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Florida Hospitals Ask Immigrants About Their Legal Status. Texas Will Try It Next.

Patients can decline to answer and still receive care

1 Hr Ago
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Haunting Questions About a Lethal American Virus

How long has Sin Nombre hantavirus lived in North America?

Sep 15, 2024
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HHS Proposes Rule to Increase Access to Kidney, Liver Transplants in HIV Patients

Rule would streamline criteria for organ donation from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV

Sep 13, 2024
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CDC: U.S. Falls Short in Improving QoL for Older People With HIV

Addressing shortcomings will require moving "beyond clinical care," agency says

Sep 13, 2024
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Feds Rarely Punish Hospitals for Turning Away Pregnant Patients

Inquiries are "slow, insufficiently staffed," and get pushback from hospitals, said one expert

Sep 13, 2024
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Nurses Blast Steward Health Care's Greed: 'It Ruins You'

Steward CEO, Ralph de la Torre, MD, was a "no-show" at hearing, despite subpoena

Sep 13, 2024
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Opinion
Direct-to-Consumer Drugs: Big Pharma's Digital Health Play

Regulators will need to closely watch this new frontier

Sep 13, 2024
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MedPod Today: Med Board Snubs New Law; Is Ketamine Addictive? AMR the Musical

ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ reporters offer further insights into these recently covered topics

Sep 13, 2024
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Single Dose of Mpox Vaccine Series Appears to Give Partial Protection

However, full two-dose vaccine series likely needed to curtail mpox resurgence, researchers say

Sep 12, 2024
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Full Sequence of Missouri Patient's H5 Bird Flu May Not Be Available

Still, CDC officials say virus appears related to strain seen in dairy cows

Sep 12, 2024
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Cardiologist Gets 4 to 8 Years; Nurse's Accused Killer Charged; Spine Surgery Suit

A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

Sep 12, 2024
Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.
Threats to Whistleblowers, Rampant Fraud Plague Transplant System, Lawmakers Told

Attempts to recover organs from live donors "absolutely terrifying," House member says

Sep 11, 2024
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Circulating H5N1 Bird Flu Spotted by Wastewater Monitoring During Summer

Signal has generally trailed off, but more sensitive method showed virus lingering in Texas

Sep 11, 2024
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Doc Travels for Abortion Training; Families Wrongly Separated; Jail Opioid Success

This past week in healthcare investigations

Sep 11, 2024
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