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Covered California Pushes for Better Health Care as Federal Spending Cuts Loom

Monica Soni, Covered California’s chief medical officer, oversees an effort to hold health plans financially accountable for the quality of care they provide, including childhood vaccination rates,

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Government watchdog is scrutinizing Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements

The GAO plans to release a report on the cost of the country’s only active Medicaid work requirement program.

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Opinion: Why it’s still unclear exactly how much banning soda from SNAP could improve health

It's been an uphill battle to collect data that can prove eliminating the use of SNAP benefits to buy sugary drinks will actually improve health.

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Opinion: Public health still hasn’t reckoned with which Covid policies and interventions failed

If science is to reclaim credibility, it must be seen interrogating its own failures, not shielding them. That is particularly true when it comes to Covid.

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Apollo Diagnostics launches fully automated Digi-Smart Central Reference Laboratory in Chennai

New facility integrates five major lab disciplines to cut turnaround time by 60 per cent, supporting faster diagnostic decisions across India and Southeast Asia

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US diagnostic imaging market faces tariff-driven supply chain and capital risks, reveals GlobalData

New tariffs drive uncertainty in diagnostic imaging procurement, with hospitals and manufacturers facing rising costs, delayed investments, and disrupted access to CT and MRI systems, says GlobalData

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Federal Report Denounces Gender Treatments for Adolescents

The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement.

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STAT+: NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns

NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding

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Stark social divides in infectious disease admission rates in England, study finds

UKHSA says people in most deprived areas almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital as those in least deprivedPeople in the most deprived areas of England are almost twice as likely to be admit

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U.S. Prosecutors Accuse Large Insurers of Paying Kickbacks for Private Medicare Plans

The Justice Department accused large insurers of colluding with national brokers to steer older people and those with disabilities toward coverage that might not offer the best medical care.

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