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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.”

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Medika Life - May 13, 2021

The flawed design of the New York Health Act would be felt most acutely by low-income New Yorkers, a new FREOPP study finds. This Single-Payer Health

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Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 23, 2021

Texas Governor Greg Abbott seems determined to deny women the right to proper health care by banning abortion when the fetus is older than six weeks

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Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - July 9, 2023

Humanity Has Always Found How to Co-Exist with Technological Advances — Have We Met Our Match?

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