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Right to Try
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Anchor lead: Can legislation compel insurers to cover some cancer treatments? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with advanced cancers should be able to try medications and treatments without having to attempt older and less expensive regimens first. That’s the substance of …
Housing and Health
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Anchor lead: Housing figures large in frequent hospitalization, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can helping people with chronic health conditions find stable housing reduce how often they need to be hospitalized? Studies show that housing is a huge factor among social determinants …
Impact on Mortality
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Anchor lead: Social determinants of health are impacting overall lifespan, Elizabeth Tracey reports Life expectancy continues to drop for Americans, a very large study finds. Redonda Miller, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, examines the data. Miller: It showed that …
Treating Depression
Diabetes and Depression Screening
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Anchor lead: Among those with diabetes it’s critical to ask about depression, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes, even when blood sugar is under control, is a risk factor for developing depression. Sherita Golden, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says this …
Depression and Diabetes
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Anchor lead: Depression and diabetes often go together, Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression figures large among the many complications of diabetes, yet doesn’t receive the attention of things like cardiovascular disease, eye disease or nerve pain. Sherita Golden, a diabetes expert …