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Dr. Michelle Gourdine, senior vice president of CVS Health and chief medical officer of CVS Caremark, speaks about the lack of trust in the health care system at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Dana Point, Calif., Monday, May 20, 2024.
Conferences

Top CVS medical officer ties shocking lack of ‘health literacy’ for 90 million Americans to crisis of ‘mistrust’

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May 20, 2024
‘Punched, kicked, grabbed, and brushed up against’—nurse’s husband sues employer after she was strangled while working
Health

‘Punched, kicked, grabbed, and brushed up against’—nurse’s husband sues employer after she was strangled while working

By Dave Collins and The Associated Press
May 6, 2024
A new survey about the U.S. health care system shows 75% of Americans think mental health issues are identified and treated “somewhat worse” or “much worse” than physical ailments.
Mind

75% of Americans think mental health issues are treated worse than physical illness, new survey says. Here’s why

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May 4, 2024
Texas vet who cares for 40,000 cattle said nearly every farm that had cows sick with bird flu also had sick workers: ‘I had people who never missed work, miss work’
Environment

Texas vet who cares for 40,000 cattle said nearly every farm that had cows sick with bird flu also had sick workers: ‘I had people who never missed work, miss work’

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press
May 1, 2024
Gavin Newsom
Politics

Frustrated by high drug prices, California will offer its own version of heavily discounted Narcan to stop fentanyl overdoses

By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
April 29, 2024
Cheng "Charlie" Saephan
Health

Cancer patient who won $1.3 billion lottery said he would find a good doctor for himself—’I don’t want to die yet,’ he prayed

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press
April 29, 2024
A scientist in a lab coat peers into a microscope in a lab.
Newsletters

AI for drug discovery draws a $1 billion launch—and a lot of hope

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April 25, 2024
Side view portrait of female scientist looking in microscope in neon light while doing research in laboratory
Health

A University of Oxford researcher is testing a revolutionary vaccine to prevent the onset of lung cancer

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April 24, 2024
Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University found that nonmedical cannabis use—regardless of how or how often it was consumed—lowered a person’s odds of subjective cognitive decline by 96%.
Mind

Recreational cannabis use may lower your risk of cognitive decline, study says

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April 19, 2024
Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors
Health

Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

By Phil Galewitz, Holly K. Hacker and KFF Health News
April 19, 2024
From April 2020 through September 2021, overall hospital visits for alcohol-related conditions spiked beyond what researchers expected, per a study published Friday.
Health

Alcohol-fueled hospital visits are spiking among middle-aged women, study says: ‘We simply just don’t know what’s causing this’

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April 15, 2024
Whereas traditional colonoscopy involves snaking a camera called a colonoscope through your colon and rectum, a CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, consists of X-rays and a computer creating 3D images of these organs.
Health

Virtual colonoscopy lets you skip the scope. Here’s what to know about the colorectal cancer screening Mark Cuban says saves time and money

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April 3, 2024
Actress Olivia Munn announced in a March 13, 2024, Instagram post that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, and credited Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi with calculating her disease risk and saving her life. “It would be my dream to have every single woman on the planet know their lifetime risk of breast cancer,” Aliabadi tells Fortune.
Health

The doctor who caught actress Olivia Munn’s breast cancer also diagnosed her own: ‘I don’t want another woman to go through what I went through’

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March 28, 2024
1 in 3 Americans who die in hospital had sepsis–and that’s just one of the many areas where AI can improve early diagnosis
Commentary

1 in 3 Americans who die in hospital had sepsis–and that’s just one of the many areas where AI can improve early diagnosis

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March 27, 2024
Catherine Duchess of Cambridge presents the winner trophy after the Men's Singles final between Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Roger Federer of Switzerland during Day thirteen of The Championships - Wimbledon 2019 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2019 in London, England.
Health

Kate Middleton diagnosed with cancer after abdominal surgery in ‘huge shock’ to British royal family

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March 22, 2024

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