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N.J. lawmakers pledge to improve mental health care. Here’s how.

New Jersey lawmakers are calling for a coordinated effort to improve access and affordability for mental health care, just days…

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How the pandemic may fundamentally change the health-care system

Welcome to Friday’s Health 202, where today we have a special spotlight on the pandemic two years in. Send us…

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Nonprofit Feed the Frontlines NYC works with local restaurants to provide free meals to health care workers and New Yorkers in need

NEW YORK — We are approaching the two-year anniversary of New York City restaurants shutting down because of COVID. One…

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High health care expenses might keep Cumberland employees from seeing lower deductibles

Cumberland County commissioners Larry Lancaster (left) and Jeannette Council (right) hold a discussion on the side during an agenda session…

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Biden names member of Navajo Nation to serve as head of tribal health care

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he is nominating veteran health administrator Roselyn Tso to oversee the federal…

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Why U.S. drugmakers and other health care companies aren’t leaving Russia

Even as the war in Ukraine has prompted an exodus of international companies — from fast-food chains and oil producers…

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More States Are Proposing Single-payer Health Care. Why Aren’t They Succeeding?

The Democratic presidential primary might feel like a lifetime ago, but one important storyline in that race was health care…

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First it was pizza and nightly applause. Now, hospitals look at longer-term solutions to support exhausted health care workers

© Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS Eve Poczatek, director of the Center for Clinical Wellness, distributes flyers with information about employee access…

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W.H.O. condemns attacks on health care services in Ukraine and calls for safe passage for medical supplies.

With the health care system in Ukraine facing urgent supply shortages, the head of the World Health Organization’s European region…

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More than $1 billion could be forfeited in health-care flexible spending accounts this year

Although the rules governing FSAs temporarily were eased to give participants more time to spend their money, not all companies…