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12 Amazingly Creepy Abandoned Morgues - PROJ3CTM4YH3M Urban Exploration
Abandoned and derelict morgues and mortuaries are always really interesting places to photograph! One of my favourite places to photograph are Hospitals and old Asylums and so I have stumbled upon a couple in the few years I have been exploring. It's hard to put a finger on what exactly makes these rooms, which were built for the purpose of carving up and storing dead bodies, so morbidly intriguing but I still get a little excited when I enter a new morgue that I haven't seen before...
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Health officials kill proposal to curb mercury dental fillings
Senior U.S. health officials have squelched a Food and Drug Administration proposal that for the first time would have curbed dentists’ use of mercury – one of the planet’s nastiest toxins because it attacks the central nervous system – in treating Americans’ decayed teeth.
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The History of Healthcare in Louisville (Infographic)
Did you know where the first emergency room came from?
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We should harvest organs before a donor dies
A previously healthy middle-aged man has suffered a massive stroke from a ruptured artery in his brain and fallen into a persistent, then permanent, coma. Now imagine that before the stroke our hypothetical patient had expressed a wish to donate his organs after his death. If neurologists could determine that the patient had no chance of recovery, then would that patient really be harmed if transplant surgeons removed life-support, such as ventilators and feeding tubes, and took his organs...
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Nursing-Home Costs Leave Seniors Pondering Divorce
Jerry Clarke is pondering divorcing his wife of 52 years to deal with a monthly increase of $700 to pay for his wife's care in a nursing home in Fredericton, but the province says couples in need don't have to split to cover such costs.
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First Bilateral Hand Transplant in a Child: Zion's Story (2015 - 13 min)
The world’s first bilateral hand transplant in a child has taken place at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The surgery took more than 12 hours. The team, led by L. Scott Levin, M.D., and Benjamin Chang, M.D., included 12 surgeons, 8 nurses, 4 anesthesiologists and others. Levin and Chang direct the Hand Transplantation Program at CHOP. The recipient, Zion, 8, lost his hands and lower legs at the age of 2 as a result of a life-threatening infection.
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Happy Birthday Medicare
Medicare turns fifty next week. It was signed into law July 30, 1965 – the crowning achievement of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. It’s more popular than ever. Yet Medicare continues to be blamed for America’s present and future budget problems. That’s baloney.
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30th July 1965 - Johnson signs Medicare into law
At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card.
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How Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Changing Medicine
Jehovah’s Witnesses have led some doctors to reconsider the way they use blood transfusions for everyone.
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What it feels like to have Multiple Sclerosis when the government takes your disability benefit away
The personal independence payment benefit is failing the sick and disabled.
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The FDA Has Finally Approved Female Viagra
But they're also putting their strongest warning label on the package.
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Science Just Figured Out How to Stop the Spread of Cancer
We're one step closer to a cure.
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10 foods that are tough on your teeth
You can still eat them, but you might want to give a good brush afterwards.
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In defense of single-payer: How it would reduce administrative waste
A universal system would make documentation irrelevant, and, therefore, unnecessary. By Adam Gaffney, M.D.
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How the care crisis is making old age a nightmare
At 9am the 1,000 beds at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge were full. Senior nurses gathered together to spin through the state of play. “It’s not a fabulous bed state,” Julie Clayton, the hospital’s operations centre manager, said as she collated the news from each ward, marking the numbers of potential empty beds up on a board on the wall. That was an enormous understatement, but the atmosphere was calmly professional as they faced the start to a pretty typical day.
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Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer
A drug treating a common parasite that attacks people with weakened immune systems increased in cost 5,000% to $750 per pill. At a time of heightened attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs, doctors who treat patients with AIDS and cancer are denouncing the new cost to treat a condition that can be life-threatening.
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Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
The price of the drug, called Daraprim, a standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection, went to $750 a tablet from $13.50.
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Drug CEO Will Lower Price of Daraprim After Hike Sparked Outrage
The pharmaceutical company boss under fire for increasing the price of the drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent said Tuesday he will lower the cost of the life-saving medication. Martin Shkreli did not say what the new price would be, but expected a determination to be made over the next few weeks.
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Drug and biotech industry trade groups give Martin Shkreli the boot
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli has been called plenty of names this week, including some expletives: Public Enemy No. 1, a villain, the most hated man in America/the Internet/the world. Even Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump jumped in, ripping the 32-year-old former hedge fund manager as a "spoiled brat." It's one thing for your critics to pile on when you've done something distasteful like...
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'Most hated' pharmaceutical CEO's contact info exposed online
Late Wednesday night, someone posted the home address and phone number of Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who has been labeled “the most hated man in America.” Martin Shkreli is the former Wall Street guy who now leads a pharmaceutical company -- and recently raised the price on a long-existing drug called Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 overnight. The drug, which fights parasitic infections, cost AIDS patients 55 times more than before.
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