The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

Meanwhile, drugmakers are expected to raise prices on over 250 medications in the new year; rules for hospital price transparency are updated; and more.

The tool developed by British researchers examines patient data to calculate risks for people who might develop the condition. Meanwhile, Stat reports on a study of pulse oximeters, which are ...

Some nursing homes are preparing for the new staffing regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services slated to take effect in 2025. Others are holding back, waiting to see if the rule ...

The outbreak took place between 2022 and 2023 and was the first such outbreak to take place in an industrial setting. In other news: broccoli recalls; vapes are still being shipped through the mail, ...

The Boston Globe: Last-Minute Health Care Bills Make Needed Reforms Two major bills — one on health care market oversight and another on prescription drug costs — landed on Governor Maura Healey ...

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The Wall Street Journal reports how UnitedHealth provided lists of potential, often obscure diagnoses to its doctors and forced them to weigh in on them for each Medicare Advantage patient, in order ...

Experts in Texas make a case for mental health funds; New Yorkers will receive paid leave for prenatal care; Colorado explores psychedelic therapy; and more.

A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics ...

In the seventh year of KFF Health News’ “Bill of the Month” series, patients shared their most perplexing, vexing, and downright expensive medical bills, and reporters analyzed $800,000 in charges — ...

The AIDS Memorial Quilt featuring the names of those who had died of AIDS was first displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 1987, during the Second National March on ...