Medicare to start negotiating prices for 10 drugs. Here they are.
The Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It's starting with insulin and other commonly used medications.
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The Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It's starting with insulin and other commonly used medications.
Three additional conditions have been approved for the Minnesota Department of Health's Newborn Screening Program.
In some places, the emergence of new COVID-19 variants is spurring the return of mask requirements and other safety measures.
So far, the CDC doesn't think the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant is to blame.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services backed off from a plan that could have curtailed access to a type of reconstructive surgery known as DIEP flap. Breast cancer patient advocates are relieved.
Nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association plan to testify, saying billing practices can compromise access to care for Minnesotans.
Using eye drops contaminated with bacteria can lead to a "life-threatening infection," FDA warns.
For Fischer and her son, Paul Benally, the first health scare came 11 years ago when he was bit by a mosquito and contracted encephalitis, which caused his brain to swell. That was only the beginning.
Expectant parents could soon have another new option this fall to protect their newborns from RSV, the most common cause of hospitalization in American infants.
On social media, the variants have been nicknamed "Eris," "Fornax" and "Pirola."
Earlier this year, Teegan Olson was diagnosed with an MEF2C mutation, a genetic disorder so rare only about 350 people are known to have it in the world, and many of them are children.
The immune response may be stronger if your booster goes in the same arm as your last COVID-19 shot, according to a published study.
More pressing, hospitalizations have risen by nearly 27%. That marks the fourth-largest growth in the country currently among states.
A South Dakota state lawmaker is resigning after agreeing to repay $500,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funding her day care business received in violation of the state constitution.
A quick-thinking mother was honored this week for helping save a man's life earlier in the summer.
