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ICYMI Health features what editors at The Huffington Post are reading this week. This week, we focused on reading stories about the high cost of medical expenses, including an in-depth essay on what researchers call “low-value care" -- the unnecessary tests and procedures that burden America's health care system and can harm patients' health. In a different report, the escalating and high costs of medical rescue helicopters, an unexpected expense that isn't covered by insurance, have left some airlifted patients wishing they'd never been rescued at all. And in the wake of an unexpected death on the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," a psychiatrist explains why we grieve TV characters who we know aren't real -- intellectually, at least. Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read and love this week? 1. You or Someone You Love Menstruates -- Here's What You Need to Know About It -- Quartz Everything about how women in developing countries deal with menstruation in "girl-unfriendly schools" to period myths to the high financial costs -- sometimes called the pink tax -- associated with feminine products. Quote: "How can a normal, natural function be associated with shame, stigma, distaste, untouchability, taboo?" 2. Overkill -- The New Yorker Unnecessary medical care is likely harming Americans -- and the country's bottom line. Quote: "We've assumed, he says, that cancers are all like rabbits that you want to catch before they escape the barnyard pen. But som...
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