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Healthcare Making a Difference: Virginia’s Free Clinics Resilient Despite Pandemic Challenges

A recent survey found 76% of Virginia free and charitable clinics saw an increase in patients, while 40% experienced a decrease in staff and volunteers.

Amie Knowles Amie Knowles January 13, 2022 2:37 pm EST
Health FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a patient receives an influenza vaccine in Mesquite, Texas. Amid all the focus on COVID-19 vaccinations, U.S. health experts have another plea: Don’t skip your flu shot. With U.S. schools and businesses reopened, international travel resuming and far less masking this fall, flu is likely to make a comeback. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Health Flu Season: What Virginians Need To Know

What do Virginians need to know about the current flu season? That it's still not too late to get a flu shot!

Amie Knowles Amie Knowles December 28, 2021 2:00 pm EST
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Healthcare UVA Warns That While Fighting COVID-19, We’re Ignoring Other Vaccines

CHARLOTTESVILLE - It's easy to forget, but the COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only one some people need to take.

Amie Knowles Amie Knowles June 1, 2021 7:54 am EDT
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Elections Biden Has Detailed Plans That Could Help Women in America. Trump Has Nothing.

How the two campaigns differ on health policy, plans for child care, and violence against women.

Elle Meyers Elle Meyers August 19, 2020 1:26 pm EDT
Coronavirus Buffy Riley, right, and one of the nurses she works with treating patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in New York wear masks made by Eau Claire resident Deb Peterson and sent to Riley. Nurses at many New York hospitals said they lack enough masks and other personal protective equipment. (Photo by Buffy Riley)
Coronavirus ‘Death Feels Like It Will Go on Forever’

Part 4: Wisconsin nurse treating coronavirus patients in New York

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 14, 2020 8:29 pm EDT

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Martin Luther King Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd before the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. The widely quoted speech became one of his most famous. Commentary Rashid: Dr. King, Not Joe Manchin, Was Right About the Filibuster
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Healthcare Trump Doesn’t Think There’s A Medical Supply Shortage. These Hospitals Beg to Differ.

An internal government report released Monday contradicts President Trump’s assessment that hospital administrators are “thrilled to be where they are.”

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil April 7, 2020 8:00 am EDT