Public Health
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Health Plan Shake-Up Could Disrupt Coverage for Low-Income Californians
Bernard J. Wolfson Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers…
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Biogen to pay $900 million to settle drug kickback allegations
A Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters Biogen will pay $900 million to settle a lawsuit that…
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At This Recovery Center, Police Cope With the Mental Health Costs of the Job
Katja Ridderbusch HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when…
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Britain’s Hard Lessons From Handing Elder Care Over to Private Equity
LONDON — A little over a decade ago, Four Seasons Health Care was among the largest long-term care home companies…
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The UAE is scrapping its Covid mask requirements after 2½ years
A mask-clad Israeli tourist in the historic al-Fahidi neighborhood of Dubai on January 11, 2021. As much of the world…
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Is Covid ‘Under Control’ in the US? Experts Say Yes
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact and Jeff Cercone, PolitiFact Promise: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going…
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Embedded Bias: How Medical Records Sow Discrimination
Darius Tahir David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he “used to be Ph.D. level” during…
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Biden administration awards $1.5 billion to fight opioid crisis
US President Joe Biden speaks about the DISCLOSE Act at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC…
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We want to buy on market weakness
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 am ET. Here’s a…
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Journalists Dissect Medical Coding and Parse the President’s Words
KHN freelancer Helen Santoro discussed insurance coverage for transgender medical care on KCRW’s “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” on Sept.…
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