Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.
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A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Mobile coverage in rural areas could get worse before it gets better, leaving vulnerable many who rely on cell phones during emergencies.
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A crisis is looming in upstate New York unless cities like Binghamton can do a better job of recruiting doctors, according to a recent report.
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Doctors eager to pare back their hours and find more time for themselves and their families are helping fuel an &quot;alarming&quot; trend toward even greater doctor shortages, concludes a major new study.
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Memphis - In a season of shortage... finally, some good news. Yvonne Madlock with the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department says, &quot;Yes, it is great news.
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A new report from the Canadian Medical Association on Canada&#39;s doctor shortage suggests that Canada would need 4700 new doctors if the doctors who currently work over 60 hours a week stopped doing so. The report also suggest that if Canada followed the EU ...
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Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash.
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Patients in rural communities across Georgia soon will have quick access to big-city medical specialists thanks to a live-video hookup that will serve 36 rural hospitals.
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Fewer American doctors are focusing on primary care, but the decline is being covered by physicians from other countries. The General Accountability Office said Tuesday that as of 2006 there were 22,146 American doctors in residency programs in the United States specializing in primary care.
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Nearly half of District residents, many with chronic diseases, live in areas with a critical shortage of doctors to provide basic care.
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Growing number of U.S. families beset by medical problems are exceeding lifetime benefits caps.
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The federal government predicted Monday that the supply of doctors who specialize in treating critically ill patients probably won't keep up with the demand of the country's aging population.
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An influx of doctors lured to Texas by new limits on malpractice lawsuits has overwhelmed the state board that screens candidates for medical licenses, creating a backlog that forces many applicants to wait months before they can start seeing patients.
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It is rare for a foreign doctor to get to China&#39;s rural areas, where its AIDS epidemic was born and takes a horrible toll. But recently, two nurses and I ventured into a poor farming area, Nizui
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A shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives around the globe is threatening health initiatives and could have dire political and economic consequences, public health experts said on Friday.
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The grants aim to test the idea that diseases such as trachoma and hookworm, which largely afflict the rural poor, can be tackled together more effectively than one at a time.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially