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COMMUNITY VOICES: Let’s address children’s mental health
When our children are sick, we take them to the doctor; when they have a toothache, we take them to the dentist. Often, we forget to address their mental health. There are symptoms that we overlook and blame it on the child’s temper or behavior. Some common signs are hyperactivity, social isolation and poor academic […]
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Racial Disparities in Healthcare Treatment
When I heard about the death of Kim Porter, I was shocked. Porter passed away at only 43 years old. She had been a model and actress, best known for her relationship with P. Diddy. With her cause of death still unknown, I have read reports which claim Porter was suffering from pneumonia at the […]
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The new cholesterol guidelines: What you Need to Know
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety of additional professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association. Thus, the majority of […]
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Is the Language of Digital Technology Killing us and our Ability to Communicate?
I have always been a lover of language, in all of its various forms. A voracious reader since the age of three, I became fluent in a second language by the time I reached high school, was pleasantly surprised in college to discover that I spoke a third language called “Black English,” and, since then, […]
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Opinion: Free or Reduced-Cost Health Insurance for a Limited Time Only
It may be tough to get much closer to universal health coverage in New Jersey, but targeted outreach can pay off It’s open enrollment time again for Obamacare health plans, a good time to take stock of how New Jersey is doing covering the uninsured. In a previous column, I wrote that quick actions by […]
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Why I Became a Mental-Health First-Aider at my Research Institute
The Francis Crick Institute in London now has around 40 accredited mental-health first aiders. The two-day training course is run by our occupational-health nurse, covering conditions such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and psychosis. I volunteered because there weren’t yet any scientific group leaders among the first aiders. We should have them at all levels […]
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Publicly Financed Care is a Needed Baseline for Health
The Nov. 5 editorial regarding health care calls for the community to invest in the social determinants of health. The old standard of letting the free market take care of it is not working for the public good in a number of areas. The market is not providing the health care our community needs. If […]
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Op-Ed: Healthcare is Justice for Underserved Communities
In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” Addressing the Medical Committee for Human Rights, he understood that the failure to adequately prevent and treat diseases in minority communities perpetuates the racism and inequity that he rallied against his whole […]
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Putting Patients First: Improving Health Outcomes for Hispanic Americans
As part of CMS’ ongoing efforts to put patients first and empower them to work with their providers so that they make health care decisions that are best for them and their families, we want to recognize the importance of understanding the challenges and recognizing the diversity within our communities. We want to take this […]
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Cherokee Nation
There is a critical need for more doctors in rural Oklahoma and on tribal lands. Thankfully, there is now a unique solution that will lead the nation in innovation and scope. For the first time in U.S. history, a Native American tribe is partnering with a top-ranked medical school to create the nation’s first tribally […]
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Drug Payments
Doctors would use the provincial funding code if it remotely came close to covering the cost of the infusion. This is a common problem which gets no attention. The province doesn’t want to appropriately fund the cost of medicine and deliberately under-reimburses for a number of services. They do so with the hope that either […]
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Berkeley Health
The city of Berkeley recently completed the 2018 Health Status Report, assessing a broad range of data to better understand the social inequities of health conditions affecting our community, assess prevention efforts and identify emerging health threats. This information is crucial because if we can better understand not just the current prevalence of serious health […]
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