Why Is Sleep Important
Getting enough sleep is arguably the most important thing that you can do to improve your physical and mental health. ...
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Kidney Experts Say It’s Time to Remove Race From Medical Algorithms. Doing So Is Complicated.
“And that comes in my mind, on my weak days: ‘Are you going to pass away just like they did?’”...
Covid Was a Tipping Point for Telehealth. If Some Have Their Way, Virtual Visits Are Here to Stay.
The broad effort reaches across the nation’s diverse health care system, bringing together consumer groups with health insurers, state Medicaid...
In Missouri and Other States, Flawed Data Makes It Hard to Track Vaccine Equity
But it’s been left up to states to decide how to do that and to collect racial and ethnic data...
Newsom Wants to Spend Millions on the Health of Low-Income Mothers and Their Babies
Amid a pandemic that has pushed millions of mothers out of the workplace, caused fertility rates to plunge and heightened...
Doctors Tell How to Make the Most of Your Telehealth Visits
Now, he finds, there are good reasons to keep these options open even as in-office visits have resumed and many...
Health care workers sue Houston Methodist over vaccine requirement
A group of 117 health care workers is suing Houston Methodist Hospital for its policy requiring its employees to receive...
Amid a pandemic with unequal impact, a proposal for a new Office of Health Equity died in the Texas Senate
When the state’s Office of Minority Health Statistics and Engagement was defunded in 2017, no one could have predicted a...
Pandemic Boosts Care for Serious Illnesses at Home
Late last year, Janet Yetenekian was one of the thousands of people in Southern California whose case of covid-19 was...
Stark Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccinations, State-Level CDC Data Shows
Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and...
