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Deadly Mexico kidnapping highlights the dangers of US citizens seeking medical procedures in the region

Violin08/03/2023 57 Views

A deadly Mexico kidnapping revealed the dangers Americans face in their pursuit of health care abroad as medical tourism continues to grow in response to high medical costs at home.

Four Americans made headlines this week after they were violently attacked and kidnapped after crossing the US-Mexico border into the city of Matamoros in the state of Tamaulipas, just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas.

Three of the travelers made the journey while accompanying their friend Latavia Washington McGee, who was seeking a medical procedure in Mexico. Two of the four Americans were killed.

An ambulance in Playa del

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In search of healthcare, a child joins mass migration to Chile | Migration News

Violin03/03/2023 68 Views

Colchane, Chile – Allyson’s breathing grows heavier as she advances along the informal border crossing, making her way across the vast, high-altitude wetlands where Bolivia fades into Chile.

Accustomed to living with an illness that afflicts her lungs, the 5-year-old girl speaks in a low, gravelly voice that almost sounds adult: “We came to Chile for my surgery and work.”

The young girl and her family are among the tens of thousands of Latin American migrants and asylum seekers who have braved the highland plateau, with its extreme temperatures, for a new life in Chile. In recent years, the country

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Private medical clinic opens in Halifax

Violin02/03/2023 43 Views

It hasn’t officially seen any patients yet, but Monday was the first day open for Halifax’s new private medical clinic, called Bluenose Health Primary Care Clinic.

With four exam rooms, the nurse practitioner in charge of the primary care facility on Young Street says the phones have already been busy.

“There has been a lot of interest, we have a lot of people who want to sign up,” says Lori Anne Peckford.

The ongoing debate over whether privatization should fill gaps in public health care means Peckford is aware of the many questions and concerns Maritimers may have about the

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Collecting racial data in Manitoba hospitals will help ‘disrupt and destroy’ racism in health care: doctors

Violin09/02/2023 98 Views

Manitoba is launching a new system-wide expansion of race-based data collection in hospitals, building on efforts to track how different racial groups were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Beginning this spring, the province will ask patients to self-declare their racial or ethnic background as part of the hospital admission process, making Manitoba the first Canadian jurisdiction to do so, according to the University of Manitoba.

“Black, Indigenous and racialized people actually receive significantly unequal care by race, and that is a reflection of how multi-level racism operates in our health-care system,” said Dr. Marcia Anderson, executive director of the Ongomiizwin Indigenous

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BC Launches New Legal Action over Privatized Health Care

Violin05/02/2023 42 Views

Another company that charges patients an annual fee for access to primary health care is facing legal action from the BC government.

The province’s Medical Services Commission went to the BC Supreme Court Wednesday seeking an injunction against Harrison

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Utah governor OK’s bill banning gender-affirming health care

Violin02/02/2023 62 Views

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican governor on Saturday signed bills that ban youth from receiving gender-affirming health care and allow families to receive scholarships to pay for education outside the public school system, both measures that are part of larger nationwide movements.

Gov. Spencer Cox, who had not taken a public position on the transgender care measure, signed it a day after the Legislature sent it to his desk. Utah’s measure prohibits transgender surgery for youth and disallows hormone treatments for minors who have not yet been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The state’s Republican-dominated Legislature prioritized the ban

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Manitoba family moving to BC for better health care

Violin14/01/2023 96 Views

A Winnipeg family frustrated over the state of health care in Manitoba is moving to BC in search of better care.

The family’s journey in the health care system started when 56-year-old Devina Gracia Perez needed brain surgery last May. A high risk for the surgery, she had a stroke partially paralyzing her left side and right eye.

A few days later, she was sent from the Health Sciences Center (HSC) to Concordia Hospital for rehab.

Her husband, Donald Perez, wasn’t allowed to be with her due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the hospital but said he noticed she was

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Should You Invest in the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH)?

Violin13/01/2023 47 Views

Looking for broad exposure to the Healthcare – Broad segment of the equity market? You should consider the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 04/07/2010.

Retail and institutional investors are increasingly turning to passively managed ETFs because they offer low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency; these kinds of funds are also excellent vehicles for long term investors.

Investor-friendly, sector ETFs provide many options to gain low risk and diversify exposure to a broad group of companies in particular sectors. Healthcare – Broad is one of the 16 broad Zacks sectors

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