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What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany’s former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here’s why.

New U.S. doctors aren’t choosing to specialize in infectious disease, despite the clear need. In 2022, 44% of the training programs went unfilled. The pay is relatively low, and the hours are long.

A major drug maker has applied to sell Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses, over the counter. Addiction experts say making Narcan widely available is a crucial next step to stop fentanyl deaths.

The pandemic put infectious diseases doctors in the spotlight. The ‘Fauci Effect’ raised the number of fellowship applicants in 2020, but this year almost half of the training programs went unfilled.

The winners confronted stigma and health equity in some countries with their tech ideas to help LGBTQI+ youth reach out for help and let women access private OB-GYN care.

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn’t produce billing records for care they said they’d provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

NPR’s Michel Martin Speaks with Dr. Madeline Li about how Canada is set to expand the categories of those who can request medical assistance to end their lives to include people with mental illness.

It’s been almost six months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, abortion funds, which help people pay for the procedure, have had to navigate a new legal reality.

The lack of nursing home beds means that U.S. hospitals are caring for patients who don’t need to be hospitalized but have nowhere else to go.

When health bills aren’t legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can’t know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.