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Want to win votes from members of Congress to pass a health law? Add government spending programs that benefit hospitals represented by those members. Want to…
Category: 5. Health
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Public Health Success Is Fragile
28 August 2019, Lower Saxony, Hanover: A pediatrician vaccinates a one-year-old child in the thigh … [+]
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Trump Administration Delays Funding To Cancer Research
President Trump signing a series of executive orders at Capital One arena on Inauguration day
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Yesterday, the Trump Administration imposed a wide range of restrictions on the National Institutes of Health (NIH):…
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Trump Administration Halts Certain Public Health Agencies’ Activities
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in … [+]
President Trump has imposed…
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UnitedHealth Group Names Successor For Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
A general view outside of UnitedHealth Group’s United Healthcare corporate headquarters in … [+]
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Health and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.
Under the secretary’s leadership, the multiple agencies…
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FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history
Red 3 – also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or E127 – has been widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals since its FDA approval in 1969. You’ve likely encountered Red 3 before. It’s a common additive to many candies,…
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Elevance Health 2024 Profits Hit $6 Billion Despite Rising Costs
Elevance Health reported nearly $6 billion in 2024 profits including $413 million in the fourth … [+]
Elevance Health…
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ZAKA and Avaraham Tal’s mission of hope in the depths of pain
Fifteen months after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel’s South, Dubi Weissenstern, CEO of ZAKA, the volunteer search and rescue organization, still finds it hard to escape the searing memories of that difficult period. In the course of a…
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Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs may lower risk of 42 health conditions, but also pose risks
Several years ago, a little-known drug named Ozempic – previously used only to treat diabetes – emerged as a promising new drug for weight management.
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Ozempic in 2021 for weight loss…
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