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Not Insurance, Hospital Monopoly Drives Up Knee Surgery Prices
For the same knee surgery, from the same insurance company, prices can vary by more than double depending on which hospital still faces competitive rivals in the region. This is the consequence of a wave of hospital merg…
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Ebola vaccine accelerated, but Congo's disease control system is running on fumes
As pharmaceutical companies accelerate unprecedented trials of an Ebola vaccine, front-line health workers in Congo are striking over unpaid wages — a gap between the laboratory and the field that is determining the fate…
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Medicare Part D Premium Stabilization Subsidy Ends One Year Early
Washington is cutting a subsidy that keeps Medicare drug insurance premiums down one year ahead of schedule, shifting cost-increase pressure directly onto seniors who depend on standalone drug plans — a group that includ…
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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…