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Robots are roaming the hallways at El Camino Health, helping to deliver medications and take samples to the laboratory. They are among the new technologies implemented to improve efficiency while allowing clinicians to focus on patient care.

These technologies, which include artificial intelligence, are designed to help staff with menial tasks....Read more

Daria Van Tyne didn't expect to see changes in a population of bacteria taken from a UPMC hospital. Her hunch was wrong, but the results of her recent study point to a potential solution for antibiotic resistance.

Bacteria are ancient creatures that have learned advanced evolutionary behaviors over billions of years. The particular strain Van ...Read more

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burning homes, buildings, and cars, but it was unclear how much risk the public faced. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers.

Volckens shipped 10 ...Read more

Christopher Julian’s opioid journey is familiar to many Americans.

He was prescribed painkillers as a teenager for a series of sports injuries. He said the doctor never warned him they could be addictive. Julian didn’t learn that fact until years later, when he was cut off and began suffering withdrawal symptoms. At that point, he started ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week, even as a cruise ship arrived in Miami with another norovirus outbreak among passengers and crew.

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims.

The world’s largest online retailer tested a program, called Project Pulse, as a pilot in Amsterdam in November 2023, and expanded it to London and Bologna, Italy, according to...Read more

While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, research shows an increase in use over recent decades given the rise of technology and accessibility.

Pornography, meaning any media intended to depict or describe sexual content to heighten ...Read more

More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona.

So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots.

Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota and Washington, among other places.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal ...Read more

Why do we associate eggs with Easter? In ancient times, eggs were a sign of new life and rebirth. Christians eventually came to adopt the egg as a symbol of the Easter story when Jesus miraculously rose from the tomb.

Makes sense. Some experts have called eggs “a miracle of nature.” And lest I go down a rabbit trail of why Easter bunnies ...Read more

Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an unexpected tax bill this season.

But that isn’t the only potential shock. Other changes coming soon — stemming from proposals by the administration of President Donald Trump — could affect their coverage and its cost. And sorting out related problems...Read more

LAS VEGAS — More than three-quarters of Clark County schools began the academic year with a reported kindergarten vaccination rate of less than 95%, the threshold needed to prevent an outbreak of the highly contagious virus, new data shows.

Five percent, or 16 schools, reported rates below 80%, with one charter school as low as 33%, according...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown City Council appears poised to pass a resolution declaring the city a “safe haven” for transgender people seeking gender-affirming care.

Council member Natalie Santos introduced the proposal, which directs the city to “state its commitment” to LGBT human rights and health care access and directs city ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three people in Mammoth Lakes died recently after contracting hantavirus, the same infection that killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa earlier this year. The cases have heightened concerns among public health officials about the spread of the rare but deadly disease that attacks the lungs.

At a news conference last month, Dr...Read more

It's the most wonderful time of the year to be a basketball fan. And whether you're enjoying the memory of your alma mater's winning buzzer-beater in the NCAA tournament or hoping to see your favorite pro posterize an opponent in the NBA playoffs, all those high-flying jams and nothing-but-net 3-pointers might have you wondering, "Can I do that?...Read more

Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills for an estimated 20 million people.

Undue Medical Debt, which buys patient debt, is retiring $30 billion worth of unpaid bills in a single transaction with Pendrick Capital Partners, a Virginia-based debt...Read more

Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to maintain services and protect patients is to end their contracts with the private insurers.

Medicare Advantage plans pay hospitals lower rates than traditional Medicare, said Jason Merkley, ...Read more

MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that opened in 1952, officials were banking on its main funding source remaining stable: Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for low-income people and the disabled.

But those dollars are now in jeopardy, as ...Read more