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Justice Department sues to block UnitedHealth Group's $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys
Read full article: Justice Department sues to block UnitedHealth Group's $3.3 billion purchase of AmedisysThe Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys.
Top 5 health issues Houston men should look out for during Men’s Health Awareness Month
Read full article: Top 5 health issues Houston men should look out for during Men’s Health Awareness MonthOn average, men live 5 years less than women and more than 12% of men over 18 are in fair or poor health, according to Movember US. Men are also 24% less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year.
WHO says mpox cases in Congo's epicenter where the new variant was detected may be 'plateauing'
Read full article: WHO says mpox cases in Congo's epicenter where the new variant was detected may be 'plateauing'The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.
Traumatized by war, hundreds of Lebanon's children struggle with wounds both physical and emotional
Read full article: Traumatized by war, hundreds of Lebanon's children struggle with wounds both physical and emotionalFour-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month.
'I got my life back.' Veterans with PTSD making progress thanks to service dog program
Read full article: 'I got my life back.' Veterans with PTSD making progress thanks to service dog programAfter working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with whether state's 175-year-old abortion ban is valid
Read full article: Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with whether state's 175-year-old abortion ban is validAn attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.
Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation's 4th biggest killer
Read full article: Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation's 4th biggest killerThe majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.
Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike
Read full article: Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spikeAnti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year.
Shriners Children’s Texas opens residential building, new parking garage for patients
Read full article: Shriners Children’s Texas opens residential building, new parking garage for patientsThe facility looks less like a hospital room with beautiful colors and the comforts of home. Patients attest to how children can thrive in a familiar, less clinical setting.
Health care worker gets 2 years for accessing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical records
Read full article: Health care worker gets 2 years for accessing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical recordsA former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died has been sentenced to two years in prison.
CDC calls for expanded testing for bird flu after blood tests reveal more farmworker infections
Read full article: CDC calls for expanded testing for bird flu after blood tests reveal more farmworker infectionsFederal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu.
Don't wait for a holiday surge. Now is a good time to get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines
Read full article: Don't wait for a holiday surge. Now is a good time to get your flu and COVID-19 vaccinesHealth officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.
“Transform Your Life: Innovative Lasers of Houston Opens New Location in The Woodlands with Special Offers!”
Read full article: “Transform Your Life: Innovative Lasers of Houston Opens New Location in The Woodlands with Special Offers!”Innovative Lasers of Houston celebrated the opening of their newest location in the Woodlands! With their services extending to The Woodlands, Conroe, New Caney, Cleveland, Spring, and other nearby regions, it has never been a better time to try laser technology as part of your weight loss plan. The Innovative Lasers of Houston team says they are driven to help their clients transform their lives. Using a combination of laser technology that co-founder Laura Alexis describes as something akin to a fat-melting machine, along with nutrition planning and accountability, clients say they are getting results.
UK identifies 4 cases of new mpox variant, the first cluster outside Africa
Read full article: UK identifies 4 cases of new mpox variant, the first cluster outside AfricaBritish health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa.
Cutting-edge tool ‘liquifies,’ destroys liver cancer tumor without surgery
Read full article: Cutting-edge tool ‘liquifies,’ destroys liver cancer tumor without surgeryTraditional liver tumor treatments include surgery, chemo, and radiation. Now, doctors have a new tool in their toolbox to fight it, with a non-invasive procedure.
UK doctor gets 31 years for poisoning mother's partner with fake COVID vaccine
Read full article: UK doctor gets 31 years for poisoning mother's partner with fake COVID vaccineA British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and injected his mother’s boyfriend with poison presented as a COVID-19 vaccine has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.
UK introduces a bill that would eventually make the purchase of cigarettes illegal
Read full article: UK introduces a bill that would eventually make the purchase of cigarettes illegalLegislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament.
Abortion rights advocates win in 7 states and clear way to overturn Missouri ban but lose in 3
Read full article: Abortion rights advocates win in 7 states and clear way to overturn Missouri ban but lose in 3Abortion rights advocates lost on Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ballot measures but prevailed in seven other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation's strictest bans.
Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again
Read full article: Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack againThe last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks.
Abortion rights at forefront of Women's March rallies in runup to Election Day
Read full article: Abortion rights at forefront of Women's March rallies in runup to Election DayThousands of women have rallied in the U.S. capital and elsewhere with abortion rights at the forefront of their demonstrations.
Debate over abortion rights leads to expensive campaigns for high-stakes state Supreme Court seats
Read full article: Debate over abortion rights leads to expensive campaigns for high-stakes state Supreme Court seatsThe debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.
An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it's a first
Read full article: An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it's a firstA regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.
Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW Pakistan
Read full article: Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW PakistanA powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine people including five nearby children.
Louisiana’s new law on abortion drugs establishes risky treatment delays, lawsuit claims
Read full article: Louisiana’s new law on abortion drugs establishes risky treatment delays, lawsuit claimsLouisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others.
A promising schizophrenia drug showed mixed results. What does that mean for patients?
Read full article: A promising schizophrenia drug showed mixed results. What does that mean for patients?Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.
'Obamacare' enrollment opens, as Republicans threaten the health insurance program used by millions
Read full article: 'Obamacare' enrollment opens, as Republicans threaten the health insurance program used by millionsAmericans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.
EU Commission fines Teva $500 million for trying to stop rival's multiple sclerosis drug
Read full article: EU Commission fines Teva $500 million for trying to stop rival's multiple sclerosis drugThe European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.
Gen Z leading alcohol “sober curious” movement, but reports rise in drug use
Read full article: Gen Z leading alcohol “sober curious” movement, but reports rise in drug useNew research shows Generation Z is on track to become the most sober generation, with young adults increasingly choosing to abstain from alcohol.
Judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion ads
Read full article: Judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion adsA federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.
Attack on a health center used in an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan kills 2 police officers
Read full article: Attack on a health center used in an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan kills 2 police officersPakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead.
Learn how these Houston doctors are turning on healing powers within patients and helping relieve pain
Read full article: Learn how these Houston doctors are turning on healing powers within patients and helping relieve painAt NexGenEsis in Houston, Texas, doctors help their patients find relief from pain by turning on the body's healing power using regenerative medicine. For Dorian Castro, this meant he was able to take his life back
People opt out of organ donation programs after reports of a man mistakenly declared dead
Read full article: People opt out of organ donation programs after reports of a man mistakenly declared deadTransplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.
Pakistan begins another vaccination campaign after a worrying surge in polio cases
Read full article: Pakistan begins another vaccination campaign after a worrying surge in polio casesPakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases that has hampered years of efforts to stop the disease in one of the two countries where it has never been eradicated.
McDonald’s says slivered onions believe to be tied to E. Coli outbreak were distributed to 900 restaurants in 12 states
Read full article: McDonald’s says slivered onions believe to be tied to E. Coli outbreak were distributed to 900 restaurants in 12 statesMcDonald’s says they believe slivered onions supplied from a California-based produce company have been isolated as the likely cause of the E. Coli outbreak tied to the company’s Quarter Pounders.
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder back on the menu after testing rules out beef patties as E. coli source
Read full article: McDonald’s Quarter Pounder back on the menu after testing rules out beef patties as E. coli sourceMcDonald's says testing has ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas to remove Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center from Medicare, Medicaid networks
Read full article: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas to remove Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center from Medicare, Medicaid networksBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas announced it has made the decision to remove MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston from its Medicare Advantage PPO, Blue Cross Medicare Advantage HMO, and Medicaid networks effective Nov. 1, 2024.
Navigating health care: How those with chronic conditions and disabilities can find tailored support
Read full article: Navigating health care: How those with chronic conditions and disabilities can find tailored supportDual-eligible individuals -- those who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid -- often face complex health needs and barriers to accessing care.
Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Trump
Read full article: Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against TrumpKamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday.
Officials find no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after Missouri investigation
Read full article: Officials find no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after Missouri investigationHealth officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection.
McDonald's and Boar's Head outbreaks may have you worried. Experts say the food supply is safe
Read full article: McDonald's and Boar's Head outbreaks may have you worried. Experts say the food supply is safeDeadly food poisoning outbreaks tied to McDonald's and Boar's Head may have left Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply.
British killer nurse Lucy Letby loses appeal bid for attempted baby murder conviction
Read full article: British killer nurse Lucy Letby loses appeal bid for attempted baby murder convictionAn appeals court in London has rejected British killer nurse Lucy Letby’s bid to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care.
EPA imposes stricter standards to protect children from exposure to lead paint
Read full article: EPA imposes stricter standards to protect children from exposure to lead paintThe Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities.
How will abortion laws motivate women in North Carolina to vote in this election?
Read full article: How will abortion laws motivate women in North Carolina to vote in this election?Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.
Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or Trump
Read full article: Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or TrumpTikTok videos of women turned away from emergency rooms because of state abortion bans haunt one young female voter in North Carolina.
People 50 and older should get pneumococcal vaccine, U.S. health officials recommend
Read full article: People 50 and older should get pneumococcal vaccine, U.S. health officials recommendU.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses.
50 years after Philadelphia halted prison medical testing, families seek reparations
Read full article: 50 years after Philadelphia halted prison medical testing, families seek reparationsFifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black.
Bad state data may misdirect nearly $1 billion in federal funds to replace lead pipes
Read full article: Bad state data may misdirect nearly $1 billion in federal funds to replace lead pipesThe Environmental Protection Agency didn't ensure that states submitted accurate estimates of the number of lead pipes they had.
Quarter Pounders are off the menu at 20% of McDonald's in US as E. coli cases are investigated
Read full article: Quarter Pounders are off the menu at 20% of McDonald's in US as E. coli cases are investigatedMcDonald’s is working to reassure U.S. customers that its restaurants are safe even as federal investigators try to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E.
Harris ad shows a Texas woman who lost baby and nearly died from sepsis amid strict abortion ban
Read full article: Harris ad shows a Texas woman who lost baby and nearly died from sepsis amid strict abortion banA striking new Kamala Harris campaign ad campaign that seeks to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe tells the story of a Texas woman named Ondrea who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn’t get medical care after she miscarried, and now may no longer be able to have children.
UK regulator approves second Alzheimer's drug in months but government won't pay for it
Read full article: UK regulator approves second Alzheimer's drug in months but government won't pay for itBritain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers.
An Alabama judge appoints a mediator in a long-running medical marijuana dispute
Read full article: An Alabama judge appoints a mediator in a long-running medical marijuana disputeA judge has appointed a mediator to try to negotiate an end to a long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.
Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight state's abortion ban in a pitch to battleground voters
Read full article: Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight state's abortion ban in a pitch to battleground votersVice President Kamala Harris plans to head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day to try to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care.
Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says
Read full article: Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report saysA new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Kaiser mental health workers go on strike in Southern California over staffing, workloads
Read full article: Kaiser mental health workers go on strike in Southern California over staffing, workloadsMore than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages.
White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
Read full article: White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth controlPeople with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.
Polio is rising in Pakistan ahead of a new vaccination campaign
Read full article: Polio is rising in Pakistan ahead of a new vaccination campaignOfficials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state.
In New York, a constitutional amendment provides election fodder for the left and the right
Read full article: In New York, a constitutional amendment provides election fodder for the left and the rightDemocrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot this November because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights.
CVS workers strike at 7 Southern California stores for better pay and health care
Read full article: CVS workers strike at 7 Southern California stores for better pay and health careWorkers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company.
Houston ISD student dies after testing positive for Meningococcal Disease
Read full article: Houston ISD student dies after testing positive for Meningococcal DiseaseThe student at a Houston Independent School District’s Bonham Elementary School has died after testing positive for Meningococcal Disease.
Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
Read full article: Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortionsA three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.
Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation
Read full article: Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolationAn expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness.
Africa's mpox deaths surpass 1,000 as health officials urge international support
Read full article: Africa's mpox deaths surpass 1,000 as health officials urge international supportAfrica's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits.
Adult day centers offer multicultural hubs for older people of color
Read full article: Adult day centers offer multicultural hubs for older people of colorAdult day centers are the most racially diverse long-term care setting in the U.S. They also serve the least amount of people of all long-term care settings, in part because of the cost and limited insurance coverage options.