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Police investigating the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby worked have widened their inquiries to include gross negligence manslaughter by senior staff. Cheshire constabulary says it has expanded its inquiry into the Countess of Chester hospital despite growing questions around Letby’s…

KAMPALA, Uganda — Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent’s public health agency said Thursday, ahead of a meeting with regional health ministers to discuss other financing…

Nick Triggle Health correspondent Helen Catt Political correspondent PA Media The government has announced NHS England will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy” and reform how the National Health Service is run. The changes will not impact anyone’s access to the…

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of its pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Dave Weldon, a Republican former congressman who was to have appeared at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday morning. Reached by…

Beauty & Health Editor Hannah Frye is the Beauty & Health Editor at mindbodygreen. She has a B.S. in journalism and a minor in women’s, gender, and queer studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Hannah has written…

Scientists who research vaccine hesitancy and uptake are seeing their federal funding cut, under a Trump administration move. It’s part of a swathe of cuts to ongoing research funded by NIH. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty…

I used to think I was great at therapy. From 17 to 23, I saw a total of four therapists for anywhere between two weeks and three months. Each time, I would sit in their quiet, softly furnished rooms and…

(MedPage Today) — The FDA has allowed a substantial amount of late reports and undated reports into its Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) safety database, researchers confirmed. During a 3.5-year period in 2019-2022, there… Source link

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Dan Weissmann The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit reports and went after debt collectors who pressured…