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The operators of health centers, and the clients they serve who have HIV or AIDS, say a change that Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make to a drug benefit plan could end key services for society's most vulnerable people.
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Pediatric emergency physician Gregory Conners and child psychologist Jennifer Rapke discuss the mental health crisis facing children, adolescents and their families. Fertility researcher Kazim Chohan explains whether the COVID-19 virus or the vaccine has any effect on fertility for women and men.
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This week on HealthLink on Air: Surgeon Joseph Valentino explains how inflammatory bowel disease is diagnosed and treated. Education specialist Nicky Ruszkowski tells about pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV transmission. And neurologist Shahram Izadyar goes over how surgery and neurostimulators can help adults with epilepsy. Listen this Sunday, September 19 at 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. for more.
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The brand-name version of the once-daily pill that is 99% effective at preventing HIV used to cost upwards of $1,800 a month. Federal guidance now makes getting the drug with insurance cheaper.
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Throughout the pandemic, we heard about herd immunity as a strategy to protect public health. In this "HealthLink on Air" segment, Dr. Stephen Thomas…
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In 1987, NPR's Patricia Neighmond first profiled Archie Harrison, a young man living with HIV. What followed was a year of highs and lows, of recovery and acceptance.
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Around 1,800 kidney transplants in the United States each year involve children or adolescents under the age of 18 -- and some of those surgeries take…
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Modern medicine does not have many examples of dietary changes that can be more effective than a pharmacological treatment. In this week's "HealthLink on…
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People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.
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A single injection of a drug called cabotegravir given every two months has been shown to be more effective than a daily oral dose of Truvada.