January 2024

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When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she would not incur a bill because the test is one of the many preventive measures guaranteed to be free to patients under the 2010…

A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday launched an examination of assisted living, holding its first hearing in two decades on the industry as leaders of both parties expressed concern about the high cost and mixed quality of the…

It’s daggers out at the Federal Trade Commission in its fight against anticompetitive practices in health care. This past year, it has issued more stringent guidelines to block and discourage hospital mergers, and it …

Chantal Panozzo and her husband followed their primary care doctors’ orders last year after they both turned 45, now the recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer. They scheduled their first routine colonoscopies a…

Lewis Morgenstern ha tomado una decisión. Cuando cumpla 65, dentro de cuatro años, va a firmar una directiva anticipada sobre conducir. El documento indicará que se alejará del volante cuando sus hijos se lo pidan. “Es…

Con alrededor de 20,000 muertes a causa de covid en Estados Unidos desde principios de octubre, y decenas de miles más en el extranjero, la pandemia claramente no ha terminado. Sin embargo, la respuesta a la crisis sí, ya que la…

In the year and a half since its launch, 988 — the country’s easy-to-remember, three-digit suicide and crisis hotline — has received about 8.1 million calls, texts, and chats. While much attention has been focused on who is…

Judith Graham Lewis Morgenstern has made up his mind. When he turns 65 in four years, he’s going to sign an advance directive for driving. The directive will say that when his children want him to stop getting behind the wheel,…

Medicare Advantage plans are booming — 30.8 million of the 60 million Americans with Medicare are now enrolled in the private plans rather than the traditional government-run program. But a little-known fact: Once you’re in a…