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Pain Clinic CEO Faced 20 Years for Making Patients ‘Human Pin Cushions.’ He Got 18 Months.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors sought a maximum prison sentence of nearly 20 years for the CEO of Pain MD, a company found to have given hundreds of thousands of questionable injections to ...

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Missouri lawmakers move to repeal abortion protections enacted by voters

Missouri lawmakers passed a voter referendum Wednesday that, if approved, would repeal protections for abortion rights and restore a ban on nearly all abortion care in the state.The move comes just...

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Doctors save baby's life with first-ever gene fix for deadly rare disease

The rare genetic disease kills 50% of babies diagnosed with it by early infancy.Just six months after a newborn at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening...

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Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment's repe...

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What the EPA's partial rollback of the 'forever chemical' drinking water rule means

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the ...

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Prisons Routinely Ignore Guidelines on Dying Inmates’ End-of-Life Choices

Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn’t have long to live. It was September 2023, and Rigs...

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Mental Health and Substance Misuse Treatment Is Increasingly a Video Chat or Phone Call Away

More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound shift in how mental health care is delivered as record-setting numbers seek h...

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Newsom’s Pitch as He Seeks to Pare Down Immigrant Health Care: ‘We Have To Adjust’

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back health care for immigrants without legal status, saying the state needed to cut benefits for some to maintain core ser...

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RFK Jr.’s Hearing With Senate HELP Committee: A Live Discussion

In his first public testimony on Capitol Hill since taking office, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on May 14 appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Lab...

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Why teachers and librarians have lower suicide rates—and what we can learn from them

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population. ...

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The GOP is trying again to cut Medicaid. It's only gotten harder since 2017

This is a KFF Health News story.It has been nearly eight years since Sen. John McCain's middle-of-the-night thumbs-down vote torpedoed Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make ...

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Extreme heat could make pregnancy riskier for millions of women: Report

The United States gains 12 pregnancy heat-risk days per year on average.As human-induced climate change continues warming the planet, pregnancy risks are increasing, according to a new analysis by ...

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Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts

BRANCHLAND, W.Va. — Ada Carol Adkins lives with her two dogs in a trailer tucked into the timbers off Upper Mud River Road. “I’m comfortable here, but I’m having health issues,” said the 68-...

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Judge orders restoration of jobs in health program for West Virginia coal miners

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agencyCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A judge on Tues...

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RFK Jr. to testify before House, Senate committees amid layoffs, overhaul at HHS

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before two congressional committees on Wednesday to discuss, among many topics, the Trump administration's proposed budge...

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