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Weight-loss drugs draw Americans back to the doctor

By Deena Beasley(Reuters) - Powerful weight-loss drugs are expanding use of U.S. health care as patients starting prescriptions are diagnosed with obesity-related conditions or...

How UnitedHealthcare and other mega-insurers came to dominate the $4.5 trillion health care industry that Americans both hate and rely upon

We didn’t need the murder of an insurance company executive to tell us America’s health care system is broken. Researchers, journalists, and activists have...

UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooting opens a door for many to vent frustrations over insurance

For years, patients in the U.S. health care system have grown frustrated with a bureaucracy they don’t understand. Doctors are...

UnitedHealthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. but was unknown to...

Trump and Republicans in Congress eye an ambitious 100-day agenda, starting with tax cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tax break for millionaires, and almost everyone else. An end to the COVID-19-era government subsidies that...

Trump and Republicans in Congress eye an ambitious 100-day agenda, starting with tax cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tax break for millionaires, and almost everyone else. An end to the COVID-19-era government subsidies that...

A northern Alberta senior thought she was going into cardiac arrest. The medevac cost her $29K

There is no grocery store, post office or doctor's office in remote Fitzgerald, Alta.The northern community is more than 700 kilometres northeast of Edmonton...

Quebec will aim to ‘minimize’ impact of $1.5B cuts on health-care services

Quebec's newest Crown corporation, Santé Québec, officially takes control of the province's health-care system this weekend — and takes on the Herculean task of tackling an anticipated $1.5-billion...

Women say doctors don’t believe them when they’re in pain, sick or dying. Is there a way to fix it?

Michelle van Ryn, a physician and implicit bias educator, says how gender bias training is delivered is crucial to its success. (Submitted by Michelle...

Feds want $411 million to cover refugee health care as the number of new arrivals soars

The federal government is asking Parliament to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending to cover the health-care costs of eligible refugees...

Why the Affordable Care Act is in real trouble this time

In the leadup to this month’s election, House Speaker Mike Johnson promised that Republicans would make “massive” changes to the...

Nova Scotia election debate: Leaders clash over pace of health-care improvement

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's NDP and Liberal leaders attacked Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston's claims of reviving the province's ailing...

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