Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death of woman at slap therapy workshop The Killeen Daily Herald >View original article Contributor:
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The company has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients. View original article Contributor: Sarah Kliff and Reed Abelson
On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes and Tim Gruber
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials had planned to roll out the changes nationwide but said they were misunderstood. View original article Contributor: Roni Caryn Rabin
At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which H5N1 is circulating widely. That’s reassuring to scientists because it suggests the virus is spreading primarily through close … Read more
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people. Authorities have so far confirmed 71 deaths, including 27 people who died in hospitals and 44 in the community in the southern Kwango province, health minister Roger Kamba said. … Read more
What to make of the recent E. coli, salmonella and listeria outbreaks in the U.S. that led to food recalls of produce like carrots, cucumbers and even the slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. View original article Contributor: Elana Gordon, Lucy Perkins, Emma Talkoff, Reena Flores, Justin Gerrish, Tracy Jan
Connecticut’s attorney general said the change would have been “terrible” because neither patients nor anesthesiologists can control the length of a surgery. View original article Contributor: Jiselle Lee