Once Acadia gets patients in the door, it often tries to hold them until their insurance runs out. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/b...
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
Hate to disturb the love-in that follows any Oprah speech but a reminder: RFK Jr. is rightfully mocked for his antivax BS pushing but Oprah was a trailblazer in platforming antivax & other health bunk that gave rise to problems we see now & dodged responsibility. E.g., this still on her site. 🛟🩺😷
Actress Jenny McCarthy continues her fight for autism awareness and safer options for parents. Plus, her partner, Jim Carrey, discusses love and family.
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A new mpox outbreakis concentrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/h...
The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.
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Health Officials Urge Doctors to Address I.U.D. Insertion Pain (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/h...
As videos describing the procedure as agonizing spread on social media, new guidelines advise physicians to consider various anesthetics.
'when Democratic men speak of women as their partners, friends, colleagues, and bosses, when they make it clear that people need Pap smears and tampons and abortion care, when they show themselves willing to work for a woman to become president, they sound, well, normal.' nymag.com/intelligence...
An election defined by two very different kinds of guys.
Gabby Thomas, who just won the 200m at the Olympics, is not only a gold medalist, but she is a champion for health equity! Gabby Thomas: 🏅 Studied neurobiology at Harvard 🏅 Got her Master's degree in Epidemiology 🏅 Volunteers at a clinic for uninsured people in Texas 👏👏👏
Never understand why people make lives harder for people who already have hard lives. Homelessness is a solvable public health problem. Taking away the encampment is not a solution; it's just punishment.
A new report in Nature Medicine summarizes the knowledge about & effects of long Covid across the globe four years after it first emerged. About 6 percent of adults globally have had long Covid. #episkywww.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/h...
The condition has put significant strain on patients and society — at a global economic cost of about $1 trillion a year, a new report estimates.