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Picking Health Insurance Can be Hard. Here's How to be Smart About It
It's open enrollment — time to pick next year's insurance — for folks who buy it on their own and for many of us in our jobs. Lots of us aren't sure we know how to pick, and research shows: We're not wrong.
Report: Black Lung Funding Cut Will Cost Taxpayers Billions
A cut to the tax coal companies pay to fund a trust for sick miners will cost taxpayers at least $15 billion by 2050, according to a new report from a national watchdog group.
'Warm' Hotlines Deliver Help Before Mental Health Crisis Heats Up
Now anyone in California who needs a little help — or even a referral to a professional therapist — can receive it by phone or instant message.
West Virginians Head to Canada to Find Affordable Insulin
A group of West Virginians left the country Sunday in search of affordable insulin — they went to Canada, where insulin prices are reported to be about a tenth of what it costs people in the United States.
Pelosi Sets Medicare Showdown on Drug Costs and New Benefits
The House will hold a showdown vote next week on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, expanded Thursday to provide seniors with dental, vision and hearing benefits not currently covered.
Ice Bucket Challenge Inspiration Pete Frates Dies at 34
Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig's disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died Monday. He was 34.
Texas IDs Cancer Cluster in Polluted Houston Neighborhood
Texas health officials identified a cancer cluster in a north Houston neighborhood polluted by the wood preservative creosote from a nearby railroad operation.
Patient-Induced Trauma: Hospitals Learn To Defuse Violence
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workplace violence is four times more common in health care settings than in private industry on average, yet it still goes underreported.
Why Can it Be Hard to Stop Eating Even When You're Full?
In certain foods, a synergy between key ingredients can create an artificially enhanced palatability experience that is greater than any key ingredient would produce alone. Researchers call this hyperpalatability. Eaters call it delicious.
HHS Hands Out Free HIV Prevention Drugs. Do You Qualify?
The Trump administration Tuesday unveiled a plan to distribute HIV prevention medication free to individuals who do not have prescription drug insurance coverage.
Recovery Unplugged's Tips for Staying Sober During the Holidays
Recovery Unplugged 's co-founder and vision leader Paul Pellinger shares how to maintain gratitude and sobriety during the holidays.
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Heroin Kills 7 in California
A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California.
Experts Split Sharply over Experimental Alzheimer's Drug
A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer's disease made its case to scientists Thursday but left them sharply divided over whether there's enough evidence of effectiveness
How to Tell if Your Digital Addiction is Ruining Your Life
The fear that digital distractions are ruining our lives and friendships is widespread. To be sure, digital addiction is real.
Willie Nelson Says He's Not Smoking, but is Still Using Pot
Willie Nelson may have given up smoking, but he hasn't stopped using marijuana.
Why Your Generic Drugs May Not Be Safe and the FDA Too Lax
The FDA relies heavily on the honor system with foreign manufacturers, and U.S. consumers get burned.
Why the Nation Should Screen All Students for Trauma Like California Does
Surgeon General of California Dr. Nadine Burke Harris' vision of universal screening for trauma in children may be a massive undertaking, but it's also already under way.
For Artist Inspired By Illness, 'Gratitude Outweighs Pain'
People often ask Dylan Mortimer how it feels to breathe through transplanted lungs. He gets that a lot because while most people go through life with one pair of lungs, Mortimer is on his third.
Health Program Offers Free HIV Prevention Drug to Uninsured
The government launched a new program on Tuesday to provide an HIV prevention drug for free to people who need the protection but have no insurance to pay for it.
Biden Steps Up Hits on Buttigieg, Warren Over Health Care
Biden argued Tuesday that Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is riding his coattails in pushing for a "public option" government-insurance plan to be sold alongside private insurance.