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Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front...

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

Medika Life - April 21, 2025

In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re on fire. Specialists recommended a series of infusions to ease her pain, but her insurer refused to pay for the expensive treatment, which it says is “not considered medically necessary.”

The Forgotten in Mental Health Facilities Do Have a Few Advocates

Pat Farrell PhD - December 22, 2021

Psychiatry has not a checkered past but a past that must push all of us into a more enlightened future. Relating the past, just...

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