Getty Image In predictable fashion, Elon Musk has been lashing out at Don Lemon. The former CNN journalist revealed that Musk had abruptly ended a multi-million dollar publishing deal for The Don Lemon Show after a testy interview where Musk was asked about his ketamine use and failure to moderate hate speech on Twitter. Somehow, …
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Strippers At A Los Angeles Bar Are Turning To Actors Equity To Form The First Such Union In Over 25 Years
YouTube / FOX 11 Los Angeles Unions have been all the rage for the last handful of years now, with attempts being made in industries like video game design and car-share driving to Amazon. Now add strippers to the list. As per The Wrap, employees at a Los Angeles have filed a petition with the …
Khloe Kardashian And Private Equity Investor Split
It’s also being reported that Khloé Kardashian has split from the private equity investor she was dating. Khloé had reportedly been dating the mystery man since June, but according to an E! News source, things “slowly fizzled out over the last few weeks.” The news comes on the heels of Khloé welcoming her second baby …
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Global health equity champion Paul Farmer was a great doctor, but an even better human being
You can often tell a lot about a person’s life by how the world responds to their death. Over the weekend, when I started seeing a flood of social media messages from healthcare professionals that included words like “devastated” and “gutted,” it was clear that someone of influence in the medical world had passed. I’m …
Report Shows How to Reach Health Care Equity, Why It Matters
Feb. 2, 2022 — Dejuan Patterson was returning home from work one night when he was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head. Seventeen years old, he was left to die. Although doctors saved his life, the Baltimore native, who’s now 33, questions the treatment he received from the hospital. He had surgery and …
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Nonprofit Addresses Health Equity by Providing Safer Surgeries
COMMENTARY By Susannah Schaefer, executive vice chair, president, and chief executive officer of Smile Train As the global health care community considers how to create health care systems that work for everyone – including the most vulnerable among us – a topic that sparks widespread conversation is health equity. Health equity means everyone having …
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HIV Prevention Has An Equity Problem. Here’s What Needs to Change
Michael Chancley, communications director, PrEP4All, and PrEP user. AIDSVu.org: “Local Data: Louisiana.” CDC.gov: “HIV and Women: HIV Diagnoses,” “HIV Surveillance Data Tables. Table 3a,” “PrEP Effectiveness,” FDA.gov: “FDA Approves First Injectable Treatment for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis,” Dec. 20, 2021, “FDA approves second drug to prevention HIV infection as part of ongoing efforts to end the …
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