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Drawn-Out Overhaul of Troubled Montana Hospital Leaves Lawmakers in Limbo

Unsure how to help the troubled psychiatric facility, legislators look to shore up other parts of the state’s mental health system.

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Most Insurance Covers IUDs. Hers Cost More Than $14,000.

The Affordable Care Act requires most insurance plans to cover preventive care, including many forms of contraception, without cost to patients — but not if they’re “grandfathered” plans, whic

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STAT+: Trump’s first term birthed the March for Science. Where are the science activists now?

Eight years after the first March for Science, there are no plans for another march at the dawn of a second Trump administration

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Opinion: How to protect HHS, FDA, NIH, and other health agencies from political interference

When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts and inflict lasting damage on institutional credibility.

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With little fanfare, Biden administration stacked vaccine advisory committee with new members

With little fanfare, the Biden administration stacked a critical committee that helps set U.S. vaccination policy with new members before leaving office.

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Opinion: AI forces doctors to reconsider the nature of diagnosis

Today's medical AI systems represent not just a new diagnostic tool, but a new kind of medical reasoning altogether, writes Lakshmi Krishnan.

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Delays to post-Brexit border checks may have let diseased chicken enter UK

Exclusive: Officials admitted in 2023 there were ‘no current border checks’, as salmonella and other illnesses surgedUK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wa

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Thyroid awareness month highlights importance of early detection and treatment: GlobalData

Raising awareness of early detection and treatment to improve thyroid health outcomes globally

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Scheme to attract trainee doctors to England’s deprived areas at risk, GPs say

Royal College of GPs says threat of cut to TERS programme ‘alarming’ and would exacerbate health inequalitiesA scheme that helps attract trainee doctors to work in economically deprived areas is a

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