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An Iowa resident who recently traveled to West Africa died after a rare that can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, the CDC said.

A group of for allegedly underpaying hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients. (Reuters)

Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, the U.S. Surgeon General during the Trump administration, to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild on health" if he's re-elected. (Mother Jones)

of an infected dairy farm worker who developed conjunctivitis was transmissible and lethal in mice and ferrets. (Nature)

The overall rate of was 36.1 visits per 1,000 adults in 2020-2022; for Black Alzheimer's patients, it was 71.3 visits per 1,000. (NCHS Data Brief)

Up to half of Medicare beneficiaries with modest incomes may not have sufficient funds to for a hospital stay. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

A of men charged with protecting several U.S. presidents, French president Emmanuel Macron, and Russian president Vladimir Putin, a Le Monde investigation showed.

In a phase III trial, investigational among household contacts, developer Shionogi announced.

Free legal representation in housing court was tied to a among Medicaid-insured parents in New York City. (JAMA Pediatrics)

Survey data suggested that a ballot measure to enshrine will not reach the 60% threshold to pass. (The Hill)

Vitamin K2 significantly lowered the frequency, intensity, and duration of in a randomized trial of older adults. (JAMA Internal Medicine)

A New York Times investigation found that local governments paid steep fees when , thanks to to an obscure corporate partnership.

Washington, D.C., agencies after reports of patient-on-patient assaults and serious incidents at the city's only acute care psychiatric hospital. (Washington Post)

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Sick notes are an and workplace requirements to produce them for minor short-term illnesses should be eliminated, the Canadian Medical Association said.

Maine recommended that hunters harvested in certain parts of the state due to high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). (AP)