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Medical Equipment Costs Strain Cancer Survivors’ Finances

Physician's Weekly

prevalence of equipment use in 2018 was much lower than previously reported rates of mobility disability (27.9%) among cancer survivors, indicating issues with access,” they add. Almost half of hospital case managers have reported difficulties obtaining equipment for Medicare beneficiaries, the researchers noted. Of these, 10.2

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. 8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. Scholars such as Wen et al.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize.