You probably know that being Black or Brown in America comes with additional health risks. The enduring harms of racial inequality mean that people of color have higher rates of heart disease, ...
Many patients are at “greater risk of leg amputations” after their Pennsylvania doctor provided invasive and medically unnecessary procedures as part of a $6.5 million insurance scam, according to ...
SALINE COUNTY, Ark. (KTHV) - A Hot Springs woman has been through three different amputations on the same leg and one doctor in Saline County said none of them were even necessary. 61-year-old Corina ...
The forthcoming edition of BET’s monthly newsmagazine “America in Black” will feature a heart-wrenching investigative piece on unnecessary amputations. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Wesley Lowery ...
In my years as a patient advocate, I’ve had countless conversations with healthcare executives about the economics of limb preservation versus amputation. During one particularly candid exchange at a ...
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Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness Month urges screening and advocacy in national effort to prevent amputations
September is Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month, a time to take action against a disease that affects more than 10 million Americans and is the largest cause of nontraumatic amputations ...
Many of the Pennsylvania doctor’s patients were “treated under the pretense that doing so would ‘save the leg’ from amputation,” authorities said. Hush Naidoo Jade Photography via Unsplash Many ...
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