Category: Health Care
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LinkedIn Hit With Wave of Health Data Claims Under California Privacy Law
Business-focused social media platform LinkedIn has been slapped with three digital privacy class actions contending that it illegally intercepted users’ sensitive health care…
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Opinion: Women’s reproductive freedom, health on the ballot in Pa., vote to defend them
We knew what would happen when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We knew politicians in many states…
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Other voices: Simple economics can help cut health care costs
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The Role of Illinois’s Tech Industry in Global Health Initiatives
Illinois has emerged as a significant player in the global tech space, particularly in the field of health technology. With…
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How Ferguson, Reichert want to fix WA’s mental health system
The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded…
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Trump’s Health Care Policies Put Patients First | Opinion
Throughout the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris has attacked former president Donald Trump with dire, misleading warnings about…
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This Essential Health Care Program Could Get Hammered If Donald Trump Wins
LOADINGERROR LOADING One of Donald Trump’s best-known promises ― and quite possibly one of his most important, politically ― is…
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Does Kamala Harris have bigger plans than tweaks to the Affordable Care Act?
Since Democrats hotly debated the issue in their 2020 presidential primary debates, health care has faded as an urgent national…
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More employer health benefits are covering weight loss drugs, study shows
“I think these drugs are so astronomically expensive that employers really are trying to sort this out, how much can…
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
By AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter…