Senators reach deal on resuming payments to health insurers
WASHINGTON | Key senators reached a breakthrough deal Tuesday on resuming federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has blocked. Insurers had warned that unless the money is...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Doctors clash over euthanasia for mentally ill
GHENT, Belgium | After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that Geerts’ judgment was...
View ArticleTrump to tackle opioid addiction in White House speech
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump is poised to deliver a major speech Thursday on fighting the opioid epidemic, the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. “We’re going to have a big meeting on...
View ArticleDoctors: Global warming is taking a toll on people’s health
WASHINGTON | Global warming is hurting people’s health a bit more than previously thought, but there’s hope that the Earth — and populations — can heal if the planet kicks its coal habit, a group of...
View ArticleHalf of US adults have high blood pressure in new guidelines
ANAHEIM, Calif. | New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly half of U.S. adults. High pressure,...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body
OAKLAND, Calif. | Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person’s DNA to try to cure a disease. The experiment was done...
View ArticleA better mammogram? Huge study putting 3-D scans to the test
WASHINGTON | A better mammogram? Increasingly women are asked if they want a 3-D mammogram instead of the regular X-ray — and now U.S. health officials are starting a huge study to tell if the newer,...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Poor health and high expectations for Medicaid
WASHINGTON | People on Medicaid are more prone to smoke, struggle with depression and obesity, or rate their own health as fair or poor. But that’s not the whole story. A new study suggests that...
View ArticleScientists call on US to allow research on pot meds for pets
BEND, Ore. | Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They’re selling well. “The ‘Up and Moving’ is for joints and for pain,” he...
View ArticleMore than 500 hospitalized during severe Colorado flu season
DENVER | Colorado health officials say this year’s flu season has affected more than three times the number of people it usually does. The Denver Post reported Wednesday that the state typically has...
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