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Patria y Vida: Reflecting from Medical School on Cuba’s Uprising

September 15, 2021

Dianela Perdomo, a medical student and Cuban immigrant, shares her perspective on Cuba’s recent wave of anti-government protests.

Dianela Perdomo ⋅ A Day in the Life Access to Medicine, covid-19, human rights, public health ⋅

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A Life or Debt Decision: Tackling Unaffordable Drug Prices in Maryland

January 28, 2019

I first became concerned about unaffordable drug prices when I did one of my first-year research rotations in a lab that studied the hepatitis C virus. The timing of my rotation was in the midst of the (continuing) hepatitis C epidemic and just after the development of Harvoni, an exorbitantly expensive cure ($50,000–$100,000). I learned […]

Talia Henkle ⋅ Perspectives in Research Access to Medicine, affordable care, drug prices, healthcare costs, prescription drugs ⋅

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