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False information targeting the Latino community is surging. Much of it is designed to galvanize voters or discourage pregnant women from seeking care.
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Florida doctors sign letter urging health care companies to stop donating to anti-abortion lawmakersThe letter, sent to companies including United Healthcare, Florida Hospital Association and Florida Blue, says companies need to make a choice between a responsibility to patients and politicians who have "put reproductive healthcare at risk."
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MRIs done early for uncomplicated low back pain and routine vitamin D tests "just to be thorough" are considered "low-value care" and can lead to further testing that can cost patients thousands.
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The Legislature will not overturn what critics deride as the state's "free kill" law, which generally prevents families from filing medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors or hospitals when the victims are adults.
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The new mandate compels health care workers, including doctors and pharmacists, to be fully vaccinated by December. Teachers and other education workers must be fully vaccinated by January.
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Cuba started vaccinating children under 12. A South Florida doctor refuses unvaccinated patients. Plus, Miami International Airport is using dogs to prevent the spread of COVID.
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Like much of the United States, South Florida is facing a shortage of doctors who will retire in the coming years. Some are facing burnout from grueling COVID-19 work, and there’s especially a need for more Black doctors.
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Montana is one of only four states without a medical school, and two groups with different financial models hope to remedy that. One plans a for-profit school, but critics say students may suffer.
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Black vaccine hesitancy goes back to history of distrust of medicine, say doctors and researchers. To help, it's important to empower people with knowledge to make their own choices.
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Jackson Health Care System union officials and healthcare professionals will host a press conference today demanding that Governor Ron DeSantis issue a…
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Richard Bright says he was removed from his post because of his "insistence" that the government spend funds on "safe and scientifically vetted solutions" to address the coronavirus.
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Tulane University medical students visited a former plantation last week to take a photo that's going viral. "We were embodying the strength of the people who lived on those grounds," a student says.