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Starting in July, Medicare beneficiaries may be able to get a GLP-1 prescription for weight loss for $50 a month. It’s a notable shift for Medicare, which has long been barred from covering weight loss treatments. The drugs, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, are effective...

Spain's health ministry said the MV Hondius is expected to arrive within three to four days. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical...

Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Dan: Hey there–  Dr. Anmol Gupta is a resident physician at...

Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante. It is urging the public to report hospitals and nursing homes that serve sugary drinks,...

In 2019, Mia Tretta, then a high school freshman at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, was struck in the stomach by a round from a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun fired by a schoolmate. Two students were killed during the attack, including her best...

Thousands of patients will be offered a new injectable form of an immunotherapy drug that takes minutes. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Marian Krawczyk, researcher in end-of-life care at the University of Glasgow and founder of the End-of-Life Doula International Research group, says end-of-life care has to evolve, because the way people die has changed, with fewer people having short infectious...

Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and winter, immigration attorneys say. Use...

Olivier Picard, chair of the National Pharmacy Association, who also runs a pharmacy, says the current system is broken: "I lose money on over 300 medications, and they are standard everyday items like blood thinners, blood pressure meds and painkillers - the...

The Host Republicans and Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee had strong words for hospital CEOs about their prices at a hearing this week. But it remains unclear whether they will follow up their words with actions to force prices down. Meanwhile, in a...

Ministers say the new law in England gives power to local people who want to help others. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source