Many People Living in the ‘Diabetes Belt’ Are Plagued With Medical Debt
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her…
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Readers and Tweeters Are Horrified by Harm Tied to Dental Device
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.Teeth-Gnashing…
New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?
Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain.“A lot of them are…
A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in…
Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year.Doctors told Stout, now 62, the sharp pain and congestion in his chest were caused by…
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt
Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected…
Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs
Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist.Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel…