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Feds Chop Enforcement Staff and Halt Rules Meant To Curb Black Lung in Coal Miners

The Trump administration has paused implementation of a rule limiting miners’ exposure to airborne silica dust days after a federal court agreed to put it on hold to hear an industry challenge.

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Language Service Cutbacks Raise Fear of Medical Errors, Misdiagnoses, Deaths

Federal cuts are hurting community organizations in California that provide language assistance services to people who speak limited English.

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A Medicaid Patient Had a Heart Attack While Traveling. He Owed Almost $78,000.

Federal law says Medicaid must cover out-of-state emergency care. But a Florida man got a five-figure bill after a South Dakota hospital declined to charge his state’s Medicaid program.

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Opinion: How we beat anti-vaccination bills in North Dakota

You can’t fact-check fear, and other lessons from successful campaigns against anti-vaccine bills in North Dakota.

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STAT+: AI-based mammography is here, and it has a trust problem

Radiologists interpret more than 40 million mammograms in the United States every year.

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Opinion: The U.S. medical system is overrun with ‘numerical epidemics’

“We are squandering trillions of dollars, often to the detriment of our patients, merely to push a number across some arbitrary line of what we call ‘normal.

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Buy an exclusive print from our Well Actually series

Explore 6 new exclusive prints from our Well Actually series. Available only until Saturday, June 7.

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USV launches ‘United for BP Control’ initiative with WHL and Indian Society of Hypertension

New initiative aims to improve hypertension awareness, screening, and treatment adherence across India

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Your microbiome questions answered: part two – podcast

Ian Sample is joined by Dr James Kinross, colorectal surgeon and author of the book Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome, to answer all your questions about gut health.

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Health secretary urges no strikes as ballot of UK junior doctors begins

Patients Association fears winter of delays as Wes Streeting calls for no vote from resident doctors who argue pay has fallen 23% in real terms since 2008The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has urged

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