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Got Long Covid? Medical Expertise Is Vital, and Seniors Should Prepare to Go Slow
Older adults who have survived covid-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, muscle aches, heart palpitations,…
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Agotados por covid y por trabajar 80 horas a la semana, médicos residentes deciden sindicalizarse
En las primeras semanas de la pandemia, el doctor Lorenzo González, entonces residente de segundo año de medicina familiar en el Centro Médico Harbor-UCLA, trabajaba hasta 80…
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‘An Arm and a Leg’: Private Equity Is Everywhere in Health Care. Really.
Dan Weissmann
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Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs
Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist.
Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel…
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Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize
In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, ran on fumes, working as many as 80…
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A(nother) Very Sad Week
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California Schools Try to Outrace Covid Outbreaks
Mark Kreidler
A fourth-grade camping trip led to one outbreak, a high school prom to another. But even with covid cases rising as schools head into the final stretch of the academic…
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Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6…
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Police Suspect Arson at Wyoming Site of Clinic That Would Provide Abortions
Police suspect arson was behind a fire that damaged a clinic under construction in Casper that would become Wyoming’s sole site for procedural abortions.
A caller phoned…
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The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations
Aaron Bolton
BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet…
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