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They calculated that New York nursing home families would move on. They were wrong.

11 June 2026 at 18:00
Families of over 15,000 New Yorkers who died in nursing homes have been fighting for six years to hold former Gov. Andrew Cuomo accountable for his administration's directive to accept COVID-positive patients without testing, which resulted in thousands of deaths, and for falsifying the death toll, and are still demanding answers from the Department of Justice.

They calculated that New York nursing home families would move on. They were wrong.

11 June 2026 at 18:00
Families of over 15,000 New Yorkers who died in nursing homes have been fighting for six years to hold former Gov. Andrew Cuomo accountable for his administration's directive to accept COVID-positive patients without testing, which resulted in thousands of deaths, and for falsifying the death toll, and are still demanding answers from the Department of Justice.

Congress should end this abysmal ObamaCare failure

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has failed to meet its objectives of reducing costs and improving care, and the Abolish CMMI Act has been introduced to stop wasting tax dollars on the agency.

Congress should end this abysmal ObamaCare failure

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has failed to meet its objectives of reducing costs and improving care, and the Abolish CMMI Act has been introduced to stop wasting tax dollars on the agency.

Trump administration warns hundreds of hospitals to increase price transparency or face fines

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be.

‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds

9 June 2026 at 14:00

Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bn

People in the US are poised to endure another summer of unusually ferocious heat and there will be little respite in the years ahead, with a new study finding that the coming 15 years could see a doubling in hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses.

The number of annual heat-related emergency department visits or hospitalizations across the US are set to rise from about 109,000 cases a year to as many as 237,000 cases by 2040, the new research has estimated.

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© Photograph: Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images

© Photograph: Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images

© Photograph: Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Is this the end of costly and harmful pharmaceutical advertising?

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is under increasing political pressure, with bipartisan legislation being introduced to ban or restrict the practice, and states considering bills to deny tax deductions for pharmaceutical advertising expenses.

Envisioning expanding access to eye care

Expanding optometrists' scope of practice to include YAG procedures is associated with a substantial increase in their utilization, which improves access to vital eye care, especially in rural areas.

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