Mon.Dec 23, 2024

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'May love rest gently in your broken heart': What to say to a grieving friend

NPR Health

When a good friend's loved one passes away, it can be hard to find the right thing to say. NPR readers share words of comfort they've shared with others or wish they'd heard themselves.

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Home-like respite stay is new alternative to psychiatric hospitalization in Raleigh

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. Its called a peer-run respite house; its the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina. Its designed to provide a peaceful, home-like setting where people who are experiencing behavioral health issues can stay for up to 10 nights and receive support from trained peer support spe

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Patients are frustrated that there isn't a reliable treatment yet for long COVID

NPR Health

Much of the NIH-funded research on long COVID has focused on observing and understanding the disease. Some patients and doctors say the research should pivot toward finding new treatments and drugs.

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Groundbreaking technology converts cancer cells into normal cells

News Medical Health Sciences

Despite the development of numerous cancer treatment technologies, the common goal of current cancer therapies is to eliminate cancer cells.

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How prior insurance authorization affects physicians and the care they give patients

NPR Health

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization.

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New eye drop treatment offers hope for dry AMD patients

News Medical Health Sciences

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in individuals over 65, characterized by abnormal changes in the macular, resulting in reduced vision and distorted objects.

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