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Water for Babies Recalled Over Mold Issue

The Kroger Company has recalled Comforts FOR BABY Purified Water with Fluoride Added 1 GAL (3.78 L) with sell by dates from 4/26/2018 to 10/10/2018, after receiving complaints about mold in the product. Testing by Kroger has identified the mold as Talaromyces penicillium. The water is sold in clear containers, but the mold may not […]

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Health Nominee Takes Controversial Stand on Birth Control

President Trump’s new nominee for health and human services secretary had his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, where lawmakers grilled him about his position on birth control coverage. Trump’s pick, Alex Azar, said the agency should be weighing employers’ consciences against women’s birth control access. This suggests that he is aligned with the Trump administration’s […]

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Panel Calls for More Controls on Drug Prices

The U.S. must take urgent steps to rein in the out-of-control cost of prescription drugs, including aggressive government intervention to negotiate lower prices for American patients, a panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommended Thursday in a sweeping new report on pharmaceutical pricing. The report — titled “Making Medicines Affordable: A […]

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Co-Author Relays Concerns about President’s Sanity

Tony Schwartz, the co-author of President Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal,” claimed Wednesday that some people who work in the White House are concerned about Trump’s mental health. During an interview on MSNBC, Schwartz — a frequent Trump critic — said Trump is a “man who is deeply mentally ill.” Read More

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Industry Groups Push to Delay Obamacare Taxes

Industry groups are gearing up for a final push to repeal or delay taxes in ObamaCare before the end of the year. Stalling the taxes on medical devices and health insurance, which were included in the health-care law to help pay for its coverage expansion, has been a rare area of some bipartisan cooperation on […]

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Medical Prison Warden Reassigned

ATLANTA — The warden at a troubled medical prison in Georgia has been reassigned to his previous job. Warden Scott Wilkes is being moved from the Augusta State Medical Prison to the Augusta Transitional Center, Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Joan Heath told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . He was promoted from the transitional center to […]

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Little Sisters of the Poor Battles States Over Birth Control

Little Sisters of the Poor battles states in court over birth control mandate. The Catholic charity Little Sisters of the Poor is fighting an effort by California and Pennsylvania to block the Trump administration’s effort to roll back Obamacare’s birth control mandate. The charity was part of a large lawsuit brought by religious nonprofits that […]

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Telehealth Program Improves Veterans’ Access to Care

The Birmingham Veterans Administration and Cullman County Health Department held a ribbon cutting Tuesday for a new telehealth program. The Alabama Public Health Telehealth Network allows veterans to go to the Cullman County Health Department and connect remotely for a visit with their provider in Birmingham, using a secure audio-video internet connection. Read More

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GAO: VA Failed to Report Bad Medical Providers

A new GAO report exposes that Veterans Affairs shamefully put veterans lives at risk by failing its duty to report bad doctors and other clinicians. The GAO report confirms a USA Today report exposing VA has concealed and avoided investigations and mandated reporting of bad health care workers for many years. Maybe if VA had […]

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What If Amazon Got Into the Pharmacy Business?

People are starting to seriously think about what it might mean if Amazon were to get into the healthcare industry. In a 70-page report released Monday, analysts at Morgan Stanley broke down all of the potential ways Amazon could get into the industry, at varying degrees of involvement. Read More

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Anti-Smoking Ads Begin After Decade Of Delay

WASHINGTON — Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies have returned to prime-time television, but not by choice. Under court order, the tobacco industry for the first time will be forced to advertise the deadly, addictive effects of smoking, more than 11 years after a judge ruled that the companies had […]

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Obamacare Enrollment Surges in Wyoming

Three weeks into open enrollment, more than 8,300 Wyomingites have signed up for insurance on the health care exchange, a surge of nearly 2,000 people compared to a similar period last year. The figures, provided Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, show 8,348 people have purchased a plan through HealthCare.Gov between Nov. […]

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