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Unicef says 67 million children missed routine vaccinations because of Covid

The Unitied Nations children's agency has said that some 67 million children missed some or all common vaccines globally between 2019 and 2021, because of lockdowns and health care disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo launches her health care side hustle

While awaiting Instacart's IPO, Simo raised $35 million—and philanthropic funding from Sequoia’s Michael Moritz—for her Metrodora Institute

Fortune

Ageism, stigma hinders response to senior alcohol use disorder - Roll Call

Older adults dying of alcohol-related deaths is a problem that has been ignored by policymakers and health care providers, experts say.

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Medicare has been under pressure for years. So is it broken and can it be fixed?

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

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Lawmakers ‘scratching their heads’ at lack of answers on health breach

House lawmakers on Wednesday demanded accountability for a health care data breach affecting lawmakers and staff.

Roll Call

Maradona's medical team on trial in former great's death

An Argentine court says eight health care professionals will stand trial in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona in 2020

The Independent UK

What is a 'buffer zone' and what could a ban on anti-abortion protests look like?

Our campaign Give Us Space is backing Scottish Greens MSP Gillian Mackay’s members' bill to bring in protections for women accessing health care.

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Inquiry into Canberra abortion access scathing of Catholic-run hospital's limited reproductive healthcare, delivers 18 recommendations

An inquiry into Canberra abortion access recommends the ACT government crack down on Calvary Public Hospital's refusal to offer full suite of reproductive healthcare. Hospital refutes inquiry's findings.

ABC News

Minnesota startup creates disposable hijab for Muslim health care workers, patients

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — After spending months working in clinics and hospitals across the U.S. at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin Samatar and Firaoli Adam had grown tired of having to constantly change their hijabs throughout the day.

Tribune News Service

Questions over Falkirk health care underspend as GPs under 'extreme pressure'

Much of the money has been pledged to improve community services but remains unspent

Daily Record

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

WEKU

These 10 Crummy Stocks Already Cost Investors $300 Billion

What's worse than missing out on the five stocks driving the entire S&P 500 this year? Owning the ones that are dragging it down.

Investors Business Daily

Coroner recommends investigation, disclosure at conclusion of William Edmunds inquest

A New South Wales Coroner has recommended that the Health Care Complaints Commissioner investigate the care and treatment a doctor provided to an Oaklands man who died at Albury Base Hospital in 2019.

ABC News

Federal judge blocks Colorado’s ban on abortion reversal from applying to Catholic clinic that sued over law

A federal judge over the weekend temporarily blocked a new Colorado law that bans abortion-reversal treatment from being enforced against a Catholic health care clinic that immediately sued over the new law.

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Doctors grapple with their ‘unbelievable’ experiences during mission to Turkey and Syria in wake of earthquakes

CHICAGO — Just hours after he learned about the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Tarek Kabbany was on social media around 3 a.m. and saw a picture of his younger sister’s apartment building in southern Turkey destroyed.

Tribune News Service

UK says offer to health care staff final as nurses plan strikes

The U.K. government said its latest pay offer to striking health care workers is final with one of the biggest nurses’ unions warning that walkouts could continue through Christmas without a better deal.

Salon

The path to universal health care

Universal health care is the norm in almost every other wealthy country. What's stopping us from doing it here?

The Conversation

An emergency in the making: Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous

On March 31, 2023 the Ford government in Ontario ended the expanded health-care funding it put in place when the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.

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What’s on Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s desk after the 2023 General Assembly session?

BALTIMORE — Maryland Democrats had an ambitious agenda at the start of the first session of a Gov. Wes Moore’s brand-new term.

The Texas Tribune

Terrified and angry, LGBTQ Texans and allies rally at Capitol to protest bills targeting queer community

With six weeks remaining in the legislative session, advocates implored Texans to join the “resistance” against fast-moving efforts to curb health care, drag queens, education, trans athletes and more.

Chicago Tribune

As Walmart closes stores in Chicago, community leaders raise concerns about health care, pharmacy access

Kimberly Jackson-Miller, a resident of Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, has been a customer of the Walmart in Chatham since it opened more than a decade ago.

ABC News

Ravensthorpe doctor believes 'rural generalist hub' could help improve remote health care, avoid burnout

Michael Livingston believes city-based decision-makers are failing remote GPs, leading to unsustainable practices and shortages across the country. But he believes he has a solution — a model he calls the "rural generalist hub".

Chicago Sun-Times

First gay president of Chicago-based American Medical Association Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld talks about challenges he’ll face

An anesthesiologist in Milwaukee, Navy combat veteran and father of two young children, he spoke in an interview about himself, his job and the AMA’s outspokenness on big issues.

The Independent UK

Colorado governor to sign abortion, transgender care bills

Colorado's Democratic governor is scheduled to sign a set of health care bills Friday afternoon that enshrine protections for abortion and gender-affirming care procedures and medications

The Independent UK

Missouri rules part of rapid push to limit trans health care

The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri's new limits on gender-affirming care

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