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Limited Cancer Care Access in Morocco Exposes Systemic Healthcare Inequalities
In Morocco, despite reduced medicine prices, access to cancer treatment remains limited, forcing patients to travel to a few hospitals in Casablanca and Rabat, causing hardship and overcrowding, while a woman's initiative to provide shelter highlights the problem.
Limited Cancer Care Access in Morocco Exposes Systemic Healthcare Inequalities
In Morocco, despite reduced medicine prices, access to cancer treatment remains limited, forcing patients to travel to a few hospitals in Casablanca and Rabat, causing hardship and overcrowding, while a woman's initiative to provide shelter highlights the problem.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Nigeria's Maternal Mortality Crisis: 75,000 Deaths Annually"
In Nigeria, a woman dies every seven minutes during childbirth due to factors like insufficient medical personnel, inadequate healthcare facilities, high treatment costs, and cultural practices hindering access to care; this accounts for 29% of global maternal deaths.
Nigeria's Maternal Mortality Crisis: 75,000 Deaths Annually"
In Nigeria, a woman dies every seven minutes during childbirth due to factors like insufficient medical personnel, inadequate healthcare facilities, high treatment costs, and cultural practices hindering access to care; this accounts for 29% of global maternal deaths.
Progress
44% Bias Score
Death of Russian Woman Highlights Healthcare System Failures
Tatiana Drozdova, a 23-year-old Russian woman with ADA-TKIN, died after a protracted legal battle to secure a 50 million ruble drug that was not delivered in time, highlighting systemic failures in healthcare access.
Death of Russian Woman Highlights Healthcare System Failures
Tatiana Drozdova, a 23-year-old Russian woman with ADA-TKIN, died after a protracted legal battle to secure a 50 million ruble drug that was not delivered in time, highlighting systemic failures in healthcare access.
Progress
56% Bias Score
Infant Mortality Rate Rises in Multiple EU Countries
The infant mortality rate increased in at least eight EU countries in 2024, with Romania and France showing significant rises, exceeding the EU average; contributing factors include staff shortages, maternity ward closures, increasing maternal age, and geographic inequalities in healthcare access.
Infant Mortality Rate Rises in Multiple EU Countries
The infant mortality rate increased in at least eight EU countries in 2024, with Romania and France showing significant rises, exceeding the EU average; contributing factors include staff shortages, maternity ward closures, increasing maternal age, and geographic inequalities in healthcare access.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Nigeria: One Maternal Death Every Seven Minutes"
Nigeria has the world's highest maternal mortality rate, with one woman dying every seven minutes due to preventable causes like postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labor, and unsafe abortions, exacerbated by poor infrastructure, healthcare worker shortages, and high costs.
Nigeria: One Maternal Death Every Seven Minutes"
Nigeria has the world's highest maternal mortality rate, with one woman dying every seven minutes due to preventable causes like postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labor, and unsafe abortions, exacerbated by poor infrastructure, healthcare worker shortages, and high costs.
Progress
44% Bias Score
Declining Insurance Payments Push U.S. Physicians Out of Private Practice
The number of U.S. physicians in private practice has dropped to 42.2% due to cuts in insurance payments and increasing administrative burdens, impacting patient care access; proposed further cuts to Medicare and Medicaid could worsen this.
Declining Insurance Payments Push U.S. Physicians Out of Private Practice
The number of U.S. physicians in private practice has dropped to 42.2% due to cuts in insurance payments and increasing administrative burdens, impacting patient care access; proposed further cuts to Medicare and Medicaid could worsen this.
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40% Bias Score
Nigeria's Dire Maternal Mortality Crisis: 75,000 Deaths Annually
Nigeria faces a critical healthcare crisis with 75,000 maternal deaths annually (one every 7 minutes), caused by poor infrastructure, insufficient healthcare workers, unaffordable treatment, and traditional beliefs hindering access to care, despite government initiatives like the Mamii program.
Nigeria's Dire Maternal Mortality Crisis: 75,000 Deaths Annually
Nigeria faces a critical healthcare crisis with 75,000 maternal deaths annually (one every 7 minutes), caused by poor infrastructure, insufficient healthcare workers, unaffordable treatment, and traditional beliefs hindering access to care, despite government initiatives like the Mamii program.
Progress
48% Bias Score
EU Infant Mortality Rises Amid Healthcare Shortages
Infant mortality rates rose in at least eight EU countries in 2024, with Romania and France showing the sharpest increases, exceeding the EU average of 3.3 deaths per 1,000 live births; factors include increased maternal age, higher multiple births, and unequal healthcare access; healthcare worker s...
EU Infant Mortality Rises Amid Healthcare Shortages
Infant mortality rates rose in at least eight EU countries in 2024, with Romania and France showing the sharpest increases, exceeding the EU average of 3.3 deaths per 1,000 live births; factors include increased maternal age, higher multiple births, and unequal healthcare access; healthcare worker s...
Progress
44% Bias Score
FBI Seeks Reports on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, Sparking Legal and Ethical Debate
The FBI is asking Americans to report medical providers who perform gender-affirming surgeries on minors, claiming it is child mutilation—an action that lacks legal backing and is criticized for intimidating medical professionals and families. This is part of the Trump administration's broader anti-...
FBI Seeks Reports on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, Sparking Legal and Ethical Debate
The FBI is asking Americans to report medical providers who perform gender-affirming surgeries on minors, claiming it is child mutilation—an action that lacks legal backing and is criticized for intimidating medical professionals and families. This is part of the Trump administration's broader anti-...
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76% Bias Score
FBI Seeks Tips on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, Raising Legal Concerns
The FBI requested information on providers of gender-affirming care to minors, prompting criticism for lacking legal basis and potentially harming transgender youth; this action is part of a broader Trump administration effort against transgender rights, facing legal challenges.
FBI Seeks Tips on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, Raising Legal Concerns
The FBI requested information on providers of gender-affirming care to minors, prompting criticism for lacking legal basis and potentially harming transgender youth; this action is part of a broader Trump administration effort against transgender rights, facing legal challenges.
Progress
64% Bias Score
Preventable Maternal Deaths Highlight Nigeria's Healthcare Crisis
Chinenye Nweze's death from postpartum hemorrhage in Onitsha, Nigeria, highlights the country's alarmingly high maternal mortality rate, caused by factors such as inadequate healthcare infrastructure, staff shortages, and cultural barriers, exacerbated by insufficient government funding, resulting i...
Preventable Maternal Deaths Highlight Nigeria's Healthcare Crisis
Chinenye Nweze's death from postpartum hemorrhage in Onitsha, Nigeria, highlights the country's alarmingly high maternal mortality rate, caused by factors such as inadequate healthcare infrastructure, staff shortages, and cultural barriers, exacerbated by insufficient government funding, resulting i...
Progress
44% Bias Score
Misdiagnosis of Newborn Leads to Costly Life-Saving Surgery in Russia
Aylin Aıtmagombet, a newborn, was misdiagnosed with Hirschsprung's disease in Almaty, Kazakhstan, leading to multiple unsuccessful surgeries. A St. Petersburg doctor diagnosed ileal atresia and stenosis, requiring a costly surgery (over 700,000 rubles) that the family cannot afford.
Misdiagnosis of Newborn Leads to Costly Life-Saving Surgery in Russia
Aylin Aıtmagombet, a newborn, was misdiagnosed with Hirschsprung's disease in Almaty, Kazakhstan, leading to multiple unsuccessful surgeries. A St. Petersburg doctor diagnosed ileal atresia and stenosis, requiring a costly surgery (over 700,000 rubles) that the family cannot afford.
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52% Bias Score
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