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Más adolescentes adictos a cigarrillos electrónicos con altas dosis de nicotina
Cuando la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA) hizo valer por primera vez su autoridad para regular los cigarrillos electrónicos en 2016, muchos asumieron que eliminaría rápidamente los vaporizadores con los sabores…
Will the Doctor See You Now? The Health System’s Changing Landscape
Lucia Agajanian, a 25-year-old freelance film producer in Chicago, doesn’t have a specific primary care doctor, preferring the convenience of visiting a local clinic for flu shots or going online for video visits. “You say what…
Misinformation Obscures Standards Guiding Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth
Almost three weeks after Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a bill making it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors, a judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing…
New Charleston Museum Nods to Historical Roots of US Health Disparities
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Maude Callen, a Black nurse-midwife, delivered more than 800 infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry starting in the 1920s, when segregation made it difficult for Black people to get medical care.…
The DEA Relaxed Online Prescribing Rules During Covid. Now It Wants to Rein Them In.
Federal regulators want most patients to see a health care provider in person before receiving prescriptions for potentially addictive medicines through telehealth — something that hasn’t been required in more than three years.…
The Hospital Bills Didn’t Find Her, but a Lawsuit Did — Plus Interest
Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016.
She knew it was triggered by food, so she said she tried taking an antacid. That helped a little, but, eventually, she avoided eating altogether. She…
‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts
SUFFOLK, Va. — When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolicited advice at the hospital: Share your story on the local news, a nurse told her. Viewers would surely send money.…
E-Cigs Are Still Flooding the US, Addicting Teens With Higher Nicotine Doses
When the FDA first asserted the authority to regulate e-cigarettes in 2016, many people assumed the agency would quickly get rid of vapes with flavors like cotton candy, gummy bears, and Froot Loops that appeal to kids.…
Familias huyen de los estados que niegan atención de salud a las personas trans
Hal Dempsey quería “escaparse de Missouri”. Arlo Dennis está “huyendo de Florida”. La familia Tillison “no puede quedarse en Texas”.
Son parte de una nueva migración de estadounidenses que se están desarraigando debido a una…
Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon
A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear…