Decline due to temporary Medicaid payment boost, reduced charity care SALEM, Ore. — Oregon hospitals and health systems spent 8.7% less on activities such as providing free or reduced-cost care, conducting health education and research, […]
Olympia – Carbon monoxide (CO), often referred to as the “invisible killer,” is a colorless, odorless, andtasteless gas produced when fuels like gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil, or methane burnincompletely. Common household sources […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weekend: The government wants them back. Beginning Friday night, FDA employees overseeing medical […]
Supplies of high-demand obesity treatments are improving, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier to get them. Many employers and insurers are scaling back coverage of Wegovy and Zepbound and a key government program, Medicare, doesn’t cover […]
VANNES, France (AP) — A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his […]
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