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This Bill Aims To Help Firefighters With Cancer. Getting It Passed Is Just the Beginning.

Amid the Los Angeles wildfires, California's U.S. senators cosponsored legislation that would provide support to first responders who develop or die from service-related cancers.

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Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags.

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Slashed Federal Funding Cancels Vaccine Clinics Amid Measles Surge

Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination clinics across the country, including in Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, and Washington state, amid a rise in v

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Public health leaders, besieged and regretful, talk of re-establishing trust

Public health leaders met to celebrate the field but also to talk about regret and strategies for re-establishing public trust, for example, empathetic listening.

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Opinion: The invisibility of good public health work

“There is a mission to do”: How two local public health officials are tackling their work in a moment of uncertainty.

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Opinion: AI scribe technology lets me focus on my patients, not a screen

“Having an AI scribe means I have more quality time with my patients,” writes physician Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli.

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STAT+: AI agents in health care: Everything you need to know, but didn’t know how to ask

AI agents are finding their way into the world of health care, but tech developers may be more excited than clinicians.

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STAT+: Debate over soda, candy bans shows how MAHA is scrambling old alliances

Low-income Americans could soon have new constraints on how they shop for food under bills in more than a dozen states.

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Sahyadri Hospitals launches cancer support group and radiotherapy system to strengthen comprehensive oncology care

The 'Beaming Hope' initiative and deployment of the Varian TrueBeam system aim to improve patient outcomes and support systems across Maharashtra’s oncology landscape

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‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce.

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