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In nursing homes and hospices, too little oversight, too much profiteering
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Botched. Belabored. Enough already. Fix the FDA and Philips recall
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Pandemic and respiratory ills are taking a broad and terrible toll
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Keep this holiday season merry, bright — and as safe as possible
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As STD epidemic rages, the sexually active scorn a familiar protection
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Cautions increase on link between problem pregnancies and heart disease
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College sports organization prevails in an early, difficult case on head injuries
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As marijuana gains wide acceptance, new study details health concerns
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Giving many thanks on yet another holiday fraught with health concerns
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Nursing homes reckon with big suits and prospect of tough staffing rules
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Walmart, with $3.1 billion plan, joins big pharmacies in settling opioid suits
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A busy holidays reminder: It’s use-it-or-lose-it time with health savings accounts
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Big Tobacco may talk of transitions. Its pursuit of profits speaks louder.
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Hospitals assailed for Emergency Department crush, causing long, risky waits for patients
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Voters got their say on major health concerns in 2022 midterms
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For beleaguered consumers, key health information is deceptive or scant
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FDA knew of, but didn’t act on little devices’ deadly racial problems
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Nation’s biggest drug stores seek to settle opioid suits for $10 billion
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U.S. research offers sobering look at lethal damage caused by alcohol
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NBA star has low-key, savvy, and compassionate way to help sick kids
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Fungi posing bigger health risks, as drugs’ potency wanes, experts warn
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Buckling up and buckling down: D.C. is failing on 2024 road safety goal
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Seasonal flu hitting early and hard, increasing fears of ‘tripledemic’
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Cheaper hearing aids finally go on sale, without prescriptions
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U.S. Surgeon General’s novel prescription? Healthier jobs and workplaces
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A reckoning for FDA fast drug approvals and moms’ mistreatment
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With pandemic persisting, pediatric respiratory cases filling hospitals
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Savvy consumers are getting flu and covid shots (hint, hint)
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Costly colonoscopies get skeptical scrutiny in big European study
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U.S. fixes ACA ‘family glitch’ as insurers start key open enrollment season
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U.S. sees shameful rise in ‘maternity care deserts,’ study finds
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U.S. toughens law to ensure patients’ full access to their medical records
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A newly diagnosed apnea patient finds healthy sleep costly and treatment aids questionable
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Pro sports show seamy sides in mistreating women and head trauma
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Insurers buck-raking big time off Medicare Advantage
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U.S. launches new campaign to end hunger and improve nutrition
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Medicare premium fix fails to deal with deeper problems at FDA
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Rethinking urgent care after vehicle wrecks (and one simple way to stay safe on a bicycle)
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Big hospitals’ buck-raking schemes exploit poor and pile on medical debt
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MDs should screen most adults for anxiety, top U.S. advisory panel says
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Hollywood puts appearances above all in fad injections of diabetes drug
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Sexually transmitted diseases are spiking at alarming rate, experts warn
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Appellate judges zero in on corporate twists of bankruptcy shield
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Some sensible guidance on exercise, diet, sleep and weight gain
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It’s past time for Congress to reconsider propriety of FDA ‘user fees’
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Strike by 15,000 in Minnesota a clear sign of growing crisis in nursing
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Two U.S. regulatory agencies rip nursing homes for sketchy debt collection
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$439 million settlement shows Big Tobacco sees riches still in vaping
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When Big Pharma opens its big checkbook, life-saving disclosures vanish
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Hospital shielded heart surgeon with 21 malpractice claims, probe finds
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U.S. judge cites religious freedoms in striking down insurance coverage for HIV drugs
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White House conference, first in 50 years, will focus on diet and nutrition
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Risks rising for little kids ingesting button- and lithium coin-batteries
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Medicine struggles with hype, disinformation, and miscommunication
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With Omicron vaccines approved, U.S. pushes for fall flu and Covid shots
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Don’t get in an injury pickle by overdoing trendy games
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Gen Z becomes stoner generation with record-high pot and hallucinogen use
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$1.7 billion verdict underscores complexity of vehicle liability cases
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As U.S. gears up for fall pandemic battles, a disease-fighting leader retires
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Listen up: Lower-cost hearing aids, finally, are an option for millions without a prescription
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Ask the doctors and they’ll fess up: MD misbehavior occurs too often
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3 giant drug store chains hit with $650-million judgment for opioid harms
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Chief launches CDC shakeup, citing ponderous agency’s pandemic flubs
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Beware of heat and head trauma as young athletes prepare for fall sports
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Rollout will take time for Democrats’ big act on health, climate and taxes
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When claims of harms rise, more corporations are diving into bankruptcy
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Coronavirus guidelines ease, as concerns persist about polio, monkey pox and flu
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D.C. drivers need to learn a key safety lesson: Slow down near schools
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Diabetes drugs that cause weight loss find plus-size online demand
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With 350 lawsuits filed, hospital now can’t ignore outcry over orthopedist
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Senate panel assails transplant system for causing deaths and disease
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A top FDA tobacco expert suddenly quits — to work for Big Tobacco
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Big Pharma’s rough summer could be a boon for struggling patients
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When admitting a loved one to a nursing home, be sure to read what you sign (because you could be sued later)
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Hospitals’ ‘charity’: 2.3% of patient revenue vs. $60 billion in tax breaks
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Opioid drug overdose crisis is ripping up communities of color
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Obamacare coverage rates to increase 10% next year, early data hints, while top medical executives rake in massive pay
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Big shakeups under way in much-criticized U.S. health agencies
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WHO chief declares monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency
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Heart association adds a new safeguard to its list: a good night’s sleep
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U.S. launches 988 hotline for callers with mental health emergencies
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Superbug deaths & antibiotic abuse surged during pandemic
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As medical costs, especially for cancer, slam patients, where’s Congress?
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Don’t just sit or wait on Big Pharma. Modify your risks against dementia.
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As road toll soars, experts see vehicles as ‘candy stores’ of distraction
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Popular, costly knee injections little better than placebo, big study finds
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U.S. nears next health insurance cliff with affordability crisis growing
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A posthumous diagnosis forces soccer to reconsider risk of head harms
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The U.S. summer of 2022: Infectious outbreaks and vital vaccines
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Health insurers start to join hospitals in giant disclosure of data on prices
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Senators kill big plan to modernize VA care but offer no alternatives
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Enjoy a great Fourth — safely and without dangerous, illicit fireworks
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Billionaire Mark Cuban’s discount drug startup gains serious attention
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FDA bans Juul vaping products and seeks to slash nicotine in cigarettes
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Momentous developments on abortion, guns, and Americans’ health
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Financial punishment is now a built-in aspect of U.S. health care system
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Hidden code leaks private data from hospitals and ‘pregnancy centers’
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U.S. finds high risks in tally of wrecks involving self-driving vehicles
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Covid vaccines Okayed for babies and tots. What will parents do?
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U.S. hits hospitals with a million reasons to heed price-disclosure rule
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Big Pharma, hit for tenfold price hikes, also faces FTC middleman probe
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With medical ‘news’, paying attention to two N’s can matter to nth degree
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More shots coming to battle stubborn, still deadly coronavirus pandemic
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Newer diabetes drugs can lead to weight loss. Wish it was that simple.
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Seniors, overcharged by billions on Medicare, won’t see ’22 refund
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Hospitals also become sites of lethal gun violence
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In celebrity courtroom slugfest, legal glare also falls on expert medical testimony
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Baby formula mess shows big profits, a filthy plant, and bungled oversight
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For UCLA and Southern Baptists, sexual abuse scandals exact big toll
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Focus on surging pandemic dims as two other infections grab headlines
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An advanced democracy can’t shrug at mass deaths, especially kid killings
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Road deaths shatter records, as pedestrian fatalities skyrocket, too
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Social media blamed for fueling opioid crisis for the young
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Hospitals must boost safety efforts and cut low-value (but high-profit) care, experts say
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With pandemic surging again, will protective measures just get ignored?
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Who trusts profit-grabbing companies to prevent perilous supply snafus?
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Hospitals seek to hike prices by up to 15% as safety, quality concerns grow
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Opioid death toll shatters records as judge weighs pharmacy chain penalties
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U.S. mourns 1 million coronavirus deaths. Nearly one in three may have been preventable.
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As pediatricians seek to end race bias in care, a caution on parent burnout
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This could ‘tick off’ red meat lovers: Pest’s bite leads to lasting food allergy
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Patients are imperiled by avoidable drug errors and hit with pricing ploy
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While U.S. moves on, pandemic is inching up and is forecast to worsen
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A major reversal on long-held view of low-dose aspirin’s heart benefits
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As recall of sleep apnea devices expands, U.S. prods firm to act faster
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Banning menthol from cigarettes will save many Black lives, researchers say
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It’s everywhere and nowhere: Coronavirus and the risks that remain for seniors and unvaccinated
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Calories, not clock watching, are key to weight loss, researchers say
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Cautions issued over prenatal genetic tests in IVF and for rare diseases
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Specialized cancer hospitals hike drug costs by up to 630%, study finds
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U.S. finding more and more ways to undercut efforts to quell pandemic
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FDA a giant failure on food safety and nutrition guidance, report finds
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Opioid crisis takes a new scary turn: Mass casualties at once
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U.S. economy really feeling financial crunch of caregivers staying home
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As U.S. shatters death record, trauma and grief grow unrecognized
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Nursing homes in desperate need of giant overhaul, experts say
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CDC, battered by pandemic, will undergo major rethink of its work
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Medicare angers patient groups with limits on Alzheimer’s drug coverage
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New focus on battling long Covid underscores infection’s persistent risk
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DC budgets for major plans to tackle rising problems in road safety
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Big Pharma donates big to GOP lawmakers as drug costs keep rising
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Hedge funds under fire as doctor wins $26 million case on short-staffing
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Even if pandemic lull lasts, more health care challenges are coming
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Alcohol abuse spiked during coronavirus pandemic, killing 100,000
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FDA takes new fire for approving drugs too fast, with too little evidence
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Medical errors can be criminal, Tennesee nurse’s conviction shows
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In pandemic lull, the push is on for shots for kids and older adults
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Good news for patients on credit reports and maybe that Medicare hike
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Patient safety’s new perils: Lack of medical staff and their mental wellness
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For Dept. of Veterans Affairs, an overhaul and time of reckoning on care
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Vaccine makers seek OK for 4th shot as fears rise about another surge
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As ‘synthetic’ nicotine loophole shuts, warnings about cannabis edibles
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Medical debt mires millions in a flood of red ink
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The pandemic may be quieting, but its politics are not.
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Billionaire clan assailed as ‘scum of earth’ in unusual opioids hearing
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Head trauma: A hidden harm for battered women
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Plutocrats up the ante by a few billion to settle a sorry opioids saga
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As masks and other safeguards go off, wariness about virus remains
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U.S. announces crackdown on poor quality and safety in nursing home care
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The people and places hardest hit by the rise in traffic deaths
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Pandemic worsened already shameful U.S. maternal mortality problems
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$26 billion settlement will fund battles against opioid crisis
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Masks off for many: As virus surge ebbs, U.S. issues new guidelines
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Racial bias: Another reason for patients to get and correct their own medical records
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Maryland’s medical examiner crisis is occurring nationwide, too
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Califf confirmed to head FDA as Biden picks interim science advisors
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Health workers hit deadline for coronavirus shots. Where’s the fuss now?
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Let’s hear it for the right to be healthy, careful, safe, and follow science
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What’s really bankrupt? The newest liability dodge by Big Pharma
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Experts still tussle with proper prescribing of opioid painkillers
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UCLA pays $243 million more for gynecologist’s sexual wrongdoing
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In U.S. health care, the relentless pursuit of sky-high profits goes on
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Civil justice system works, as tribes show in major opioid settlements
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As Biden reprises ‘moon shot,’ cancer battle’s constraints are clear, too
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Just ‘live with it’? U.S. pandemic deaths hit 900,000-plus and rising …
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With a ‘Zoom boom’ still going, cautions rise on cosmetic surgery
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U.S. sets high bar in strategy to battle surging road deaths and injuries
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Brain damage in football players is still a big story, and head trauma for surfers is becoming one too
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Deaths no longer a lagging indicator of Omicron variant’s grim toll
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High costs of failures in U.S. food safety simply cannot be ignored
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Financial tangles can trap poorer residents in costly nursing homes
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University of Michigan settles 1,000+ sex abuse claims against dead doctor for $490 million
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As Omicron rips through hospitals, new governor lifts Virginia pandemic measures
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Bone and joint surgery? Consider other options too
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Deadly fires and carbon monoxide deaths emphasize need for winter safety steps
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Medicare curbs Alzheimer’s drug coverage, fueling regulatory turmoil
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U.S. has hit blood crisis and donors needed urgently, Red Cross says
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Vaccine mandate upheld for health workers but not large companies
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Parents beware: Silicon Valley hypes inaccurate prenatal blood tests
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Poor FDA communication harms patients, taxpayers, other agencies
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In latest pandemic surge, nursing home problems hit center stage, again
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Motorists across region need to look in the mirror to improve road safety
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D.C. area slammed hard as winter coronavirus surge blasts the U.S.
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Good news in ’22: Patients mostly see end to ‘surprise’ medical bills
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As life expectancy falls, work is needed in 2022 on substance abuse and road safety
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Hospices a hot investment as profiteers seek a buck to life’s very end
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Senator from small, poor state roils big plan to improve U.S. health
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Omicron tears across country, as Delta rips unvaccinated skeptics
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Women MDs face lifetime pay gap of $2 million less than male colleagues, and patient care suffers as a result
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CO poisoning a rising risk as consumers buy more home generators
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Big Pharma slapped back in two separate tries at buck-raking
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Make the season bright: Get those shots and tests, and stay healthy!
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Nursing homes hide violations with behind-scenes maneuvers
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U.S. panel rips drug prices as ‘unsustainable, unjustifiable, unfair’
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Pandemic is taking terrible toll on mental health, with links to road deaths, overdoses and homicides
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Pandemic toll nears 800,000, as Delta rages and Omicron threatens
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For happy holidays, ensure safety of gifts, decorations, food prep
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Shots and boosters get yet more emphasis as Omicron spreads
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In year-end crunch, Senate weighs Biden plan for health care boost
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New York Times hypes unproven diabetes therapy as a “cure”
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FDA under renewed fire over dubious approval of Alzheimer’s drug
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U.S. invests $1.5 billion to boost health staffing in underserved areas
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Ohio jurors fault big pharmacy chains for role in opioid drug crisis
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Not so fast, Omicron variant says, as U.S. races for holiday normalcy
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When big money is on the line, hospitals can lose their moral compass
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With 100,000 deaths, 2021 shatters grim record in opioid crisis
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U.S. urges booster shots for all 18 and older and especially the 50+
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Big thanks, not threats, are owed to all who work for our better health
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Opioid court cases offer hard evidence: Path to justice can be rocky
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Workers lose more ground as health insurance costs keep creeping up
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Pandemic battles focus on boosters for all and more shots for kids
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Biden nominates Robert Califf to reprise his Obama-era role as FDA chief
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$1 trillion invested in ‘infrastructure’ can boost U.S. health and well-being
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Patients can’t escape reminders of U.S. health care’s brutal costs
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First six months of ’21 set U.S. record for road deaths
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Thousands admitted to hospitals for other reasons ended up with Covid-19
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Kids now can get Covid shots. Will they? And what about the new anti-Covid pills?
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Women will receive more disclosures about risks of breast implants
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Health experts offer anti-drug strategy and fret over cigarette sales spike
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It’s past time to cry foul on wealthy corporations’ unfair practices
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U.S. pandemic deaths climb toward 750,000 as shots for kids near
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Give kids’ fun and safety more than a ghost of a chance for Halloween
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FDA advances plan for cheaper, easier, more convenient hearing aids
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Hospitals struggle to keep nurses, as nursing homes stall on staff shots
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U.S. has three approved boosters and is prepped to vaccinate kids
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Cut the salt in prepared and packaged food, U.S. urges makers and sellers
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FDA gives Big Tobacco a big win — approval for e-cigarette for vaping
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Daily low-dose aspirin? Rethink its risks vs. benefits, experts advise
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As Delta surge eases, what’s next with this pandemic?
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Aching backs lead to dubious surgeries and billion$ in revenue$
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Nothing to see here? Consultant advises drug makers — and their regulators
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Will Congress bog down or will it act on people’s health and other needs?
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As experts ponder vaccinating our kids, Covid orphans tens of thousands
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Ex-president’s buddies schemed to exploit VA patients’ data, records show
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Fake pills, laced with lethal fentanyl, are circulating widely, U.S. warns consumers
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FDA dithers dangerously on regulating sketchy ‘stem cell’ care and kid vaping
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Another milestone of lives lost needlessly
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Experts call for end to a race-based adjustment in a key kidney function test
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MDs urged to better police their own, as health disinformation runs amok
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FDA will keep bumbling until Biden and Becerra at least name agency’s chief
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Pfizer booster OKayed for millions, as U.S. struggles with toll of the unvaccinated
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Online portals let patients get their medical records. They’re full of errors, and patients can get them corrected.
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U.S. must do so much more to shield our youth from sexual abuse
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Nursing homes misdiagnose and sedate residents with strong drugs but lag on vaccinating staff
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Pandemic’s deadly toll rises each day. Why isn’t everybody taking it seriously?
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Facts and truth-telling matter — in dramas, governance, health, and the law
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FDA snuffs out cloud of e-cigarette and vaping products but delays big ruling
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Nursing homes recorded a horrific pandemic toll. But it may be even worse.
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U.S. toughens steps to quell surging pandemic as cultish resistance cries foul
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Lethal Colorado cop case shines disturbing light on emergency medical care
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Roads turned deadly during the pandemic. And, tragically, they’re staying so.
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Hospitals battered with Delta surge, storms, wildfires, and influx of sick kids
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With $ billions but no apologies or remorse, notorious opioid bankruptcy settles
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Warnings rise that nation’s younger people are far sicker than they should be
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A big sign of more long-term care problems: Nursing homes’ staffing struggles
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Nonprofit hospitals, awash in cash, seek yet higher returns as health care VCs
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As Delta variant slams hospitals, forecast warns of 100,000 more virus deaths
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Spiking deaths, health crises, and amputations: Diabetes is ‘out of control’
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A million bucks of surgical machinery? It’s not proven better — at least for patients
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Delta surge gets grimmer as both public health steps and resistance stiffen
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Millions stuck in nightmarish recalls of sleep apnea breathing devices
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Questions grow about billions flowing to specialists over medical hardware
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VA, in a slap at FDA, will decline to cover newly approved Alzheimer’s drug
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Senate Democrats tackle nursing home menaces that also made virus so lethal
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To battle pandemic, vaccine boosters, more mandates and fights with the resistant
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Risky heart pump shows how FDA fails patients on medical device regulation
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U.S. outspends other nations by far on health care but lags badly in outcomes
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Finally: Tide turns for vaccine mandates for nursing-home health staff
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Delta variant-surge embroils kids and parents in politicized pandemic disputes
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Biden Administration reinstates stiff fines for nursing home safety violations
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FDA may be letting medical device makers fudge safety reports, study finds
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Summer optimism wilts as contagious Delta variant rages in unvaccinated
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Olympians offer golden insights on the importance of mental health for all
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$140 billion in medical debt slams patients, especially the poor and uninsured
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Big Pharma is hard to rein in. Just look at two drug cases grabbing headlines.
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For nursing homes, a different kind of infection and unvaccinated staff raise alarms
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Vexation rises as unvaccinated dig in and pandemic surges with Delta variant
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Surgical robot’s maker sued over business practices — but not patients’ care?
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Worse than feared: Drug overdoses rose 30% to record levels during pandemic
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Sharp reminders of the need to watch out for dangerous doctors
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CDC official sees a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as coronavirus cases surge
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Hospitals gouge poor and uninsured patients with top prices, cost data show
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As opioid drug-case settlement advances, fentanyl deaths spike in D.C. area
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FDA puts the brakes on use of new Alzheimer’s drug and asks for outside investigation of its own hasty OK
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With 4 million deaths, pandemic’s persistent peril is clear globally. But in U.S.?
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For the vulnerable and injured, more proof that civil lawsuits provide key way to obtain justice
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U.S. advances key new protections for patients from ‘surprise’ medical bills
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Pacific Northwest-scorcher shows climate change can create big health risks
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Independence holiday shadowed by viral variant and deep national divides
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For a fun and safe Fourth, don’t fire off guns or blow up fireworks, please
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Nursing home deaths spiked 32% in 2020 due to pandemic, U.S. watchdog finds
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High-tech tools can boost blacks’ cancer warnings — and be racially biased
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As delta variant rises and vaccinations fall, stubborn virus digs in for summer
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Hospitals look mighty craven in deep digs into their draconian debt collection
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Who can’t see problems in medical device makers paying surgeons billions?
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U.S. likely to miss July 4 vaccination goal, with concern rising about variants
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Dozens of tuberculosis infections, including northern Virginia, tied to putty used in orthopedic surgeries
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Tens of millions keep Obamacare as justices toss a GOP suit for a third time
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14 million +1 reasons why sexual abuses of young athletes can’t be ignored
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Prince George’s County finally gets new hospital to replace 75-year-old facility
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Speedy OK of Alzheimer’s drug creates a big mess for patients and taxpayers
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Covid shots are voluntary. Mostly. But pressures are growing on unvaccinated.
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Beer, donuts, childcare, rides, lotto prizes — will vaccination incentives work?
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U.S. consumer agency cracks down on baby sleepers tied to dozens of deaths
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Plaintiffs’ fortitude: It’s an admirable must when battling corporate fat cats
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Top medical journals, ob-gyns, and NFL all face tough reckoning with racism
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Congresswoman discloses her health emergency to warn against OTC drugs
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In quelling pandemic, officials confront perilous chasm with the unvaccinated
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Whoa, summer sneaked in! Here’s how to make it a safe, healthy, fun time
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New health care leader looks to clean up the nursing home mess
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Hospitals rip patients with draconian debt collection and costly parking fees
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Big Pharma, battling over sky-high prices, called out on big fib on R&D costs
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Virginia Ob-gyn sentenced to 59 years in prison for harming patients and ripping off insurers
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In the rush to return to normality, reasons abound why it just doesn’t feel that great
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‘The Crime of the Century’ documents our lethal opioid tragedy
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D.C. will spend $10 million to battle increasing traffic injuries and deaths
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Investigators rip University of Michigan for failing to halt decades of sexual abuse of young men
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Easing of public health guidelines signals big progress in quelling pandemic
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All U.S. patients need a primary care doctor, panel of top experts recommends
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Hospitals called out for performing too many low-value tests and procedures
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Big reconsideration under way for long-term care as coronavirus toll eases
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U.S. targets July 4 for independence from grip of coronavirus pandemic
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Whether by stars or letter grades, D.C. hospitals again rank so-so at best
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U.S. will ban targeted health menace of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
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U.S. ends confusion and expands prescribing of opioid-fighting medication
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As the world begs for vaccine doses, millions in U.S. shun the shots
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Drivers are speeding with dire consequences. And a crackdown is coming fast.
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Heavy marijuana use by pregnant women can harm babies, big California study finds
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UVA health system will curb decades of hounding patients over medical bills
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Will the reluctant and resistant trip up the campaign to quell the pandemic?
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Sexually transmitted infections spike for sixth year in a row, CDC reports
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