. The call was from a woman at the Florida landscaping business that he had joined that week, the Davey Tree Expert Co.,…
Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress.
Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam
KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients.
There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four…