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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making her the health agency’s first permanent director in roughly a year

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Former Cain Park General Manager Suzanne Conway told city officials that her new job was already taking a toll on her health, prompting her to quit after about six months

The Western Australian Opposition has called on the state’s government to explain how almost $1 billion in WA Health payments were allowed to pass through a system it described as “plagued by weak controls, inadequate documentation and failures to follow basic procurement requirements”

Rosemary Westwood is examining public health in Louisiana forVerite Newsas a part of The New York Times’sLocal Investigations Fellowship

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Attorneys general from several states are bringing Meta Platforms to court over claims that the company’s products are addictive to kids and teens, and that Meta failed to warn the public

While lung cancer mortality in the United States has declined significantly since 1990, incidence trends have been more nuanced. New lung cancer cases have fallen in men since the mid-1980s and in women since the mid-2000s, declining annually by 3.0% and 1.4%, respectively, from 2012 to 2021

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The architect of a key government initiative aimed at improving children’s health across several indicators told the Daily Caller News Foundation why the issue is especially important now and how it fits into the broader Make America Healthy Again movement

USF Health, Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and the Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI), successfully performed the first implantation in the state of InCompass, the newly FDA-cleared device for total ankle replacement. The InCompass Total Ankle System by Stryker marks a major milestone in orthopaedic innovation and TGH is just the fifth hospital in the nation to…

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein approved a $319 million plan Thursday to plug a funding gap for the state’s Medicaid program — a move that ensures continued healthcare for millions of North Carolinians. But Republicans and Democrats acknowledged that more work needs to be done to find a sustainable, long-term funding solution for a program…