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access
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Amid turmoil in Baltimore, a story of hidden health care gaps
Images streaming from the recent unrest in Baltimore showed parts of a city in flames, buildings in ruins and turmoil…
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Momentum grows to establish dental therapists; what about your state?
Mid-level dental providers are at work in countries from the United Kingdom to Malaysia. Here in the United States, advocates…
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People with disabilities face barriers to get dental treatment
We’ve read about the difficulties of getting dental care to patients in nursing homes and other institutions. People living with…
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In global struggle to care for aging populations, plenty of room for improvement
Compared with other industrialized nations, patients age 65 or older in the U.S. are generally in poorer overall health and…
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Radio series looks beyond medical care for New York’s least healthy county
The Bronx has ranked as the least-healthy county in New York State for several years running. The news team at…
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Editorial: No reason to artificially constrain supply of dental practitioners
In a recent editorial, The Washington Post endorsed the licensing of dental therapists to expand care to millions of Americans…
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Mo. journalist shows how undocumented immigrants struggle for care under ACA
When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, Tammy Worth, an award-winning freelance health and business writer in Kansas City,…
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Kansas reporter shares rural perspective on access to dental care
Along with coverage of everything from Congressional wrangling over the Farm Bill to livestock management to wildlife conservation, High Plains/Midwest Ag…
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Dental tourism: Americans leaving the country for oral health care
Experts say many thousands of Americans are now going abroad for dental care. The growing phenomenon of dental tourism is…
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Mo. journalist reminds us that reform does little to improve actual delivery of care
“Health Policy” is the term we use to describe the changes being made to the U.S. health care system under…