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The baby at the center of a surrogacy battle, Rumi, had his first open-heart surgery Friday for his severe congenital heart condition in Dallas. Lee Budner, an attorney for the California-based Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, gave an update on…
Read full article →Federal efforts to revive uranium mining in the West and decrease reliance on Russian uranium are raising concerns about drinking water for tribal communities reckoning with the industry’s deadly legacy.
Read full article →These specialized units can help keep older patients out of the hospital, lower their healthcare costs, and more.
Read full article →In a Phase 3 trial of people with post-bariatric hypoglycemia, those taking the drug, avexitide, experienced a 55% reduction in the rate of serious low blood sugar events compared with…
Read full article →Colorado biotech Enveda reports preliminary results on a drug to help people maintain weight loss after GLP-1 use. Just don't call it exercise in a pill.
Read full article →Doritos in the classic nacho cheese flavor have 27 ingredients, including not just familiar ones but also a number of additives and preservatives.
Read full article →“Everything about the West case shows how miserably surrogacy has been managed in America,” writes Arthur Caplan.
Read full article →“Like climate change, antimicrobial resistance is a global challenge, but its causes and consequences are unevenly distributed,” writes GARDP’s Peter Beyer.
Read full article →Politicians are contemplating raising taxes and cutting benefits as the cost of health care for government workers surges.
Read full article →A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
Read full article →Papa is expanding its relationship with eternalHealth, with the Boston-based insurer signing on for three core services from its Papa Plus platform.
Read full article →UnitedHealthcare, Network Health and Aetna are among the first group of health plans to go live with the API, while Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health and Summit Health are the four health systems now using the real-time prior…
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