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- U.S. sees shameful rise in ‘maternity care deserts,’ study finds
- U.S. toughens law to ensure patients’ full access to their medical records
- A newly diagnosed apnea patient finds healthy sleep costly and treatment aids questionable
- Pro sports show seamy sides in mistreating women and head trauma
- Insurers buck-raking big time off Medicare Advantage
- U.S. launches new campaign to end hunger and improve nutrition
- Medicare premium fix fails to deal with deeper problems at FDA
- Rethinking urgent care after vehicle wrecks (and one simple way to stay safe on a bicycle)
- Big hospitals’ buck-raking schemes exploit poor and pile on medical debt
- MDs should screen most adults for anxiety, top U.S. advisory panel says
- Hollywood puts appearances above all in fad injections of diabetes drug
- Sexually transmitted diseases are spiking at alarming rate, experts warn
- Appellate judges zero in on corporate twists of bankruptcy shield
- Some sensible guidance on exercise, diet, sleep and weight gain
- It’s past time for Congress to reconsider propriety of FDA ‘user fees’
- Strike by 15,000 in Minnesota a clear sign of growing crisis in nursing
- Two U.S. regulatory agencies rip nursing homes for sketchy debt collection
- $439 million settlement shows Big Tobacco sees riches still in vaping
- When Big Pharma opens its big checkbook, life-saving disclosures vanish
- Hospital shielded heart surgeon with 21 malpractice claims, probe finds
- U.S. judge cites religious freedoms in striking down insurance coverage for HIV drugs
- White House conference, first in 50 years, will focus on diet and nutrition
- Risks rising for little kids ingesting button- and lithium coin-batteries
- Medicine struggles with hype, disinformation, and miscommunication
- With Omicron vaccines approved, U.S. pushes for fall flu and Covid shots
- Don’t get in an injury pickle by overdoing trendy games
- Gen Z becomes stoner generation with record-high pot and hallucinogen use
- $1.7 billion verdict underscores complexity of vehicle liability cases
- As U.S. gears up for fall pandemic battles, a disease-fighting leader retires
- Listen up: Lower-cost hearing aids, finally, are an option for millions without a prescription
- Ask the doctors and they’ll fess up: MD misbehavior occurs too often
- 3 giant drug store chains hit with $650-million judgment for opioid harms
- Chief launches CDC shakeup, citing ponderous agency’s pandemic flubs
- Beware of heat and head trauma as young athletes prepare for fall sports
- Rollout will take time for Democrats’ big act on health, climate and taxes
- When claims of harms rise, more corporations are diving into bankruptcy
- Coronavirus guidelines ease, as concerns persist about polio, monkey pox and flu
- D.C. drivers need to learn a key safety lesson: Slow down near schools
- Diabetes drugs that cause weight loss find plus-size online demand
- With 350 lawsuits filed, hospital now can’t ignore outcry over orthopedist
- Senate panel assails transplant system for causing deaths and disease
- A top FDA tobacco expert suddenly quits — to work for Big Tobacco
- Big Pharma’s rough summer could be a boon for struggling patients
- When admitting a loved one to a nursing home, be sure to read what you sign (because you could be sued later)
- Hospitals’ ‘charity’: 2.3% of patient revenue vs. $60 billion in tax breaks
- Opioid drug overdose crisis is ripping up communities of color
- Obamacare coverage rates to increase 10% next year, early data hints, while top medical executives rake in massive pay
- Big shakeups under way in much-criticized U.S. health agencies
- WHO chief declares monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency
- Heart association adds a new safeguard to its list: a good night’s sleep
- U.S. launches 988 hotline for callers with mental health emergencies
- Superbug deaths & antibiotic abuse surged during pandemic
- As medical costs, especially for cancer, slam patients, where’s Congress?
- Don’t just sit or wait on Big Pharma. Modify your risks against dementia.
- As road toll soars, experts see vehicles as ‘candy stores’ of distraction
- Popular, costly knee injections little better than placebo, big study finds
- U.S. nears next health insurance cliff with affordability crisis growing
