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5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket

The number of people who signed up for a health plan and then didn't pay their premium fell much more sharply than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.

NPR·2w ago

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The Venezuela Earthquakes Hit a Health System Already in Crisis

Firefighters are using cellphone lights because of a flashlight shortage, and an overwhelmed hospital in the disaster zone is operating without running water, one doctor said.

NY Times·2w ago

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Palestinians grieve for a father-to-be shot by Israeli troops the day his son was born

Nayef Samaro, 25, was killed in an Israeli military raid on Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, as he prepared to meet his wife at the hospital for the birth of their first child.

NPR·2w ago

HEALTH

Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DR Congo

Fears over ‘huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of deaths in DRC by SeptemberThe whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unknown, according to Africa’s top public health official.The huma

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DR Congo

Fears over ‘huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of deaths in DRC by SeptemberThe whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unknown, according to Africa’s top public health official.The huma

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DR Congo

Fears over ‘huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of deaths in DRC by SeptemberThe whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unknown, according to Africa’s top public health official.The huma

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

Investigation after up to 40 hospital staff access records of boy attacked by crocodile

Cambridge University Hospitals refers itself to the Information Commissioner over the breach.

BBC News·2w ago

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Plan Intl: ‘Mental health impact of Venezuelan quakes can last for years’

Plan International said children and young people must be at the centre of Venezuela's earthquake response.

Al Jazeera·2w ago

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France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC

French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very lowThe first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission to an area affected by the outb

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC

French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very lowThe first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission to an area affected by the outb

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC

French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very lowThe first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission to an area affected by the outb

The Guardian·2w ago

HEALTH

Diabetes patients in Gaza face survival battle amid war shortages

Insulin and equipment shortages in Gaza pose fatal risks, leading to critical health complications.

Al Jazeera·2w ago