This may be surprising to many readers, but patients sometimes ask about having their colonoscopy done without any sedationl.

Ireland’s cervical cancer scandal, and its underlying logic of profit-driven, privatized health care, has ramifications far beyond the country’s shores. By Erica X Eisen.

Parents who do not get measles vaccinations for their children could be fine thousands of Euros, under new plans being drawn up in Germany. Health minister Jens Spahn has drawn up draft legislation which would also see children excluded from nursery and daycare facilities. His initiative comes amid a highly charged debate in the country about whether the measles vaccine should be obligatory.

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I was at the end of the long table in the conference room when I realized the drugs had become a problem. As I tried to focus on the presentation — some suit droning on about tax benefits and pricing tiers — I zoned out, and my face became flushed. Burning-hot rage pulsed across my skin, crackled down to my fingertips, then shot back. I wasn’t sure I could make it out of the room without doing something I’d regret.

The Trump administration is trying to convey panic that there’s an immediate crisis on the southern border, pointing to caravans of desperate people who have traveled thousands of miles. It’s true that Latin and Central Americans are coming to the US fleeing violence and poverty, much of it caused by destructive US trade policy over the course of decades. But there’s another massive “border crossing” phenomenon afoot — and Trump has not said a word about it. We’re talking about thousands of US citizens crossing the border each day in search of affordable health care.

In 2013, IBM sold the University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center on an audacious idea: that a single AI-powered platform, IBM Watson, could lend a digital hand to battle one of mankind’s most abominable diseases—cancer. In less than four years, the trailblazing moonshot fell apart. Yet even as Watson stumbled, it provided valuable insight—and a powerful peek ahead—at how machine learning technologies could one day supplement and revolutionize almost everything doctors do.

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The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess. Inside a digital revolution that took a bad turn.

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An online platform that provides a basic health plan to protect individuals in China against 100 critical illnesses has reached 50 million users since it launched in October 2018. The app is called Xiang Hu Bao, which means ‘mutual protection’. It was created by mobile payment app Alipay, part of Ant Financial Services Group – which was spun out of billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba.

A programme developed for the early detection of children’s disruptive behaviour and low-threshold digital parent training intervention was successfully transferred to child health clinics in primary health care, shows a new Finnish study. In addition, the programme’s low discontinuation rate implies that parents experienced digitally implemented intervention as both user-friendly and easily accessible. This is the first study on the implementation of an online psychosocial treatment in paediatric primary health care which is based on population screening.

The U.S. government has spent $36 billion digitizing medical records for better, safer, and cheaper health care. Now the system is a mess.

There is an instinct among political pundits to confuse caution for practicality — an assumption that those who advocate for incremental change are being reasonable, while those pushing for bold reforms aren’t. This is seen most starkly in the debate around health care reform, despite the fact that the “practical” pushers of limited reform fail to address the real problems in our health care system.

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For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins Medicine completed the living donor HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant on Mar. 25. The doctors say both the donor and the recipient are doing well. “This is the first time someone living with HIV has been allowed to donate a kidney, ever, in the world, and that’s huge,” says Dorry Segev, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A bill that would allow state-licensed professionals to refuse to serve LGBTQ people if they cite their religion has advanced out of committee in the Texas senate. Senate Bill 17 would prevent state licensing agencies from denying or revoking licenses from professionals – including doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, and even barbers – if they claim to be following a “sincerely held religious belief.”

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I actually don’t mind when my patients request a colonoscopy without anesthesia. It seriously doesn’t bother me at all. I think that on the spectrum of force, I am quite gentle with the scope, and am confident that I will expose my patients to the minimal amount of discomfort during the procedure.