Illicit cigarettes worth nearly R7 million were found hidden in a petrol tanker on Monday. An elaborate scheme to smuggle millions of rands worth of illicit cigarettes in what appeared to be a petrol tanker went up in smoke on Monday. Limpopo police arrested two people, aged 36 and 44, for allegedly hauling illicit cigarettes worth nearly…
File Photo: Patients, some HIV-positive, and their relatives protest for the lack of medicines and medical supplies in hospitals, in front of the Health Ministry in Caracas on April 18, 2018.Luis Robayo | AFP | Getty ImagesMore than 70 countries warned they are at risk of running out of HIV medication due to the coronavirus…
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him