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Health care is so expensive that 31 million U.S. adults, or 12%, had to borrow a total of $74 billion last year to obtain medical care, new data shows. That includes people with health insurance, making such numbers even more troubling. Almost one-third of the more than 3,500 people surveyed by Gallup and West Health,
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A special education teacher at Huron High School in New Boston, Michigan, gathered with students on Wednesday to make blankets for families of organ donors. Jackie Dennis had just given birth in 2020 when her health went downhill. After a little over a month on life support, doctors began preparation for a double lung transplant.
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Lifesaving training is now available to the Hispanic and Latino community in North Philadelphia. At Wednesday’s ribbon cutting event, the Maria de los Santos Health Center welcomed a new lifesaving training device aimed at helping people who speak Spanish learn how to perform CPR. It’s a Spanish-speaking, hands-only CPR kiosk that teaches people how to
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The top communications official under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly resigned last week, just two weeks after being sworn in to be the department’s assistant secretary for public affairs. The resignation of Thomas Corry, a Trump administration appointee, was first reported by Politico. Corry did not respond to multiple requests
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Measles outbreaks across North America are threatening the region’s status of having officially eliminated the virus, officials from the Pan-American Health Organization warned, potentially undoing a hard-fought victory to wipe out community transmission. The U.N. agency pointed to a 4.5-times increase in reported measles cases this year across North and South America, compared to the
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A recent Harvard Business Review article identified a phenomenon called “meeting hangovers” which new research shows can derail productivity well beyond the meeting itself. A survey conducted by University of North Carolina Charlotte and other institutions found that more than 90% of employees occasionally experience these “meeting hangovers,” with over half reporting that these negative effects
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The Food and Drug Administration was allowed to participate in the World Health Organization’s meeting this week on updating influenza shots, officials for the U.N. agency said, despite an order by President Trump last month banning government employees from working with the WHO. The administration has granted some exemptions to the order. “FDA, the same
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CDC warns of surge in flu cases Why the CDC is warning that this flu season is on track to be one of the worst in a decade 03:26 This season’s influenza vaccines may have been less effective against emergency room visits for some kids compared to last year, a new study by the Centers
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Dozens of passengers aboard a cruise ship that left from Florida have been sickened with norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program. Holland America Line’s Eurodam left Port Everglades, Florida, on Feb. 19, according to the tracking site cruisemapper.com. The cruise is scheduled to last 10 days and make
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The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season’s influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News, upending the usual process to start manufacturing next winter’s flu shots. “We’re all left trying to understand what is going on. Why was this meeting
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