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Coming soon to malls and offices: that provide full-body scanning and blood and skin testing with no doctor or nurse staffing the kiosks. (Forbes)

President Biden and China's president Xi Jinping agreed to take steps to . (AP)

The became the first diagnostic tool authorized for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing using at-home sample collection, the FDA said.

As part of payment reform, is expected to give a boost to primary care physicians and bolster the workforce. (CBS News)

After storming Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Israeli military produced video footage allegedly depicting Hamas weapons stashed there, some of them . (New York Times)

A surgeon there said that patients amid a lack of supplies. (Reuters)

The Biden-Harris Administration announced that nursing homes will be and other management information.

Referral to a large-scale, established behavior change program for prediabetes , researchers found. (Nature)

To control spending on semaglutide (Wegovy, Ozempic) for weight loss, Connecticut's state employee health plan is requiring that members . (Politico)

ProPublica investigation unearthed dozens of cases in which insurers .

Americans have more problems with affording medical care than , a Commonwealth Fund survey found.

Fiscal year 2023 saw a Medicare Fee-for-Service estimated , marking no change from 2022, CMS announced.

FAIR Health released a report showing that grew disproportionately from 2018 to 2022.

Oral nicotine pouches when tested against cigarettes in a randomized crossover study. (Addiction)

Following a complaint about unproven marketing claims, the company and its CEO selling as a contraceptive cream agreed to settle and enter a permanent injunction ordered by a federal court, the Department of Justice said.

More women joined a , which they say put their lives in danger during complicated pregnancies. (NPR)

A Massachusetts hospital said nearly 450 endoscopy patients were during IV medication administration. (WCVB)

How will the square its financial mismanagement and documentation problems? (Maryland Matters)

A recipient of a Make-A-Wish gift in 2013, is now a healthy teenager and survivor of childhood lymphoblastic leukemia. (NPR)

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    Nicole Lou is a reporter for , where she covers cardiology news and other developments in medicine.