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Dr. Susan Massad created a āhealth teamā after learning she had metastatic breast cancer. These friends and family members help her make difficult decisions and lead the most fulfilling life possible.
Patients with advanced cancer and heart disease are among those who have had to have surgeries and other treatments delayed and rescheduled as a high number of critically ill, unvaccinated covid patients strain the medical system.
The New York City Fire Departmentās 20-year report on the health consequences of the 9/11 terrorist attacks finds that first responders consistently report mental health quality-of-life indicators that are better than those of average Americans, even as their physical health declines.
Patients often fork over payments comparable to valet rates to park while receiving care. A recent study found that some of the countryās most prestigious cancer centers charge nearly $1,700 over the course of treatment for some types of the disease.
Access to physician-assisted death is expanding across the U.S., but the procedure remains in Montanaās legal gray zone more than a decade after the state Supreme Court ruled physicians could use a dying patientās consent as a defense.
On Monday, Connecticut will be the first state to begin vaccinating anyone from age 55 to 64 ā instead of people with chronic health issues and essential workers.
Multiple-gene panel tests are frequently offered to patients at risk for diseases such as cancer that can assess more than 80 genes. But in screening a wide variety of genes, doctors might see a variant that hasnāt yet been deciphered and be unable to explain its significance, leaving patients with concerns and no answers.
Older patients with cancer, dementia or other serious illnesses should check with their doctors, but medical experts recommend the vaccine for most people.
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A proposal in Washington state would use right-to-try laws to allow terminally ill patients access to psilocybin ā the famed magic mushrooms of Americaās psychedelic ā60s ā to ease depression and anxiety.
The National Cancer Institute plans to launch a multisite study next year involving roughly 5,000 women to assess whether self-sampling at home for the human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer is comparable to screening in a doctorās office.
Cancer patients seeking care during the coronavirus pandemic face an array of obstacles as states reopen, such as heavily restricted in-hospital appointments and new clinical trials on hold.
As hospitals across the country are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures in response to the surge in patients with COVID-19, those hard choices are disrupting care for some people with serious illnesses.
California has one of the lowest rates of new lung cancer cases in the country, attributed largely to its aggressive anti-tobacco policies. But gaps in the stateās health care system mean that people who are diagnosed with the disease, or at a high risk of getting it, often fall through the cracks.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Companies are aggressively touting 3D mammograms, although thereās no evidence they save lives.
In Colorado case, the right to aid a cancer patientās death runs up against faith-based hospital policies. As more states have passed laws, about 1 in 6 acute care beds nationally is in a hospital that is Catholic-owned or -affiliated.
What began in India as a populist movement to bring inexpensive morphine to the diseased and dying poor has paved the way for a booming pain management industry. Now, new customers are being funneled to U.S. drugmakers bedeviled by a government crackdown back home.
Studies long have linked urban firefightersā on-the-job exposure to toxins with an increased risk of cancer. More recently, as urban-style development reaches into once remote stretches of Californiaās mountains and forests, wildfire crews are exposed to fuels and carcinogens more typical of urban fires. We talk with Tony Stefani of the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation about the health risks that poses for firefighters.
Kathy Brandt and her wife, Kim Acquaviva, national experts in hospice and palliative care, shared intimate details of Brandtās experience with terminal cancer before her death Sunday.
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