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Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons

The simmering fears over bird flu should leave no doubt: The health of humans and our fellow animals is inextricably linked. Covid-19 was likely...

08.05.2024 60

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Canceling people’s medical debt may be too little, too late

Four in 10 Americans carry some kind of medical debt, an affliction that is unique to the United States among wealthy nations. The country does not...

02.05.2024 50

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Why are so many young people getting cancer?

08.04.2024 70

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Can Ozempic be a breakthrough drug and overpriced at the same time?

Last month, Medicare announced that it will cover the new class of anti-obesity drugs, including Wegovy and Ozempic, for patients at risk of stroke or...

03.04.2024 7

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Lead pollution anywhere is a public health threat everywhere

Lead keeps showing up where it’s not supposed to be. In 2024, one of the most potent neurotoxins known to humanity persists all over the world as a...

01.04.2024 10

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Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis is part of a frightening global trend

Kate Middleton, now Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced Friday in a video message that she was diagnosed with cancer after doctors performed...

22.03.2024 5

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How the world has radically cut child deaths, in one chart

Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United...

15.03.2024 10

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The tropical disease that’s suddenly everywhere

Dengue (pronounced DEN-gay), a mosquito-borne illness that has circulated to a limited degree for centuries, is now spreading with unprecedented speed...

14.03.2024 10

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Should Big Pharma pay poor countries for finding new diseases?

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed that, in a global health emergency, all the aspirational rhetoric about international cooperation didn’t mean much....

28.02.2024 5

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The death of the world’s best marathon runner is part of a troubling global trend

Kelvin Kiptum, who set a world-record marathon time this past October at the Chicago Marathon and was expected to contend for gold at this summer’s...

13.02.2024 50

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From Gaza to Sudan, conflict is driving a rise in hunger worldwide

Over the long term, humanity has made great progress in eradicating hunger. Famines on the scale of the 20th century’s catastrophes — the Nazi...

01.02.2024 60

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A deadly new outbreak is testing Africa’s ambitious public health efforts

In the summer of 2022, the US was confronted with the last thing it needed after two years of Covid-19: another public health emergency. For the first...

24.01.2024 8

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How Black churches could lead the way on teen mental health

16.01.2024 10

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America is retreating from global health leadership at the worst possible time

Two decades ago, the United States led the establishment of a new global public health order that began with the fight against a devastating HIV...

15.01.2024 6

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The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do

Universal health care remains an unrealized dream for the United States. But in some parts of the country, the dream has drawn closer to a reality in...

26.11.2023 8

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Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?

The Covid-19 vaccines were hailed as a miracle upon their arrival. They were delivered earlier than anyone thought possible and proved exceptionally...

17.11.2023 30

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Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them

Of all the culprits that make it harder for Americans to afford and access health care, the sheer confusion many patients experience when trying to...

03.11.2023 10

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Your health care open enrollment questions, answered

Health care open enrollment is here and we’re here to help guide you through it. During this baffling annual ritual, Americans encounter our health...

29.10.2023 10

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Why you’re stuck with your company’s health insurance plan

16.10.2023 30

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Who thought flexible spending accounts were a good idea?

16.10.2023 8

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Fixing open enrollment starts with staying mad about it

16.10.2023 10

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The subtle privatization of Medicare

If you’re signing up for Medicare benefits this open enrollment, odds are you aren’t actually enrolling in the traditional government program that...

16.10.2023 30

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Nearly 2 million kids have been kicked off Medicaid this year

In the six months since states began double-checking the eligibility of people enrolled in their Medicaid programs for the first time in three years,...

13.10.2023 20

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Why 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have gone on strike

The relationship between the workforce that treats America’s patients and the health systems that employ them is fraying, and the more than 75,000...

05.10.2023 3

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The prices hospitals post online can be wildly different than what they tell patients over the phone

When Dr. Peter Cram, the University of Texas Medical Branch’s chair of internal medicine, heard billionaire Mark Cuban bemoaning how difficult it is...

29.09.2023 7

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Another Covid-19 winter is coming. Here’s how to prepare.

The United States is in the midst of its worst Covid-19 wave since the beginning of the year and finally deploying some of its most powerful tools...

22.09.2023 5

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What happened to the family doctor?

14.09.2023 4

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Is there anything Ozempic can’t do?

What can’t Ozempic and Wegovy do? The blockbuster semaglutide drugs have seen unprecedented demand over the past year after studies found that the...

13.09.2023 10

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How America became a nation of gamblers

07.09.2023 2

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