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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Deaf experience many barriers when accessing health care and services. A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. ’s (2006) narrative synthesis was used to analyze and report the results.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. It’s by choice, just like in the community.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. Results of that work are expected this fall.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.