Browsing: Conditions

The story of a child diagnosed with a rare syndrome moves the world, but hides a fact that almost no one imagines: a rare disease is not synonymous with an isolated case. Combined, these conditions affect a multitude of people in Brazil and around the world, in a public health portrait updated in 2023. According…

Wellpath, the private health contractor providing healthcare treatment at Santa Barbara County’s jails at annual cost of $26 million, reported a dramatic increase — 68 percent — in the number of inmates enrolled in Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) for addiction issues in both county jails in the past year. MAT refers to treatments in which…