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Uterine fibroids that can cause chronic pain and disrupt pregnancy plans disproportionately affect Black women, and research that would help women and girls is underfunded, experts say.
The noncancerous tumors can be as small as a pea to larger than a football. More than 80% of Black women will have fibroids by age 50, the National Institutes of Health says, compared to about 70% of white women. Black women with fibroids are twice as likely as white women to have hysterectomies as a treatment.
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As the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic shifted to the U.S. with a quarter of the world s confirmed cases the fear of economic collapse was palpable. Many Americans got free tests, only to be hit later with surprise bills. Hundreds of thousands died; hundreds of thousands were hospitalized. For survivors, they may pay annual salaries worth of bills; for those who died, their families do not get a funeral. Instead, they will get a visit from one of the country s ruthless collection hound dogs.
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JAMA on lawsuits and wage garnishments by hospitals for unpaid medical bills in Virginia refueled discussions surrounding medical debt. As I looked closer at this issue in my own state of Maryland, I learned how hospitals got lured into the business of suing their patients after caring for them. According to the Maryland Judiciary s public case records, in 2018-2019, nearly 16,000 people had been sued in Maryland, and half of them by the
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Soon after intervention for an MI, remaining high-risk vulnerable plaques can be identified from catheter-based imaging, according to a natural history study.
Most of the 13.22% of major cardiac events that happened over 4 years among a cohort of 898 MI survivors stemmed from untreated lesions deemed angiographically benign and non-flow-limiting at the time of the index MI, reported the PROSPECT II team led by David Erlinge, MD, PhD, of Lund University in Sweden, in the March 13 issue of
Fully 8.0% of people had their cardiac death, MI, unstable angina, or progressive angina events arising from non-culprit lesions identified from a dedicated intracoronary near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheter.
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