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Covered California Premiums Rise Again as Uninsured Californians Under 65 Are Projected to Nearly Double by 2030
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (958+ words) California is heading toward a sharp rise in residents without health insurance, and the head of the state's marketplace is describing the moment in blunt terms. "It's triage," Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman told KFF Health News in a…...
De Todito Chips Recalled Again Because Their Pork Cracklings Came From Colombia, Which Is Barred From Exporting Meat
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (968+ words) El Eden Import Distributor Corp., a Long Island City, New York, importer, is recalling about 264 pounds of De Todito mixed chip snacks because the pork cracklings inside were produced in Colombia, a country not eligible to export meat products to…...
Federal Regulators Bar Eleven Medical Equipment Suppliers That Billed Medicare for Beneficiaries Who Had Already Died
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (1028+ words) For families, that detail is the part worth pausing on. Claims filed under a dead relative's Medicare number are not an abstract accounting problem. They generate real paperwork, land in real statements, and are frequently discovered by an adult child…...
Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (842+ words) Most people assume the pancreas sits in front of the large veins that drain the gut and the spleen. In a small share of the population, it does not. A collar of pancreatic tissue loops behind the portal vein and…...
Troy Kept Its Birthing Center After a Public Campaign, but Hundreds of Maternity Units Have Closed
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1040+ words) Troy, New York, kept the last birthing center in Rensselaer County. Trinity Health, the Michigan-based system that owns Samaritan Hospital, reversed its closure plan nearly a year after announcing it, following a campaign that pulled together the city's Republican mayor,…...
Hubble and James Webb Space TelescopesSix Months of Foul Discharge From One Nostril Led Doctors to a Tooth Erupting Inside a Man's Nose
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (635+ words) For six months, a 45-year-old man dealt with foul-smelling discharge from his right nostril and nosebleeds that came and went. When doctors looked inside with an endoscope, they saw a hard white mass sitting on the floor of his right…...
Many Cecil County Families Face Hourlong Drives to Give Birth After the County's Only Maternity Unit Closed
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (749+ words) Expectant families in Cecil County, Maryland, have had no hospital in the county where they can give birth since June 30, when ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elkton closed its Family Birth Center. More than two months later, county leaders say a…...
Schools Are Stocking Anti-Choking Suction Devices, but Only One Is FDA Authorized and Only as a Backup
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (746+ words) That order matters because a person who cannot breathe can suffer brain injury within minutes. The FDA warns that using a device before established protocols "could delay critical life-saving action," partly because taking a device out of its packaging and…...
Planned San Diego Power Outages Continue This Week and Home Medical Equipment Users Should Prepare Now
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (914+ words) Dozens of San Diego County neighborhoods are scheduled to lose power for stretches of several hours between Wednesday and Friday while crews carry out repairs and system upgrades, and for households that run oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines, powered wheelchairs, or…...
A Tennessee Forensic Center Now Links 63 Deaths to a Synthetic Opioid Federal Officials Flagged in April
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (904+ words) The Knox County Regional Forensic Center in East Tennessee has now associated 63 deaths with cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid that federal drug policy officials flagged nationally in April. The center's chief administrative officer, Chris Thomas, said the drug was determined to…...