healthcare
It wasn't long before Jennifer Williams noticed there was something unusual about the two young girls she was fostering. Three-year-old Arya Hernandez was bright, outgoing, and without any of the behavioral issues Williams had become accustomed to over more than a decade as a foster parent in Georgia. But 4-month-old Emma seemed sickly. The baby's soft spot was too big for her age and in the wrong part of her head, and the whites of her eyes were discolored. She was also bowlegged and held her limbs in an unusual, awkward way. Williams was only taking care of the girls for the weekend while th...
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The social welfare state of the Netherlands spends more on care for the elderly than any other industrialised country. In 2021, 4.1% of its gross domestic product was on long-term care. Around 1.4 million people work in various capacities in the care industry. Despite this, there remains a shortage of tens of thousands of nurses, and in the upcoming years, the staffing shortfall is anticipated to reach 135,000. As the number of elderly people grows, social solutions to elderly welfare are being created. See the report in the player above.
Euronews (English)
The medical tourism market has grown significantly, with patients worldwide choosing to travel outside of their country for medical care, both necessary and elective. In the US, the government estimates that more than 150,000 Americans each year travel abroad seeking healthcare. One emerging segment within this sector is older patients who elect to get their care overseas. This trend toward medical tourism among retirees exists at least partly because they want access to affordable, quality healthcare services since costs continue to rise. This article examines the opportunities and risks of m...
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French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi could potentially invest somewhere between €1.3 billion and €1.5 billion in its Frankfurt manufacturing site making the insulin brand, Lantus, according to German newspaper Handelsblatt and Reuters. Sanofi had revealed that it was originally thinking about moving its Lantus manufacturing operations to France, but has opted to upgrade its German site instead. Although Sanofi has not provided much information on this investment, it would be a boost for a Germany economy, which has been struggling for several months with high interest rates, a soaring cost of li...
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Thirty years ago, the sociologist Craig Reinarman observed.pdf) that there's something "woven into the very fabric of American culture" that makes us susceptible to believing that a "chemical boogeyman" is to blame for "society's ills." He added that every moral panic about drugs since the 19th century has been fueled by "media magnification" in which the danger of a particular substance is dramatized and distorted. Now that recreational marijuana is legal in about half of U.S. states, and more Americans are consuming weed than ever before, the chemical bogeyman is back, and he's armed with a ...
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Greene County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney Brianna Vanata has dropped involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges against former 911 dispatcher Leon Price, who is accused of refusing to send help to a dying woman. The charges were filed by Vanata's predecessor as district attorney. Kelly Titchenell called 911 to report that her mother was unresponsive and turning yellow. Price at first agreed to send an ambulance, but then he repeatedly told Titchenell he needed her mother's consent, even though she could not speak. He never sent an ambulance, and Titchenell's mother died th...
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Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and the legal standards that had governed American abortions for decades. A lot can be said about the impacts of this decision, from direct changes to state abortion laws to its effect on politics, failure to actually reduce the number of abortions, or opening up new avenues in the drug war. But today I want to focus on one change that is on some level obvious but often goes unremarked upon: the way Dobbs shifted the focus of the abortion debate back to ...
Reason
One of my favorite memes on X this week showed two photographs—one of war and devastation and the other of a neat tree-lined street with middle-class suburban houses. The caption under the first picture: "This is the reality of life on Earth." The caption on the second one: "This is an anomaly and can end at any time." It's a great reminder of how good most of have it, especially within the context of millennia of human existence. It's also a reminder that many of our fears and fixations—especially those commonly expressed on social media and in legislatures—fall into what my daughter calls fi...
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For more than a decade, patients who've needed certain controlled medications have suffered from ill-advised, untenable policies the U.S. government has instituted, allegedly to mitigate the ever-surging numbers of drug overdose deaths. These policies have been a dismal failure on multiple fronts: Not only have deaths continued to surge, but the terrifying intrusion of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) into the practice of medicine has had a chilling effect on patients and their physicians. As the DEA relentlessly tightens production quotas on medications for pain and ADHD, it has begu...
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A trio of Democratic senators are introducing a "Right to IVF Act" that would, among other things, force private health insurance plans to cover assisted reproduction treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg freezing, and gestational surrogacy. The measure provides no exception or accommodations for religious objections, all but ensuring massive legal battles over the mandate should it pass. The "sweeping legislative package" (as the senators describe it) combines several existing pieces of legislation, including the Access to Family Building Act and the Family Building Federal Emp...
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