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Social Media Provides a Lifeline After Irma

ATLANTA — Worried relatives, generous volunteers, frantic neighbors, even medical providers are turning to social media now that Hurricane Irma wiped out electricity and cell service to communities across Florida, cutting off most contact with remote islands in the Keys. “We all sort of scattered around the country when we evacuated, so we’re trying to […]

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Texans Report Illnesses from Harvey Pollution

GALENA PARK, Texas — Cindy Sanchez began to feel ill while barbecuing just before Harvey’s torrents started pelting this city just east of Houston, along a corridor with the nation’s highest concentration of petrochemical plants. “I started getting really, really bad headaches,” said Sanchez, a 32-year-old housewife. “I never get headaches.” “My husband’s eyes were […]

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First Responders to Harvey Sue Over Chemical Fire

HOUSTON—Seven sheriff’s deputies and medical emergency responders who say they were sickened by a chemical fire at a plant outside Houston that flooded during Harvey sued the owner Thursday for gross negligence, seeking $1 million in damages. A state judge granted a temporary restraining order to prevent plant owner Arkema Inc. from removing evidence or […]

Study: Ending DACA Will Have Health Effects

The Trump administration’s recent decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which granted protection from deportation to unauthorized immigrants who entered the United States as minors, affects roughly 800,000 immigrants. But terminating DACA may also have perilous consequences for the children of those DREAMers, according to a new study published in […]

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Arrested Nurse Receives Apologies

SALT LAKE CITY — Officials at a Utah hospital where a nurse was arrested after refusing to allow police to draw blood from an unconscious patient apologized that security officers didn’t intervene and said Monday that they have implemented policy changes to prevent it from happening again. The announcements mark the latest fallout from nurse […]

Study: White Med Students Misinformed about Racial Differences

African-Americans are consistently under-treated for pain by doctors when compared to white patients. For the same affliction, doctors are far more likely to prescribe strong pain medication to whites than to Blacks. A new study provides a rather disturbing reason why this is the case. Apparently, white physicians believe that Black folks feel no pain […]

Catholic Hospital Support Saving DACA

Hundreds of Catholic hospitals are urging Donald Trump to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, saying it has been critical to providing the nation’s healthcare services. Members of the Catholic Health Association, which represents 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care facilities, said DACA benefits the nation’s team-based approach to medical care delivery. […]

ACA Ad Budget Slashed

Last year, CMS spent more than $100 million on advertising the Affordable Care Act exchanges (ACA). Under President Donald Trump, it will only spend $10 million, while also cutting 41 percent from outreach activities meant to boost enrollment on the exchanges. The announcement came on a phone call with reporters Thursday, with HHS officials arguing […]

Experts: Hate Crimes Are a Public Health Issue

The violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 is part of a rise in hate-related crimes, a trend that could be harming the nation’s health beyond the direct effects of the actual hate crimes. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, more than 1,800 race-related incidents occurred between Nov. […]

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The Lessons of Katrina Will Be Useful after Harvey

It will take years for Houston to rebuild from Hurricane Harvey. One essential part of that recovery will be reassembling the city’s medical capacity and infrastructure. The New York Times published a harrowing report Monday on the city’s hospitals and nursing homes that are heroically seeking to provide care and shelter for Houstonians in need, […]

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Gene Editing May Cure Sickle Cell

Approximately 100,000 people in the US have sickle-cell disease. Most sufferers are African-Americans, but there are also many Latino patients as well as people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Southeast Asian descent who have sickle-cell disease. The disease is painful, and shortens the lifespan of sufferers to about 40 to 60 years. Although its […]

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Obamacare Narrows Disparities for Blacks, Latinos

Health care disparities among blacks and Latinos compared to whites have narrowed because of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, according to a study published by the The Commonwealth Fund Thursday. The report found that the number of blacks and Latinos without health care coverage dropped during the first two years of the […]

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