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What science has to say about so-called COVID superdodgers

5:14am September 28, 2022

Throughout the pandemic, some people have avoided catching COVID — despite multiple exposures. Do their immune systems have some type of protection that others are missing?

Aerial view of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Some hospitals in Texas and around the U.S. are seeing high profits, even as their bills force patients into debt. Of the nation's 20 most populous counties, none has a higher concentration of medical debt than Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth.

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Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt

5:01am September 28, 2022

by Noam Levey

Across the U.S., many hospitals have become wealthy, even as their bills force patients to make gut-wrenching sacrifices. This pattern is especially stark for health care systems in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Two people work on boarding up a house in South Tampa Bay, Florida, on Tuesday, before Hurricane Ian hits the area.

Some don't evacuate, despite repeated hurricane warnings, because they can't

5:00am September 28, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

People with disabilities, people who can't afford it and people who don't want to abandon their pets are among the many who can't easily get up and leave before a hurricane.

President Biden has set an ambitious goal of ending hunger in America by 2030

4:56pm September 27, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

For the first time in 50 years, the White House will host a conference on hunger. On the agenda: ideas like expanding school lunch programs and updating nutrition labels.

The White House is proposing pilot programs for Medicare to cover medically tailored meals — like the ones in this file photo — as well as nutrition and obesity counselling.

Why the White House wants to put nutrition labels on the front of food packages

2:49pm September 27, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

The Biden administration unveiled its plan to end hunger and diet-related diseases in eight years — 40 pages of ideas to make nutritious food easier to get in America.

A person wearing a mask walks past a flower display in front of a supermarket on Front Street East in Toronto on Sept. 16.

Canada's government says it will stop requiring masks on airplanes

11:15am September 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Government officials also confirmed Canada is dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of the month.

A group shot of Freedom House paramedics.

At Freedom House, these Black men saved lives. Paramedics are book topic

6:00am September 27, 2022

by Bill O'Driscoll

These Black men saved lives a half-century ago. A new book highlights their successes and the challenges they had to face. Some now want to make sure that memory is not forgotten.

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Montana health officials are seeking to increase oversight of nonprofit hospitals amid debate about whether they pay their fair share. The proposal comes nine months after a KHN investigation found that some of Montana's wealthiest hospitals, such as the Billings Clinic, lag behind state and national averages in community giving.

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Montana health officials call for more oversight of nonprofit hospitals

5:01am September 27, 2022

by Katheryn Houghton

Montana is one of the latest states to suggest many nonprofit hospitals aren't giving back enough in charitable contributions to the community to justify their tax-exempt status.

Pfzier and Moderna seek authorization of omicron booster for kids ages 5-11

6:09pm September 26, 2022

by Rob Stein

Pfzier-BioNTech and Moderna are asking the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the new omicron boosters for young children.

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Allison Case is a family medicine physician who is licensed to practice in both Indiana and New Mexico. Via telehealth appointments, she's used her dual license in the past to help some women who have driven from Texas to New Mexico, where abortion is legal, to get their prescription for abortion medication. Then came Indiana's abortion ban.

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Telemedicine abortions just got more complicated for health providers

2:03pm September 26, 2022

by Farah Yousry

Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors. "We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," says one legal scholar.