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Obamacare Insurers Sweeten Plans With Free Doctor Visits
Health insurers in several big cities will take some pain out of doctor visits in 2016. The plans will offer free visits to primary care doctors in their networks.
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Can ancient remedies head off super-bug crisis?
UK researchers cite promising signs of 1,000-year-old Anglo Saxon treatment against drug-resistant bacterial infection. By Ryan Rifai.
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What the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan Tells Us About Austerity
Austerity is literally poisoning our children. By Alyssa Peterson.
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Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water
The EPA has yet to regulate the toxic PFCs found in fire-suppressing foam, Teflon, and other products that have contaminated our drinking water. By Sharon Lerner.
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America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere.
The city of Flint, Michigan, is in the midst of a terrible and rightly shocking lead poisoning crisis. The number of kids testing positive for elevated lead levels in their bloodstreams has doubled in the past few years, after the city switched to a new, cheaper water source. This is an extreme case, but the problem of lead exposure among children is not a local Flint story. If you look at public health data, you begin to realize two things.
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Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly
With the proposed connection between the Zika virus and Brazil's outbreak of microcephaly in new born babies looking increasingly tenuous, Latin American doctors are proposing another possible cause: Pyriproxyfen, a pesticide used in Brazil since 2014 to arrest the development of mosquito larvae in drinking water tanks. Might the 'cure' in fact be the poison? By Claire Robinson.
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Christie Signs Bill Privatizing New Jersey’s Water Supply
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law on Thursday legislation that critics say sells out the state’s water supply and democratic process for private profits. By Andrea Germanos. (Feb. 6)
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Zika hysteria is way ahead of research into virus, says expert
Leslie Lobel says it’s unclear whether birth defects in Brazil are linked to Zika, and any panic can cause more harm than the virus itself.
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Anti-vaccination might be rational, but is it reasonable?
Parents who reject vaccination are making a rational choice – they prefer to put their children above the public good. By Maggie Koerth-Baker.
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As heroin epidemic rages, Hep C cases soar
High cost for care, risks of HIV coinfection trouble health officials. By Terry DeMio.
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CDC Sees Birth Defects in Pregnant US Travelers With Zika
Today, the CDC released some of the first evidence of a connection between Zika and microcephaly in Americans who contracted the virus while they were traveling. By Katie M. Palmer .
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[New Orleans] Lead poisoning lawyers make $2 million; victims average $17,000
Three lawyers appointed by the court to help administer the settlement fund were paid, in total, almost $2 million, with one of them making almost half a million dollars for four months of work. By Richard A. Webster.
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Flint Whistleblower: Health Impact of DC Water 20-30 Times Worse than Flint
The Virginia Tech professor credited with sounding the alarm about poisoned water in Flint says the District of Columbia’s own long-running problems with lead exposure dwarf the crisis in Michigan. By David Eldridge.
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Non-Vaccinators Don’t Care If You Die
New research finds that many recent epidemics happened in areas where people are unvaccinated by choice. By Laura June.
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Super-gonorrhoea's spread 'causing huge concern'
Doctors have expressed "huge concern" that super-gonorrhoea has spread widely across England and to gay men. The new superbug prompted a national alert last year when it emerged in Leeds, as one of the main treatments had become useless against it. Public Health England acknowledges measures to contain the outbreak have been of "limited success". Doctors fear the sexually transmitted infection, which can cause infertility, could soon become untreatable.
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The Cutthroat Politics of Public Health in Ancient Rome
And what we can learn from it today. .
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Flint Residents Told Their Poisoned Water Might Soon Cost Them Twice as Much
Michigan state officials announced Thursday that Flint residents will not be charged for their water usage in May as part of an effort to help flush the system, but the long-term picture for the lead-poisoned city is far less rosy, according to a new report.
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FDA calls for sharp reduction in salt added to foods
U.S. health officials recommended cutting the amount of salt added to foods to help Americans reduce their sodium consumption by about a third, according to proposed guidelines that are likely to have a wide-ranging impact on the processed food industry in the United States.
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Is Killing Paddlers in the South
A recent tragedy in North Carolina has stirred up alarm over a common but mysterious water-borne organism that kills nearly every person it infects. By Sam Boykin.
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The Ghost of King Leopold II Still Haunts Us
Belgium Colonization and the Ignition of the HIV Global Pandemic. “HIV-1 was ignited in Leopoldville, but the resulting HIV global pandemic is also the apparition of a grotesque and horrific legacy—the European infection of mass historical trauma and the devastation of Congolese health wrought by King Leopold II, the Force Publique, and Belgian colonization.” By Dr. Lawrence Brown. (Apr. 20, 2015)
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