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‘Gender Ideology’ Ban is Already Harming Health, Experts Say

Documents purged from government websites include guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care.

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Re-Creating the Patient Records Wheel, Once Again

(MedPage Today) -- How many times over the course of the years has it felt like you've had to do something that had already been done? A patient comes to you and says they had a test somewhere else a

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IG Live February 4: Public Health Under Attack

(MedPage Today) -- Within the first couple of weeks of his second term, President Trump has unleashed a blizzard of executive orders affecting public health through changes to federal health agency c

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Doctor, Patient Among Dead in Air Ambulance Crash in Philadelphia

(MedPage Today) -- A person in a car was the seventh fatal victim of the fiery crash of an air ambulance onto a busy Philadelphia street, authorities said Saturday, as investigators sifted through bu

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The first shot taken at Medicaid, and Optum’s wellness visit ad

In today's Health Care Inc. newsletter: The first shot taken at Medicaid, likely UnitedHealthcare coverage for Vertex's pain drug, and Optum’s wellness visit ad.

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Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contaminationThe exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasin

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An omega-3 dose a day could slow ageing process, ‘healthspan’ trial finds

Daily gram of essential fatty acid leads to ‘three to four months rejuvenation of biological age’ over three yearsA daily dose of omega-3 oils may slow the ageing process, according to a major cli

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Pfizer’s Braftovi extends survival in colorectal cancer

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about tariffs’ effect on drug costs, a scrapped vaccine plant expansion, and more

President Trump's tariffs on goods from Canada, China, and Mexico could raise health care costs for consumers

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The disappearing federal data

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