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Is physical therapy the answer to the chronic pain crisis? A cardiologist recounts his journey

After I hurt my back during medical school while working out in the gym, I initially had hoped that it would take the path most such injuries had in the past: It would be most severe in the beginning but then hopefully dissipate over time. I would have no such luck this time for my injury never got better, the pain never died and I essentially became bedridden.

Coronavirus Files: Virus continues to evolve, while hospitals on edge as extra dollars disappear

Safety-net hospitals, which provide care regardless of patient’s ability to pay, received a sorely needed financial boost during the pandemic thanks to billions in emergency federal funds.

California’s massive new experiment will change how vulnerable patients get care. Will it work?

California is embarking on a potentially transformative shift in the way it delivers health care, using its Medicaid program to help meet the social needs of many of its most vulnerable residents.

Coronavirus Files: COVID funds hit another stumbling block as FDA deliberates on boosters

Communities in lower-income U.S. counties suffered twice the COVID-19 death rate of wealthier American counties according to a new Poor People’s Pandemic Report, writes Ed Pilkington at The Guardian. 

Coronavirus Files: Boosters hold up against omicron but Black Americans hit hard in winter surge

Recent data indicates that during the winter surge, non-Hispanic Black adults were hospitalized at higher rates than any other ethnic group, at any time in the pandemic, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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