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• California Health Program Successfully Cut Hospital Visits A 5-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California's most at-risk Medicaid patients resulted in saving taxpayers an estimated $383 per patient per year.
  Associated Press, February 09, 2023
• Jessica Pegula Reveals Her Mother Kim Pegula's Health Crisis Jessica decided to write about her mother's ordeal after Bills player Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field during a game in what Pegula described as "some bizarre, messed-up, full circle moment."
  Associated Press, February 07, 2023
• California Won't Require COVID Vaccine to Attend Schools The availability of multiple vaccines has lessened the viruses' effects for many — offering relief to what had been an overwhelmed public health system.
  Associated Press, February 06, 2023
• New Lawsuits Target State Restrictions on Abortion Pills While the federal court lawsuits target specific state laws, they represent key legal tests that could eventually determine access to abortion for millions of women.
  Associated Press, January 25, 2023
• Nurses Ratify Contracts After Strike at Two NYC Hospitals The New York State Nurses Association said 98% of nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center voted in favor of the contracts.
  Associated Press, January 24, 2023
• Military Probing Whether Cancers Linked to Nuclear Silo Work “There are indications of a possible association between cancer and missile combat crew service at Malmstrom AFB.”
  Associated Press, January 23, 2023
• US Settlement Signals Protections for Addiction Medicine The US Department of Justice has used the Americans with Disabilities Act to settle a claim that an employee was discriminated against for taking a prescribed medication to treat drug addiction.
  Associated Press, January 20, 2023
• WVa Announces $83 Million Opioid Settlement With Walgreens That brings the total West Virginia dollars brought in from opioid litigation to more than $950 million.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2023
• WA Medical Board: Idaho Doctor Peddled False COVID-19 Claims The Washington state Medical Commission has accused a medical doctor in Idaho of violating standards related to COVID-19 and patient care.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2023
• Flavored Cannabis Marketing Is Criticized for Targeting Kids Inside the store run by the nonprofit Housing Works, shelves brimmed with vape cartridges suggesting flavors of pineapple, grapefruit, and “cereal milk," written in rainbow bubble letter print.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2023
• Arizona Dad Seeking Answers After Son Dies in State Care "They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks," the father told the Associated Press while on a recent furlough from jail.
  Associated Press, January 17, 2023
• California Latest to Sue Drug Companies Over Insulin Prices The lawsuit is the latest in a parade of legal actions which have accused the corporate giants of abusing their power to quash competition and boost their profits by keeping the price of insulin high.
  Associated Press, January 13, 2023
• Nurses at Two NYC Hospitals Return to Work as Deal Ends Strike The tentative deals at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, include raises totaling 19% over three years.
  Associated Press, January 12, 2023
• White House: Jill Biden Has Two Cancerous Lesions Removed Surgeons removed a cancerous lesion above First Lady Jill Biden 's right eye and one on her chest.
  Associated Press, January 12, 2023
• Nurses Strike for 2nd Day at Two Big NYC Hospitals
  Associated Press, January 10, 2023
• Nurses Go on Strike at Two Big New York City Hospitals The privately owned, nonprofit hospitals were postponing nonemergency surgeries, diverting ambulances to other medical centers, and pulling in temporary staffers.
  Associated Press, January 09, 2023
• Court: Abortion Doctors Can't Be Charged Under Arizona Law 'The statutes, read together, make clear that physicians are permitted to perform abortions as regulated' by other abortion laws, the appeals court wrote.
  Associated Press, January 03, 2023
• Move on From COVID? Child Care Disruptions Continue In the first and even second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-week quarantines and isolations were common for many Americans, especially children. But 9 weeks of missed childcare, nearly 3 years in?
  Associated Press, January 03, 2023