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Washington expands health care for undocumented immigrants

March 12, 2024, 8:23pm Health

By the close of Washington’s legislative session last week, state lawmakers had added more funding to help reduce health care insurance costs for undocumented immigrants, as the state also prepares to expand Apple Health, its free or low-cost health insurance, to the same population in July. Read story

Hearing aids can be frustrating for older adults but are necessary because hearing loss raises the risk of cognitive decline, dementia, falls, depression and social isolation.

Specialists offer advice on how to use hearing aids and devices

Hearing aids can be frustrating for older adults but are necessary because hearing loss raises the risk of cognitive decline, dementia, falls, depression and social isolation.

March 12, 2024, 6:08am Health

It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Read story

A recenty survey found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not limited their phone or social media use.

Most teens are happy without phones

A recenty survey found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not limited their phone or social media use.

March 12, 2024, 6:04am Health

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Read story

California lawsuit spotlights broad legal attack on anti-bias training in health care

March 10, 2024, 6:00am Health

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training in implicit bias — the ways in which physicians’ unconscious attitudes might contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Read story

FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. White House officials will take more time to review a sweeping plan from U.S. health regulators to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that anti-tobacco groups fear could scuttle the long-awaited rule. Biden administration officials indicated Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 the process will continue into next year, targeting March to implement the rule, according to a regulatory agenda posted online. Previously, the rule was widely expected to be published in early January.

States consider menthol cigarette bans as feds delay action

FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. White House officials will take more time to review a sweeping plan from U.S. health regulators to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that anti-tobacco groups fear could scuttle the long-awaited rule. Biden administration officials indicated Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 the process will continue into next year, targeting March to implement the rule, according to a regulatory agenda posted online. Previously, the rule was widely expected to be published in early January.

March 10, 2024, 6:00am Health

It was just after sunset, and the evening traffic was buzzing on Highway 50 as 24-year-old Elijah Kinlaw popped into his local Walgreens in Clermont, Florida, to pick up some smokes. He had just finished a long day working at a local roofing company, and he was still wearing his… Read story

Springing forward into daylight saving time can affect health

March 9, 2024, 6:04am Health

Most of America will “spring forward” Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health. Read story

Nurses Fara Ajani, associate manager in medical services, peeks through the window of a patient room while making rounds in the COVID-19 unit at Parkland Hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, in Dallas. (Smiley N.

Absence of AI hospital rules worries nurses

Nurses Fara Ajani, associate manager in medical services, peeks through the window of a patient room while making rounds in the COVID-19 unit at Parkland Hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, in Dallas. (Smiley N.

March 9, 2024, 6:00am Health

For nurse Judy Schmidt, the beeping monitors hooked up to critical patients at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey, were just a normal part of the whirlwind of activity in the intensive care unit. Read story

With medical debt burdening millions, a financial regulator steps in to help

March 9, 2024, 6:00am Health

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: “looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, not investment houses.” Read story

Lead-tainted cinnamon has been recalled. Here’s what you should know

March 8, 2024, 3:28pm Business

Several U.S. discount retailers recalled packages of ground cinnamon after federal health officials warned that they were contaminated with high levels of lead. Read story

Obesity drug Wegovy is approved to cut heart attack and stroke risk in overweight patients

March 8, 2024, 12:29pm Health

The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, which has helped millions of Americans shed pounds, can now be used to reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other serious cardiovascular problems in patients who are overweight or who have obesity, federal regulators said Friday. Read story