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A few years ago, I contracted pneumonia and landed in the hospital for a few days. My nurse and I became fast friends as I asked her a thousand questions about her job. During her nightly rounds, she slipped me extra Jell-O, and we watched “Jeopardy!” together, both of us shouting the answers. Around 34 […]
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A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram. It might sound like science fiction, but it is the reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas. In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability […]
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Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate health committee, called on a government watchdog to investigate why insurance companies are still charging women for birth control — a move that thrust access to contraceptives back into the spotlight. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, the senator noted that insurance […]
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Kanwal Haq, a New York-based doula, was on a plane home from a vacation last September when she received a text from her client: “It’s game day here.” The baby was arriving a week earlier than planned. “They are keeping me in triage right now though because I’m only 3cm,” her client, Alyssa Coats-Clark, wrote. […]
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A Senate committee is investigating the prices that Novo Nordisk charges for its blockbuster medications, Ozempic and Wegovy, which are highly effective at treating diabetes and obesity but carry steep price tags. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said in an interview that the […]
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Last spring, Tia Washington, 52, a mother of three in Dublin, Calif., received a stern warning from her doctor: If she didn’t quickly gain control of her high blood pressure, she was likely to end up in the emergency room. He wrote a prescription for blood pressure medication and urged her to see a health […]
Continue ReadingI’m Knvul Sheikh, a reporter on the Well desk at The New York Times, where I cover health and wellness. I’ve written about the seemingly never-ending cycle of flu cases, coughs and colds, as well as how to reduce your exposure to chemicals in personal care products and how to make sense of your cholesterol […]
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While Covid has become a regular part of respiratory virus season, community testing centers and drive-through sites where you could determine whether it’s the source of your sniffles have all but vanished. At-home tests are still a valuable tool to protect yourself and others from the virus, though, and they remain widely available in pharmacies […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help. He spends nearly every hour of every day anxiously overseeing her care at their home on the Isle of Palms, a barrier island near Charleston, […]
Continue ReadingFor 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that. […]
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If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home. If you’re poor, you can turn to Medicaid for nursing homes or aides at home. But if you’re middle class, you’ll have a thorny decision to make: whether to buy long-term care insurance. […]
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Are you confused about what an assisted-living facility is, and how it differs from a nursing home? And what you can expect to pay? Here’s a guide to this type of housing for older people. What is assisted living? Assisted-living facilities occupy the middle ground of housing for people who can no longer live independently […]
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