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Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform

Bill of Health

In 1992, a distressed 14-year-old girl named Amina came to her clinic asking for help, explaining that a man “had given her money to give to a doctor to make her period come.” Brookman-Amissah has often recounted a tragic, personal experience with a young patient that shifted her stance.

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Telehealth As A Solution For The Medicaid Population

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For these groups, remote care is often more user-friendly than seeing a doctor in person. Mitigating anxiety and a lack of trust People of color, who form a disproportionately large percentage of Medicaid recipients , have less trust in doctors and hospitals than white patients. population.

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Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers

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Global health law itself , anchored in the International Health Regulations (2005), purports to present a universal perspective, but arguably rigidifies colonialist assumptions about the sources of disease, national security imperatives, priorities in monitoring “emergencies,” and governance at a distance.

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Phreesia Acquires MediFind, Reinforcing its Commitment to Patient-Centered Care and Expanding its Offerings to Consumers

Healthcare IT Today

MediFind uses machine learning and proprietary algorithms to continuously review medical information across a wide range of datasets, identifying leading doctors in specific conditions and fields based on factors such as their research output, the volume of patients, and standing among their peers.

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Error which caused 80,000 German medical practices to lose their connection to telematics infrastructure has been resolved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Due to a deficiency in the security architecture, the insured master data system was partially disrupted from 27 May this year, meaning that for around eight weeks doctors were not able to transfer patient master data. THE LARGER CONTEXT. It was taken over by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) in 2019.

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. As proof, they cite three cases: the Court’s 2005 ruling in Gonzales v. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way. Marino et al.,

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Access to Reproductive Technology May Be Impeded by Workplace Law and Policy in South Africa

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Surrogacy is specifically regulated under the Children’s Act of 2005, which sets out the legal requirements for a valid surrogacy agreement. The National Health Act (2003) and its accompanying regulations apply to fertility care generally, together with the guidelines that apply to reproductive health and fertility specialists.