How Being Poor Makes You Sick. Some patients are being "prescribed" bicycles and groceries as doctors attempt to treat the lifestyle consequences of poverty, in addition to its medical symptoms.

Poor, sick and still traveling long distances for health care in D.C. September 19, 2017. On health-care issues in the District, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) ...

My dad is a poor, sick immigrant. It didn’t take a pandemic to put him in peril. I fear he will die alone from the cancer that ravaged him before anyone noticed. April 16, 2020.

Poor, Chronically Sick, Unemployed Most Likely to Lose Coverage if ACA Repealed, Study Finds. The demographics of who's most at risk of losing health care coverage.

S.F. lawyer accused of defrauding poor, sick / He's arrested, charged with stealing $2 million in money won for clients By Stacy Finz , Chronicle Staff Writer July 16, 2003 ...

Sick (And Poor) In Massachusetts: Longer Waits, Less Satisfied Patients . June 11, 2012. Rachel Zimmerman (Harvard School of Public Health/WBUR/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ...

People in poor counties died of COVID-19 at two times the rate of people in wealthier counties. Experts said the pandemic has highlighted long-standing racial disparities, including poor access to ...

The Poor and the Sick What Cholera and Ebola Have in Common Fran Quigley October 19, 2014 . A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, ...

Aug. 4, 2011— -- Poor, a victim of child molestation and pregnant from rape, young Elaine Riddick went into a North Carolina hospital in 1968 to give birth to her son.Though she wouldn't know ...

Once, a sick day was just that — a day away from work to focus on recovery (or at least pretend to: Think “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”). But in recent years, it has become something murkier ...