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FTC Sues Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Insulin Prices

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Documentary Explores Racism, Gatekeeping in Nursing

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Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease

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Is Healthcare Consolidation Fueling the Physician Burnout Crisis?

New report finds pandemic burnout is still lingering

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House Staff Unionization Has Come in Waves

Residents' efforts to organize date back some 90 years

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FDA Rejects NK1R Antagonist for Gastroparesis

Drugmaker none-too-pleased with agency's request for additional studies

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After Georgia Deaths Tied to Abortion Ban, Experts Maintain Safety of Abortion Pills

Facts about mifepristone and misoprostol

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What to Know About 'Raccoon Roundworm'

Stay away from raccoon latrines

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Critics Call Feds' Response to Cyberattacks on Healthcare Feeble and Fractured

There were 249 attacks targeting health institutions in 2023, the most of any industry

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Docs Accused of Treating Fatal COVID With Peroxide; Cardiologists' Defamation Suit

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Is Wegovy Shrinking Bariatric Surgery, Too?

GLP-1 drugs have the potential to reduce healthcare costs in unexpected ways

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California Pledges to Halve Maternal Mortality By Late 2026

But how will the state with the lowest maternal mortality rate do it?

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California Clarifies Role of CRNAs Amid Scope-of-Practice Clash

Letter says CRNAs can administer anesthesia that's ordered by a physician

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