Health Headlines for Monday, July 24

New York’s Great Health Care Debate

City & State

With the Obamacare debate still raging on Capitol Hill, two leading health care experts had a debate of their own, over the creation of a single-payer system here in New York.

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HIV fight advances with new drug cocktails, fresh vaccine hopes

Reuters

Three decades after approval of the first-ever AIDS treatment, HIV medicine is seeing a new wave of innovation with scientists reporting positive data on Monday for improved drug cocktails and a novel experimental vaccine.

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Parents often make follow-up care mistakes after kids leave hospital

Reuters

When sick kids leave the hospital, parents often don’t understand what follow-up care is needed or how to give children medicine at home, a research review suggests.

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Single-payer won’t solve health care problems

Lockport Union-Sun and Journal

Democrats in Albany have been touting a mind-bogging universal health care plan which they claim would not only would cost nothing more but it might make the Empire State $45 billion richer.

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Clinical trials for cancer could use more older people

Washington Post

More than 60 percent of cancer patients are older adults — and that will rise to 70 percent by 2040. Yet seniors are underrepresented in clinical trials, making it difficult to assess how treatments are likely to help or harm them.

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The Subtle Signs of a Thyroid Disorder

New York Times

Problems with estrogen and testosterone, the body’s main sex hormones, tend to attract widespread public interest.

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