Opinion: Maine’s seniors need better access to safe pain medication
Medicare needs to cover non-opioid treatments instead of riskier ones. A new legislative proposal can help cover the cost.
Hims & Hers responds to controversy over Super Bowl weight loss drug commercial: 'We're calling for change'
Hims & Hers believes that is where the controversy lies. “We called on the industry and said that they need to change — and ...
Millions will see this Super Bowl ad. Health experts (and two senators) aren’t pleased
The first thing the ad shows is a scale. Over the soundtrack of Childish Gambino’s anthem “This is America,” a narrator laments the nation’s obesity crisis and “the system” that is “built to keep us ...
Federal judge denies effort to block DOGE from accessing DOL data despite 'concerns'
A federal judge has denied an effort to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data from the ...
US judge declines to block Elon Musk's DOGE from Labor Department systems
A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department ...
Lawsuit alleges North Carolina foster care system is failing children
The lawsuit, directed at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service (NCDHHS), says everything comes back to ...
Hospitals work to minimize adverse health events
Hospitals in Hutchinson, Glencoe and Litchfield were responsible for a total of five adverse health events during a recent 12-month period, according to a report released last week by the ...
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A federal judge won't immediately block DOGE access to the US Labor Department
A different judge temporarily restricted DOGE access to Treasury Department systems that process trillions of dollars in ...
Judge won’t block DOGE from accessing Labor Department systems
A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to confidential systems or firing employees for ...
Nurses at 7 Providence hospitals in Oregon reject proposed contracts, will continue strike
Nurses at seven Providence hospitals in Oregon overwhelmingly voted down proposed labor contracts Thursday, their union said, ...
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Who is part of Elon Musk's DOGE and what are they doing?
The scope of DOGE's work and the identities of the people carrying it out isn't fully clear — leaving agencies and government ...
States absorb big increases in Medicaid for sicker-than-expected enrollees after COVID-19 pandemic
In Pennsylvania, state budget makers recently unveiled the scale of that miscalculation, with Gov. Shapiro proposing an increase of $2.5 billion in Medicaid spending in the next fiscal year.