The Game, 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It (Official Music Video) Before Kendrick Lamar, The Game was Comtpon’s prodigal son in the 21st Century. His first two albums, The Documentary and Doctor’s Advocate stamped The Game as one of the most consistent rappers in the genre for the past decade and a half. […]
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The Game, 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It (Official Music Video) Before Kendrick Lamar, The Game was Comtpon’s prodigal son in the 21st Century. His first two albums, The Documentary and Doctor’s Advocate stamped The Game as one of the most consistent rappers in the genre for the past decade and a half. […]
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More than 150 trainee doctors went on strike Monday morning at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, the first physician strike at a hospital in New York City in more than 30 years. Chief among their grievances is the fact that they are generally paid less working at a public hospital in Queens, where they care […]
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An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration this month unanimously recommended that a contraceptive pill, Opill, be made available over the counter. The F.D.A. will decide this summer whether to follow this recommendation — if it does, the United States will join over 100 other countries that have already approved oral contraceptives for […]
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When war broke out unexpectedly in the streets of Khartoum, Dr. Hiba Omer, a senior surgeon, could have fled like so many others. Instead, she stayed behind to keep a hospital open. Her city was in its hour of greatest need. If she left, who would perform the C-sections and treat all those bullet wounds? […]
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It’s no surprise that the shortage of primary care doctors — who are critically important to the health of Americans — is getting worse. They practice in one of medicine’s lowest paid, least glamorous fields. Most are overworked, seeing as many as 30 people a day; figuring out when a sore throat is a strep […]
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In my work as a psychologist for people dealing with the aftermath of significant injuries, I am often presented with the question of whether low mood in my patients is best understood as a normal reaction to a serious health event — it’s reasonable, for instance, to respond to news that you may never walk […]
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The Sudan doctors’ union issues a notice on Facebook several times a day listing the few hospitals still operating in Khartoum, or an urgent alert for doctors to report to the field hospitals set up in homes across the city. Away from hospitals, medical staff must use their wits and whatever tools they can find […]
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Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Produced by Olivia Natt and Rhiannon Corby Edited by Stephanie Joyce and Kaari Pitkin Engineered by Efim Shapiro Original music by Isaac Jones, Sonia Herrero, Pat McCusker and Carole Sabouraud Listen to and follow ‘First Person’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music When Roe fell last year, Tennessee became the state […]
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CHESTER, England — When Waheed Arian was 5, his father knelt by his side and handed him a big, colorful kite. That small moment, in Afghanistan, seared itself into the son’s memory. “I was a child born into war, “ said Dr. Arian, now 39 and a medical doctor. “I had no idea what normality […]
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As soon as I woke up from the dream about two helicopters crashing onto a highway, I called my doctor’s office and asked for a mammogram. Nine months earlier, a nurse practitioner had felt the lump with her gentle, cool hands and told me: “I’m not worried. You’re young. It’s most likely a cyst.” “If […]
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The global primary care work force also provides critical capacity to detect future public health threats and deliver a response. When people have a weird rash, a nasty cough or a bad fever, it’s a local doctor or nurse whom they most depend on to recognize that it could be mpox (as monkeypox is now […]
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A federal ballot measure like this has never been held in our country. A referendum would ask Americans to focus on the proposal rather than on a candidate or political party. There’s reason to believe that a direct vote could help us solve our health care quagmire. In a recent survey, about two out of […]
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Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient’s mammogram. Two radiologists had previously said the X-ray did not show any signs that the patient had breast cancer. But Dr. Ambrózay was looking closely […]
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Diana Sanchez, a professor of psychology and department chair at Rutgers University, has found in her research over the years that men who have more traditional beliefs about masculinity are less likely to use preventive care or seek medical treatment for injuries and infections — because they tie this resistance to bravery and self-sufficiency. As those […]
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in its secret overseas prisons after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been revealed in government leaks, testimony and a damning Senate investigation. But an expert’s testimony this week in pretrial hearings at Guantánamo Bay offered […]
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For the first time since the fight over abortion access was kicked to the states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, newly elected legislatures around the country are coming into session and are putting the polarizing issue at the top of their agendas. Around 300 bills in 40 states have been proposed so […]
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“Clinicians do not — and would never be expected to — implement all of the suggested screenings, counseling services, and preventive medications in a single patient visit,” Dr. Mangione wrote in an email. “When caring for patients, clinicians use both their judgment and the information obtained during conversations with each patient to prioritize which preventive […]
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ANTAKYA, Turkey — An ambulance pulled up to the cluster of red tents that now serves as the main hospital in the ruined city of Antakya, on Friday morning. It was bringing in a woman pulled from the wreck of her home after nearly 100 hours under the rubble. Though one of her legs was […]
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Menopause, for many women, is an unknown — a confusing tunnel to pass through, with limited signage for what to expect. But one effective treatment has been overlooked for decades, signaling that women’s suffering is widely regarded as unimportant, according to the cover story in today’s New York Times Magazine. I spoke with Susan Dominus, […]
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Although deaths from Covid have slowed, the disillusionment among health workers has only increased. Recent exposés have further laid bare the structural perversity of our institutions. For instance, according to an investigation in The New York Times, ostensibly nonprofit charity hospitals have illegally saddled poor patients with debt for receiving care to which they were […]
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Dr. Hwang said that physicians often try other therapies to help control blood sugar in patients with diabetes, like metformin or insulin. But starting and stopping drugs can be disorienting for patients and doctors as they cobble together a plan, she said. Cravings come back Semaglutide mimics a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, which we produce […]
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“My main suggestion goes more to the structure of the time spent with the doctor: During the initial consultation, allow patients to keep their clothes on. When you stop and really think about it, the one-person-naked and one-person-fully-dressed scenario creates such a power imbalance as to be ridiculous.” — Pam Weinstein, Detroit, Mich. “I’d advise […]
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