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‘All hands on deck’: Bird flu in US poultry puts state cooperation to the test

Unusually late migration season means poultry operations may continue to see H5N1 outbreaks, officials sayMaryland has detected bird flu among three different commercial poultry flocks in the past wee

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When the Retirement Community Goes Bankrupt

It doesn’t happen often. But when it does, some residents risk losing everything.

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Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’

The positions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines and drug companies are well known. His approach to addiction has been far less scrutinized.

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Days From Trump Inauguration, Journalists Weigh California, Federal Health Policies

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on regional media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?

When his friend, the legendary songwriter, had a catastrophic stroke, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin put together a programme of music therapy.

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After call to overhaul diagnosis of obesity, how can you tell if your weight is a problem?

Report by Lancet Commission says BMI should be used as ‘screening tool’ rather than determining factorThis week, doctors confirmed what many people have felt for a long time: the way we think abou

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Opinion: Former Trump health official: Medicare should cover Wegovy — but not negotiate its price

Former Trump administration health official Joe Grogan applauds Biden proposal that Medicare and Medicaid cover GLP-1 weight-loss drugs — but says subjecting Wegovy to price controls is a bad move.

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Brain Changes Emerge Decades Before Huntington's Diagnosis

(MedPage Today) -- Changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NfL) protein and proenkephalin (PENK) emerged decades before clinically diagnosable Huntington's disease.

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Iffy Follow-Up Care for Many Patients With High-Risk HPV, Study Finds

(MedPage Today) -- Less than half of patients who were positive for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) with negative cytologic findings were retested during the guideline-recommended time frame, a

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