Questions tagged [healthcare]
QUESTIONS ASKING FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL ADVICE ARE OFF-TOPIC. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN. Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is organised (at least for the purposes of tagging on this site).
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Is it true that multiple American Presidents have silenced American Federal health agencies? [closed]
According to this report from an American news station:
The Trump administration has told
Federal health agencies to pause external communications.
According to sources, that includes regular ...
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Is United Healthcare the fourth largest company by market capitalization in the USA?
As published by Ken Klippenstein, in _"Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto"
United [Healthcare] is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. ...
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Is bipolar disorder chronic?
UT Southwestern Medical Centre says
There is no cure for bipolar disorder, but the condition is very treatable for most people.
The website says that it is a myth that patients can stop treatment ...
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Is replacing a bad habit with a good one more effective than stopping the bad habit alone?
Replacing bad habits with good ones is commonplace advice. However, I have seen this claim repeated on reputable sites, suggesting that there is evidence behind it, but no evidence is provided:
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Does increasing one's probiotic uptake lower the chance of getting sick after swimming in waters of questionable quality?
I read on Olympic triathletes hope the Seine River is clean enough for swimming after recent rains regarding swimming in waters of questionable quality:
“We've all been upping our probiotic uptake, ...
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Have human infant foreskins been put into commercial cosmetic products?
It's been a thing I've heard for a long time now, but I simply thought it was some sort of slander campaign. I recently read an article in Boston magazine which said
"the active ingredient in an ...
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Did UK NHS nurses mistreat a Jewish boy because they "supported Palestine"?
Claim: A 9 year old boy with blood disorder was mistreated at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (the way I interpreted the claim was that he was actually denied treatment and made to lie on the ...
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?
The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2022 (archive.is link):
Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender
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Lady Nicholson said that the case had arisen as a direct ...
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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?
When it is said that abortion is significantly safer for women compared to childbirth in mainstream media articles, it is often followed by a reference to a scientific study called The Comparative ...
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Does getting more doses of COVID-19 vaccinations correlate to more hospitalisations in NSW, Australia?
Twitter user @LCHF_Matt has created a NSW Surveillance Report which is a dashboard that compare the rate of "events" (which can be configured to include COVID-19 deaths, COVID-19 ICU ...
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Did Louis Pasteur admit on his deathbed "Bernard [the inventor of terrain theory] was right"?
On many 'health' sites defending terrain theory (the theory that the state of the body, not just germs, is the primal factor for disease development) one finds quotes that Louis Pasteur is said to ...
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Is drinking milk after ingesting persimmon dangerous?
I've heard growing up that you should not ingest persimmon and milk at the same time or ingest one right after the other. Is this true?
See Quora Is it true after eating persimmon you should avoid ...
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Does eating almonds increase kidney stone risk?
The article Surprising side effects of eating too many almonds claims:
Kidney stones can be a health issue one can face if too many almonds
are consumed. Kidney stones are formed when there's a high ...
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Is the cervix pierced during the insertion of an IUD?
From this reddit post:
This is the first step to the insertion of an IUD. They are piercing
the cervix with no anesthesia or local numbing and it's most common
for clients to be unaware of this step.
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Is Walter Reed not able to handle the number of Havana Syndrome patients?
Journalist Julia Ioffe just said this in a Puck News article:
Meanwhile, the number of government employees suffering from Havana Syndrome has jumped from a couple dozen to a couple hundred. Some ...
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