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Medicare 'free' drugs: a silent trap for elderly Vietnamese Americans
The 2023 Medicaid disenrollment wave was a wake-up call. Now, thousands of elderly Medicare beneficiaries are discovering that their free drug plans have quietly vanished — and Vietnamese Americans, from healthcare worke…
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Black market peptides: gambling with the health of elderly Vietnamese Americans
As the FDA considers relaxing restrictions on peptides promoted by influencers, many elderly Vietnamese Americans are self-injecting unapproved products — believing they are as safe as prescription drugs.
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Abortion Pills Through the Mail: How State Bans Have Failed
Four years after abortion bans spread across America, the actual number of abortion cases has nearly doubled — thanks to abortion medication sent through the mail crossing state lines. For Vietnamese American healthcare …
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Quartz dust in your kitchen is killing young craftspeople — and no one is being held accountable
Quartz stone countertops are killing young workers — mostly immigrants — in small fabrication shops across America. This is not a workplace accident: this is a public health crisis that the retail industry knows about bu…
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Ozempic and Other Weight Loss Drugs May Make Vietnamese-American Users Less Active
A new study presented at the ENDO 2026 conference shows that users of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs actually move less after losing weight — a dangerous paradox for elderly Vietnamese-Americans and healthcare workers inc…