The state covers basic services for vulnerable residents, including things like air purifiers for kids with asthma. But nonprofits offering the services struggle to work within the health care system.
One would never expect a city of about 200,000 people to report more cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) than a city of 3.8 million, but that’s exactly what Columbus has done.
The National Medical Association convenes in Atlanta starting this weekend. The goal is to come away with strategies and potential legislative action on gun violence which they call a health crisis in the U.S.
In this week’s Medical Minute, a “21-gene cell-death signature” researchers say could indicate, at the time of diagnosis, which patients are at increased risk of dying early and how to better treat their disease.
