August 26, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as more aggressive than former President Donald Trump in taking on pharmaceutical companies, but Trump allies say he would also make lowering drug costs a top priority.
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Although public health officials recommend the newly approved covid vaccine for everyone 6 months and older, it may make more sense to wait until closer to the holiday season.
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Insurance coverage for abortion care in the U.S. is a hodgepodge. Patients often don’t know when or if a procedure or abortion pills are covered, and the proliferation of abortion bans has exacerbated the confusion.
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A Long Island security firm routinely billed taxpayers for full eight-hour shifts at one of the city’s biggest migrant shelters, even as daily time logs kept by staff show hundreds of entries in which guards recorded arrival times later than the shifts started or departure times before they ended, a review by THE CITY has…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.Updated Covid vaccines, slated to hit shelves this week, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. The…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.The FDA has approved an updated Covid shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest Cov…
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here.Everything had been going just fine on the morning of election day in Summit, Wiscons…
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Greater Akron, along with most of the United States, is seeing a summer surge in COVID-19 infections. The Centers for Disease Control reported the positivity rate for COVID-19 testing was just above 18%. Ohio, at 18.5%, is slightly higher than the national average. But the surge may be larger than reported. The post How to…