A new Texas law will give regulators more power to crack down on dentists performing unnecessary treatments, especially on children. A spokesman for the bill’s author — Republican State Rep. Lois W. Kolkhorst of Brenham, Texas — said the law came about largely because of a joint investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and […]
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One of the credit card companies used to finance expensive medical and dental-care treatments has been ordered to pay millions in compensation for misleading consumers. Watch Dollars and Dentists, a joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity. CareCredit, a subsidiary of GE Capital Retail Bank, must refund up to $34.1 million to […]
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Update, April 3, 2014: Small Smiles will no longer be allowed to serve patients on Medicaid started Sept. 30, affecting hundreds of thousands of children, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services announced today. CSHM LLL, which owns the management company serving Small Smiles, said it doesn’t plan to appeal the […]
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The killings of an Ebola education team illustrate yet another horror of the disease: Not all of the dangers are viral. Eight bodies, three of them belonging to journalists, were found in a remote part of southeastern Guinea after an attack on a team trying to teach people about the virus, Reuters reported. Government spokesman Albert Camara […]
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The issue of travel bans dominated a congressional panel on Ebola on Thursday, as members of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations pressed officials on why travel restrictions were not in place for passengers coming from the affected countries in West Africa. The hearing came as the World Health Organization predicted that the death toll from the […]
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End-of-life care isn’t a subject that usually dominates media headlines. But over the past few weeks, the story of Brittany Maynard — a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer who has chosen to end her life on Nov. 1 rather than allow the disease to progress — has stirred a national conversation about death […]
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Why Is It So Hard for Doctors to Talk to Patients About Death?
by PBS June 10, 2016Dr. Atul Gawande just wanted to give a patient some hope. But he ended up saying something he would regret. In FRONTLINE’s new film Being Mortal, Gawande remembers treating Sara Monopoli, a woman who was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer at 34, in the ninth month of her pregnancy. After giving birth to a […]
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“What are the fears that you have? What are the goals that you have? What’s more important to you than anything — besides living longer?” Those were among the difficult questions surgeon and writer Atul Gawande and his mother asked his ailing father, who had been diagnosed with a tumor in his spinal cord. “He […]