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One company aims to shift views on the devices from being a sign of aging to "something that's hip and cool," as Congress considers a bill that would urge the FDA to allow hearing aids to be sold in drug stores.
Cigarette makers have found they can more than make up for falling volumes with higher prices.
In addition to a major demonstration in Washington, D.C., marchers turned out in hundreds of other U.S. cities and abroad too.
Sexual abuse is nationwide problem facing those living at longterm-care and assisted-living facilities, but too often it's overlooked.
Dr. Barbara Temeck wrote prescriptions for a private patient, but her lawyer says his review of VA records shows that Temeck is facing a severe suspension that has not been imposed in even extreme cases of VA prescription misuse.
Some are introducing legislation to guarantee funding for Planned Parenthood while others move to plug any potential gaps from a possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
The drugmaker announced it was discontinuing its membership after it completed its sale of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug earlier that day. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying spending has skyrocketed.
Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, a nurse and Vivek Murthy's deputy, will take the position of acting surgeon general.
Idaho, Oklahoma and Minnesota have passed measures to relieve some of the burden of covering individuals under the Affordable Care Act from their insurers. Meanwhile, Access Health's CEO says he's worried more companies will leave the marketplaces, and consumers in Arizona struggle with skyrocketing rates.
Both the spending battle and the health care fight await lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week.
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Opinion writers review "the 2.0 version" of the American Health Care Act, examine what's happening so far with the Affordable Care Act and take a look at the current state of the individual insurance market.
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Media outlets report on news from California, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas and Florida.
In Hawaii, lobbyists push back against part of a bill that would cover fertility treatments for some LGBT couples. Meanwhile, California, Arizona and Colorado legislatures consider other measures that would impact the health or safety of residents.
A new study looks at the effects of electrical stimulation on the brain, and how those pulses can improve and impair memory.
“Today, we are facing another challenge, a plague that has been set upon the Cherokee people by these corporations,” said Todd Hembree, attorney general for the Cherokees. “Their main goal is profit, and this scourge has cost lives and the Cherokee Nation millions.”
The CDC continues to promote immunizations just as it did under the Obama administration, but vaccine skeptics still feel emboldened by having the new president in the White House. In other public health news: a diet soda link to dementia risk; anxiety in students; a rare tick-borne disease; dietary supplements; and Henrietta Lacks' cells.
Republican legislation to replace the health law could include the provision and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has told states he is open to them adding work requirements to their programs. Also in the news: funding for the CHIP program is on the line this year, Florida lawmakers are wrestling with funding for hospitals that have large numbers of uninsured or Medicaid patients and Tufts Health Plan will manage a Medicaid program in Rhode Island.
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