What the US health care system assumes about you
The difficulties low-income patients have when trying to receive healthcare can be easily overlooked. Katz points out the many assumptions healthcare in the United States makes—that patients can …
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Every year in the United States, over 60,000 women suffer a severe, life-altering complication during childbirth, and 700 to 900 women die from a pregnancy related cause. Elizabeth …
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The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
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Caregiving at the epicenter of the Zika epidemic
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When it comes to heart and brain disorders, sex matters
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