In 1981, the small comprehended human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began spreading in widening pockets across the globe, specifically amongst homosexual men and intravenous drug people. Ultimately, much more than 36 million folks have been killed by the obtained immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), ensuing from HIV. The AIDS epidemic raged for extra […]
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Support Group Connects Women Diagnosed With Heart Disease
For lots of gals, a heart illness diagnosis or recent cardiac event may well depart them feeling alone and frightened, but talking with somebody with a very similar working experience who can provide assistance and empathy can make all the variation. To develop that possibility, Hartford HealthCare’s Heart & Vascular […]
First Edition: May 27, 2022
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Note to readers: KHN’s First Edition will not be published Monday, May 30, in honor of Memorial Day. Look for it again in your inbox on Tuesday. KHN: Burned Out By Covid And 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize In the early […]
NC Senate Republicans float Medicaid expansion bill
By Rose Hoban and Rachel Crumpler It finally happened. In a move that many health care advocates have been pushing for years, the state Senate introduced a bill on Wednesday that would expand the state’s Medicaid program to some half million-plus low-income North Carolinians. Until this point, Medicaid has been […]
Woman sues NC prisons: Mistreatment while pregnant
By Elizabeth Thompson It’s been two and a half years since Tracey Edwards went through a pregnancy, labor and birth while incarcerated at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. The suffering she experienced during her birth process still keeps her up at night. That experience is behind the lawsuit […]
NC public health workers draw road map for future
By Rose Hoban When hundreds of North Carolina public health leaders met in a Raleigh hotel recently for an annual conference, they could not help but look back at this most extraordinary time in health care and incorporate lessons learned from the pandemic as they planned for the future. One […]