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Louisiana lawmakers vote to make abortion pills controlled substances

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State abortion laws have created confusion, particularly in 2022, when a woman was denied an abortion because the fatal condition of her fetus was not clearly listed as a medical…

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Ascension hospitals are victims of cyberattacks, causing delays in patient care

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While some previous cyberattacks have targeted a single hospital or smaller medical networks, the collapse of Change, which manages a third of all U.S. medical records, underlined the dangers of…

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Senators see possible conflicts of interest in health care pricing tools

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In a statement, MultiPlan said it is working with Senate committees "to answer their questions and explain the costs and complexity patients may face" when choosing expensive care outside their…

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Sue Johnson, the psychologist who had a scientific vision of love, dies at 76 – Generic English

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Related media - Associated media Susan Maureen Driver was born on December 19, 1947 in Gillingham, England, the only child of Arthur and Winifred Driver. The Drivers ran a pub…

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Cannabis surpasses alcohol as Americans’ favorite daily drug – Generic English

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Associated media - Related media In 1995, the concentration of THC in cannabis samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration was approximately 4%. In 2021 it was around 15%. And…

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FDA Panel Approves Safety of Guardant Blood Test for Colon Cancer – Generic English

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Related media - Linked media The biggest problem with blood tests is that, unlike colonoscopies, they don’t detect most precancerous growths on the colon that, if detected and removed, would…