Health
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Newyork
‘There Are Layers of Mistrust and Fear’
The editorial board and our colleagues in Times Opinion met on Monday with Dr. Mandy Cohen, who became the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year. Dr. Cohen was the top public health official in North Carolina during ...
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News
Senators Slam UnitedHealth’s C.E.O. Over Cyberattack
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
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Walmart Is Shutting Health Centers After Plan to Expand
The 51 locations, next to Supercenters, proved too costly to be profitable, the retailer said.
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Daniel Ek’s Next Act: Full-Body Scans for the People
In conversations with colleagues, fellow entrepreneurs and even musicians over the past decade, Daniel Ek would often abruptly shift the subject to something that really bugged him: health care. “I was like adamant to fix it,” Mr. Ek, the Spotify ...
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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid
The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference between keeping and losing their children. But a new analysis of health and child welfare records found that a ...
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Newyork
We Must Address New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
In September 1958, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. He had been autographing copies of his first book in Blumstein’s department store in Harlem. The woman who stabbed him was named Izola Ware ...
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England Limits Youth Gender Medications, Part of Big Shift in Europe
Five European countries have recently restricted hormone treatments for adolescents with gender distress. They have not banned the care, unlike many U.S. states.
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Large Scientific Review Confirms the Benefits of Physical Touch
Premature babies especially benefited from skin-to-skin contact, and women tended to respond more strongly than men did.
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Newyork
Regulating Opioid Prescriptions
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
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4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.