Health

Biden administration proposes crackdown on scam Medicare ads

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed a ban on misleading ads for Medicare Advantage plans that have targeted older Americans and, in some cases, convinced them to sign up for plans that don't cover their doctors ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

New initiative takes aim at mental health crisis among refugees

U.S. troops' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan is something Hogai Nassery has been confronted by long after August 2021, when the last plane took off from Kabul, marking the end of the U.S." longest war. Starting last year, ...

Medications

Paxlovid soon will not be free for Americans

The antiviral Paxlovid has kept patients from becoming severely ill and dying from COVID-19 since it became available—at no cost to them. But by the middle of next year, the U.S. government will stop subsidizing the medication. ...

Medications

Five things to know about the cost of insulin

Just a few weeks after Elon Musk completed his chaotic buyout of Twitter, a phony account posing as pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly—with the Twitter handle @EliLillyandCo, a "verified" blue checkmark and the company logo—tweeted: ...

Medical economics

Study shows fewer uninsured children in Tennessee

The uninsured rate for children in Tennessee declined for the second straight year to just 2.3% for 2022—the lowest reported percentage since 2018, according to a new study by the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research ...

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