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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Emergency room doctors and mental health advocates say there's a crisis happening in ERs. Surging numbers of patients with psychiatric disabilities are not receiving the care they need. NPR's Merrit Kennedy reports the issu
Hospice Helps Patients Live Their Final Days 临终关怀帮助病人生活最后一天 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. I'm June Simms. When people hear the word hospice, they usually link it to death and dying. But as ---------
Cameroon Heart Patients: A Bumpy Road to Care YAOUNDE, CAMEROON The best heart care in central Africa is probably found in a sophisticated cardiac care center outside of Kumbo Town, 450 kilometers northwest of Cameroons capital, Yaounde. But the loca
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: There's an emerging movement to hold hospitals accountable for people addicted to prescription opioids resulting from a hospital stay. From member station WBUR in Boston, Martha Bebinger reports. MARTHA BEBINGER, BYLINE: Katie
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Dr. Gong Yongxiang, head of the Aier ophthalmic expert team, performed a free cataract surgery on a Myanmar patient at the Sitagu Shwe Pyi Hein Clinic in Yangon on May 19th, 2017. [Photo: China Plus/Tu Yun] Some 200 cataract patients in Myanmar will
New Drug Makes Surgery Safer For Patients With Stents Heart stents open blocked arteries and restore blood flow. They can also help support weak arteries and keep them open. Stents are implanted during a common procedure called angioplasty. During th
Cheaper Drugs Allow Better Treatment of HIV/AIDS Patients PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is responsible for getting millions of people on treatment. But researchers say it was not until the program started using cheaper generi
C-PAP Could Help Heart Patients Anyone whose husband, wife or partner who snores loudly is probably wishing for a separate bedroom. It's the telltale sign of obstructive sleep apnea, a chronic disorder in which the person experiences shallow breathin
Aging HIV/AIDS Survivors Create New Class of Patients In sub-Saharan Africa, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has reduced the mortality rate among HIV-infected people by 20 percent. Many of the people receiving treatment who are now in their forties ar
When doctors treat brain injuries they generally focus on physical trauma and mental issues, but depression can develop as well and be just as disabling. A new study shows high rates of depression in the first year following a brain injury. Traumatic
Targeted Treatment May Improve Odds for Breast Cancer Patients WASHINGTON New research could change the way breast cancer is treated. When Shante Thomas was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, it came as a complete shock. Am I going to die? Honestl
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's a provision in the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid dollars for at least a year. Opponents of abortion rights say public funds for serv
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Spending long stretches of time in the hospital can be emotionally draining. There's the loss of basic comforts, the sterile environment, fluorescent lights and indignities, like those open-backed disposable gowns. To tr
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nearly a third of African-Americans report experiencing discrimination when they've been to the doctor. It's according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Perhap
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: News this morning out of South Korea. A fire broke out in a hospital emergency room there and killed at least three dozen people. NPR's Elise Hu has more. ELISE HU, BYLINE: So far, investigators don't know what started the flames
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week, we've been hearing from people whose lives may change under a Donald Trump presidency. My co-host Ari Shapiro is talking with them as he drives through North Carolina and Virginia on his way to the inauguration. Today'
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Many studies of new drugs simply languish. They don't attract enough patients, and they aren't completed. That slows medical progress. Well, here's a counterexample. So many volunteers signed up for a federally funded trial of un
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: One more health story. To fight the opioid crisis, states are limiting the number of opioid pills that doctors can prescribe. But that's led to fears of another kind of health crisis with legitimate patients caught in the middle
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today the Trump administration is out with details of another piece of a campaign which is called Patients over Paperwork. Doctors would no longer have to submit detailed notes to justify longer, complicated patient visits, but t