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    If one person in the household is sick with COVID-19, everyone else in the home should consider themselves as possibly having an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic infection, even if they feel fine, doctors say.
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    How To Stay Healthy When Your Child, Spouse Or Roommate Has COVID-19

    Apr 16, 2020
    Sharing a home with someone who has COVID-19 raises your risk of catching the virus. But the sick person needs your support, as well as good hygiene skills. Try these "best practice" tips.
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    Investigations
    When Lex Frieden broke his hip, a Texas hospital decided against an operation. Frieden, a quadriplegic since 1967, would never walk, so the surgery wasn't necessary, the doctors reasoned, a decision that left him with lasting pain.
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    People With Disabilities Fear Pandemic Will Worsen Medical Biases

    Apr 15, 2020
    As medical providers prepare for the possibility that they may have to ration care, many people with disabilities fear they will get lesser treatment.
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    Shots - Health News
    Former Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference in Wilmington, Del., in mid-March. His bid this week to allow 60-year-olds to get Medicare "reflects the reality," he says, "that, even after the current crisis ends, older Americans are likely to fin
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    Biden's Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare's Eligibility Age To 60

    Apr 11, 2020
    Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He'd pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Nurses check registration lists before testing patients for coronavirus at the University of Washington Medical Center on March 13 in Seattle.
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    People With Disabilities Say Rationing Care Policies Violate Civil Rights

    Mar 23, 2020
    People with disabilities are asking the federal government to stop state and hospital policies that they fear will ration care in favor of younger and healthier people.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    As classes move online, many schools fear students with disabilities could be left behind, in violation of federal laws. The Education Department calls this reading of the law "a serious misunderstanding."
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    Education Dept. Says Disability Laws Shouldn't Get In The Way Of Online Learning

    Mar 23, 2020
    As classes move online, many schools fear students with disabilities could be left behind, in violation of federal laws. The department calls this reading of the law "a serious misunderstanding."
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    Mask Shortage Straps Pharmacists Who Need Them To Keep Medicines Pure

    Mar 20, 2020
    Fifteen percent of hospital pharmacists who prepare injectable drugs are going without the protective masks they typically rely on, or are using substitutes for the masks.
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    Shots - Health News
    MedStar Washington Hospital Center's "ready room" in Washington, D.C., has mostly been used to house emergency supplies — but some storage carts have been moved out to make way for patient assessment stations.
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    Are U.S. Hospitals Ready?

    Mar 17, 2020
    Here's what it will take for medical facilities across the nation to handle the coming surge of COVID-19 patients.
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    Shots - Health News
    Ventilators can be a temporary bridge to recovery — many patients in critical care who need them for help breathing get better.
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    As The Pandemic Spreads, Will There Be Enough Ventilators?

    Mar 14, 2020
    In severe cases of COVID-19, as lungs become inflamed, membranes that transfer oxygen into the blood can become blocked. Some hospitalized patients need mechanical breathing support to recover.
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    Flattening A Pandemic's Curve: Why Staying Home Now Can Save Lives

    Mar 13, 2020
    From school closures to event cancellations, the disruptions are real — and vital. It's all to slow the spread of coronavirus, so hospitals don't get so overwhelmed that they can't treat the sickest.
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    Shots - Health News
    A passenger checks flight information at Fiumicino airport in Rome, Italy. President Trump imposed a 30-day ban on most travelers coming from from European countries, beginning late Friday E.T.
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    Public Health Experts Question Trump's Ban On Most Travelers From Europe

    Mar 12, 2020
    A key medical adviser to the president on COVID-19 defends the travel restrictions as "the right public health call." But others dismiss the move as "remarkably pointless" or, potentially, dangerous.
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    Shots - Health News
    President Trump signs an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill in the White House Friday. That's significantly more than he originally requested from Congress.
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    Where That $8.3 Billion In U.S. Coronavirus Funding Will And Won't Go

    Mar 06, 2020
    President Trump and Congress Friday authorized a package of emergency funding to help and treat and slow the spread of COVID-19. About $950 million is designated for state and local response.
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    Shots - Health News
    The Trump administration said Wednesday that inspectors will be dispatched to determine whether staff at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., followed infection-control rules in the weeks leading up to deaths of residents there from COVID-19.
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    Trump Administration Announces New Scrutiny Of Nursing Homes

    Mar 05, 2020
    Health inspectors are to be "hyperfocused on infection control right now," officials say, as they suss out what allowed COVID-19 to spread in a Kirkland, Wash., nursing home.
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    Shots - Health News
    Scientists at the Casey Eye Institute, in Portland, Ore., have have injected a harmless virus containing CRISPR gene-editing instructions inside the retinal cells of a patient with a rare form of genetic blindness.
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    In A 1st, Scientists Use Revolutionary Gene-Editing Tool To Edit Inside A Patient

    Mar 04, 2020
    Doctors used CRISPR to edit genes of cells inside a patient's eye, hoping to restore vision to a person blinded by a rare genetic disorder. A similar strategy might work for some brain diseases.
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    Shots - Health News
    Sarah Ziegenhorn and Andy Beeler shared a selfie while hiking in Texas' Big Bend National Park in December 2018. Beeler died of an opioid overdose last March. Ziegenhorn traces his death to the many obstacles to medical care that Beeler experienced while
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    They Fell In Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him From Helping Himself

    Feb 24, 2020
    Sarah and Andy were in love and also advocates, determined to keep drug users from dying. But when his own addiction reemerged, Andy's fear of returning to prison kept him from the best treatment.
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    Shots - Health News
    The house that John High rents with his son in Norman, Okla., doesn't even have a windowless room he could retreat to in a tornado, he says, and he can't afford to build a a wheelchair-accessible storm shelter.
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    Many Tornado Alley Residents With Disabilities Lack Safe Options In A Storm

    Feb 18, 2020
    Oklahoma used to have more public shelters that could accommodate wheelchairs. But many have closed, and there's still no financial aid for renters with disabilities to build safe alternatives.
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    Shots - Health News
    This image from an electron microscope shows a cross-sectional view of an oligodendrocyte (blue) among nerve fibers coated with myelin (dark red). In models of autism spectrum disorder, oligodendrocytes appear to create too much or too little myelin.
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    Researchers Link Autism To A System That Insulates Brain Wiring

    Feb 03, 2020
    Brains affected by autism appear to share a problem with cells that make myelin, the insulating coating surrounding nerve fibers that controls the speed at which the fibers convey electrical signals.
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    Shots - Health News
    Overall, U.S. health spending is more than twice the average of other Western nations, and it's not just a matter of high drug prices. No wonder voters list health and the high price of care as one of their major election concerns as they head to the pol
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    U.S. Elections 2020: Understanding What's At Stake For Health Care

    Jan 29, 2020
    With the Iowa caucuses and first primaries just weeks away, many voters say they're still confused about how presidential candidates differ on health care. Here's a guide to key issues and terms.
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    Animals
    The number of pets on planes has become a hot-button issue of late as emotional support animals have become more common than ever.
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    Federal Government May Tighten Restrictions On Service Animals On Planes

    Jan 23, 2020
    One of the biggest changes is that the Department of Transportation would no longer require airlines to consider emotional support animals as service animals, as they have in the past.
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    Shots - Health News
    Some people land in the hospital over and over. Although research suggests that giving those patients extra follow-up care from nurses and social workers won't reduce those extra hospital visits, some hospitals say the approach still saves them money in
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    'To Stop Now Would Be Foolish': Doubling Down On Services For High-Cost Patients

    Jan 22, 2020
    A study this month showed giving extra social services to the neediest patients didn't reduce hospital readmissions. Now health advocates say that might not be the right measurement of success.
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    Patients Want To Die At Home, But Home Hospice Care Can Be Tough On Families

    Jan 21, 2020
    The for-profit hospice industry has grown, allowing more Americans to die at home. But few family members realize that "hospice care" still means they'll do most of the physical and emotional work.
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    Shots - Health News
    Generics may not have the same cost-lowering power for specialty medicines, such as multiple sclerosis drugs, researchers find. That's true especially when other brand-name drugs are approved to treat a given disease before the first generic is approved.
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    Patients Still Struggle To Balance High Costs Of MS Treatment, Despite Generic

    Jan 20, 2020
    Drugs to treat multiple sclerosis can run $70,000 a year or more. Patients hoped competition from a generic version of one of the most popular brands would spur relief, but prices went up. Here's why.
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    Investigations

    Two Wheelchair Users Faced A $25,000 Fee To Travel On Amtrak

    Jan 17, 2020
    It costs $16 to take the Amtrak from Chicago to Bloomington, Ill. But people who use wheelchairs were recently asked to pay $25,000. Amtrak defended the cost, saying it reflects a new policy.
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    Shots - Health News
    Norm Ciha says he lost his bedding, clothes and the medicine he'd been prescribed to treat hepatitis C during a sweep of his camp outside an Ikea in Emeryville, Calif., in November 2018.
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    Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

    Jan 10, 2020
    Cities have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling homeless camps that they say pose a risk to health and safety. But that's meant some displaced people are losing needed medications.
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    Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

    Jan 08, 2020
    Matching the sickest patients with social workers and medical support doesn't reduce costly hospital readmissions, a study finds. Still, some believe greater social investment could make a difference.
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    Shots - Health News
    Student demonstrators cheered in 2015 outside the Supreme Court after learning that the high court had upheld the Affordable Care Act as law of the land. But Republican foes of the federal health law are still working to have it struck down.
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    Stakes High For Democrats And Republicans In Bid To Rush ACA To Supreme Court

    Jan 08, 2020
    Both sides say they want the high court to quickly weigh in on a case that could invalidate the federal health law. Whatever the court decides will likely have consequences in 2020 elections.

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