UCHealth provided more than half a billion dollars’ worth of uncompensated care in fiscal year 2023, and representatives for the health care system on Tuesday said they expect to spend…
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a drug from Merck designed to treat a progressive and life-threatening lung condition in a win for both the drugmaker and for patients…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit Americans’ access to the…
The former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers Home, where at least 76 veterans died in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, has pleaded guilty to five charges of neglect but will…
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We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.
President Joe Biden in…
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In early 2019, Jennifer Hepworth and her husband were stunned by a large bill they unexpectedly received for their daughter’s prescription cystic…
A nurse fills a syringe with Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.Fred Tanneau | Afp | Getty ImagesModerna on Tuesday said a new version of its Covid vaccine triggered a stronger immune response…
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