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An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.
No one expects American doctors to remove an appendix for free. But it’s remarkable how quickly even the most shocking bills shrink once you start querying them, writes Arwa Mahdawi
For decades, smaller “safety net” hospitals like Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have been losing money and are under pressure to close. But the pandemic has shown just how needed they are.
In the next installment of 'America's Future Starts Now,' CNN Opinion asked health care and policy experts about their proposed solutions to refine our health care system so that it best serves all Americans.
The guidance comes as Americans are coping with illness, isolation and loss from the pandemic, as well as other stressors like inflation and rising crime.
Many in power would prefer to kick questions like “What caused the mental health crisis?” and “Who benefits?” out of sight. Don’t let them.
Americans need to think about the choices contributing to student debt.
While the concentrations are low, the chemicals are potentially dangerous and some are linked to cancer risk, the researchers found.
As psychiatrists, we have a message for Gov. Abbott and Mayor McLaughlin: We wish more than anything that mental health professionals could solve this problem. But sadly, we’re just not that powerful. We’re clinicians, not clairvoyants. We’re trained to listen, to diagnose complex disorders and even to assess risk of imminent harm to self or others. But despite our training, we cannot predict a person’s future actions.
Once again, a dysfunctional health care system has hindered our pandemic response.
Plummeting Covid-19 case counts across the United States are leading to lifted mask mandates and more conversations about steps toward normalcy -- but more people are dying of the coronavirus now than during most points of the pandemic.
Doctor Morgan Eutermoser is confronted every day with overflowing waiting rooms, and like many American doctors, she is finding Omicron the most challenging wave of the pandemic yet.
Patients at Kent Hospital are waiting 10 hours for care as staff shortages, covid cases and other emergencies overwhelm the emergency room. "Do all of of the preventative things that you can do to possibly keep yourself out of the hospital right now," the ER's director said.
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Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.
Readers share insights from the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
Decades after the ADA passed, medical care still isn’t accessible.
All of this will happen again.
Has the term become so expansive as to be meaningless?
There is no technological miracle that will fix decades of bad policy.
Why we’re seeing so little progress not just on vaccines, but even on sunscreen.
I am not taking care of a single patient with the coronavirus. But is that as good as it gets?
The U.S. clearly failed to heed expert advice, but there’s plenty of blame to go around.
Since February 2020, half a million healthcare workers in the US have left the job. That’s the steepest rate of attrition the industry has ever seen.
Scientific research alone cannot address the challenges that Americans with mental illness face.
Nurses would like to set the record straight on the hospital staffing crisis.
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