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Study: COVID cut life expectancy but women continue to live longer than men Study: COVID cut life expectancy but women continue to live longer than men 01:07 BOSTON – When it comes to life expectancy, the gender gap is widening even further. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the
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The Biden administration’s first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug industry’s price negotiators is backfiring, pharmacists say. Instead, it’s adding to the woes of the independent drugstores it was partly designed to help. The so-called PBMs have long clawed back a fee from pharmacies weeks or
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Sold as children’s toys and some resembling candy, water beads are colorful, water-absorbing balls. Yet the products can also be hazardous to young children and even potentially deadly if swallowed as they can grow many times their size once inside a child’s body, advocates and a federal agency warn. That’s why parents and the chair
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Weight loss drug Wegovy cut risk of serious heart problems by 20%, study finds – CBS News Watch CBS News A new study published in the The New England Journal of Medicine by the maker of the popular weight loss drug Wegovy finds the medication could lower the risk of serious and even deadly heart
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Supply of RSV antibody shot struggling to meet demand – CBS News Watch CBS News The demand for the Beyfortus RSV antibody shot has been so high that the CDC recommends doctors only give it to their most vulnerable patients. Mark Strassmann has more. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser
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Expert breaks down rising health insurance costs Expert breaks down rising health insurance costs 04:22 At least 2 million children have lost health insurance coverage since the end of a pandemic policy that guaranteed Medicaid coverage during the health emergency, according to a new report. Through November 8, a total of about 10.1 million Americans
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Edna Garcia thinks she has paid her dues. For 34 years, she worked as a public high school teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut, while also serving as a local lawmaker for eight years. In her retirement, she volunteers at her church, where she helps members deal with health insurance problems. “I have been beneficial to
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Unlike other bills, the debts a growing number of Americans are piling up to obtain health care services are often unplanned, or the result of billing issues and other errors that reflect the challenge of navigating our dauntingly complex health care system. Although such problems often aren’t the fault of patients, medical debt can scar
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A Texas pet food manufacturer is greatly expanding a recall to include dozens of different types of dry dog and cat food potentially contaminated with salmonella, with at least seven people — six of them infants — sickened. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the
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Man makes medical history after successful eye transplant – CBS News Watch CBS News A team of doctors at NYU Langone Health performed the first successful eye transplant as part of a facial transplant surgery back in May. The patient is going public with his story during a virtual announcement later today. Dr. Jon LaPook
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