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Horse Sedative Use Among Humans Spreads in Deadly Mixture of ‘Tranq’ and...

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Andrew McClave Jr. loved to lift weights. The 6-foot-4-inch bartender resembled a bodybuilder and once posed for a photo flexing his muscles with former pro wrestler Hulk...

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Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States

Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth. At...

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Hacking at UnitedHealth Unit Cripples a Swath of the US Health System: What...

Early in the morning of Feb. 21, Change Healthcare, a company unknown to most Americans that plays a huge role in the U.S. health system, issued a brief statement saying some of its applications were...

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Mezcla letal: se extiende el uso de fentanilo con sedantes para caballos

TREASURE ISLAND, Florida. — Andrew McClave Jr. amaba levantar pesas. El mesero de 6’ 4” de altura parecía un fisicoculturista. Hasta posó para una foto inflando sus músculos con el ex luchador...

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America Worries About Health Costs — And Voters Want to Hear From Biden and...

President Joe Biden is counting on outrage over abortion restrictions to help drive turnout for his reelection. Former President Donald Trump is promising to take another swing at repealing Obamacare....

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Statistical Models vs. Front-Line Workers: Who Knows Best How to Spend Opioid...

MOBILE, Ala. — In this Gulf Coast city, addiction medicine doctor Stephen Loyd announced at a January event what he called “a game-changer” for state and local governments spending billions of dollars...

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Whistleblower Accuses Aledade, Largest US Independent Primary Care Network,...

A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using...

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How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health

Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even...

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Movimientos en contra de las vacunas perjudican a los niños más vulnerables

Gayle Borne ha cuidado a más de 300 niños en Springfield, Tennessee. Niños que rara vez han visto a un médico y que han sido tan descuidados que ni siquiera pueden hablar. Una ley que este estado...

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West Virginia City Once Battered by Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County. The arrival of prescription opioids onto seemingly...

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