Evan Vega
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Public Health
In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital
Mitchell Black and Noam N. Levey McALESTER, Okla. — It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to…
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Public Health
Insurance Doesn’t Always Cover Hearing Aids for Kids
Joyce Shen was devastated when doctors said her firstborn, Emory, hadn’t passed her newborn hearing screening. Emory was diagnosed with…
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Infectious Disease
Wastewater can detect mpox, especially as cases increase
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Public Health
We like health-care stocks in 2024 despite presidential election year weakness
As the old Wall Street adage goes, health care tends to underperform the stock market in presidential election years —…
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Infectious Disease
Vaccination reduces long COVID risk in children, study shows
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Public Health
Biden Cracks Down on Prior Authorization — But There Are Limits
More than a year after it was initially proposed, the Biden administration announced a final rule yesterday that will change…
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Nutrition
Putting the Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss to the Test
For more than a century, fasting has been used as a weight-loss treatment. I’ve talked about the benefits of caloric…
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Public Health
‘Emergency’ or Not, Covid Is Still Killing People. Here’s What Doctors Advise to Stay Safe.
With around 20,000 people dying of covid in the United States since the start of October, and tens of thousands…
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Public Health
Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then…
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Public Health
Boehringer Ingelheim, Terns, Viking may join market
Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used…
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