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Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi-Fi password, before a relentlessly cheerful voice tells you to “Ask your doctor” and then blasts through a side-effect list that’s laughably long.

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There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care

More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80.

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I'm a Financial Adviser: This Is the Real Key to Enjoying Retirement With Confidence

A resilient retirement plan is a flexible framework that addresses income, health care, taxes and investments. And that means you should review it regularly.

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Health care spending is surging just as Trump’s tax cuts cripple its funding

Health spending is eating up a growing share of the government’s shrinking budget.

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What To Expect When Working With Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer

Getting injured because of another person being careless can cause your life to take a downward turn. This disrupts daily routine, health care expenses accumulate, and emotional distress is compounded along with the physical suffering.

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Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall

Few institutions better illustrate the effects of the Great Migration on Black life in Detroit than Dunbar Memorial Hospital.

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Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up

Since nursing contract negotiations heated up in January 2026 at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh and at UPMC Altoona, the debate shifted from standard wage disputes to a more fundamental question of patient safety: the nurse-to-patient ratio.

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Health Care Stocks Have Sagged. Can You Bet on a Recovery?

The flagging health care sector has perked up a bit lately. Is it time to invest?

Kiplinger

How Is Danaher Corporation’s Stock Performance Compared to other Health Care Stocks?

Danaher Corporation faces near-term relative weakness, but the Street’s conviction suggests recovery ahead.

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Trump says Greenland needs hospital ship to ‘take care of the sick’. Here’s the truth

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the US would send a ‘great hospital boat’ to Greenland

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It's Time to Bust These 3 Long-Term Care Myths (and Face Some Uncomfortable Truths)

None of us wants to think we'll need long-term care when we get older, but the odds are roughly even that we will. Which is all the more reason to understand the realities of LTC and how to pay for it.

Kiplinger

More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers to end strike in California and Hawaii

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaii to demand better wages and staffing

The Independent UK

Security boost call as mental health patients flee care

Two escapees from mental health care were allegedly involved in incidents that killed three people, and now security arrangements are being questioned.

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Aging in Place Can Be Bad for Your Health: This Financial Pro's Alternative Is a No-Brainer

Why age alone in financial hardship when you can enjoy companionship — and share the costs of housing, groceries and health care — with a small community of friends?

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When It Comes to Retirement Planning, Be More Spock Than Scotty: It's Logical, Captain

If you're worried about your retirement, address the concerns in a logical sequence, talk honestly with your team and prepare to go boldly into the future.

The Independent UK

New Mexico launches investigation of forced sterilization of Native American women

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

The Independent UK

Cuba's health care system pushed to the brink by US fuel blockade, Cuban minister says

Cuban officials say a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing Cuba’s health system toward collapse and putting lives at risk

Reason

Judge Orders Takeover of Arizona Prison Health Care Following Years of Barbaric Medical Neglect

A federal judge ruled in 2022 that "no legitimate humane system would operate" like Arizona's prison health care system. Three years later, that same judge found the problems still hadn't been fixed.

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Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care

A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and mental health care

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‘It’s chronic disease, stupid!’ The central challenge facing health care

“The economy, stupid!” is an aphorism coined by James Carvill during Bill Clinton’s 1992 U.S. presidential campaign to keep workers focused on a key message. It has since been adapted countless times to refocus debates over challenging situations, and it can be applied to the central challenge facing health care:…

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Thursday briefing: Cutting migration won’t boost British jobs, so what can fix our skills shortage?

In today’s newsletter: New research shows that curbing work visas won’t help with British recruitment, and could accelerate the collapse of essential service sectors already struggling to survive

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When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years

The Trump administration announced on Feb. 12, 2026, that it is ending Operation Metro Surge, its deployment of more than 3,000 federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding metro area. Federal officials say some agents will remain in the area and have vowed that similar immigration…

The Independent UK

The life of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson in photos

The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad

The Independent UK

Children are not getting mental health support, a quarter of parents say

The burden was disproportionately felt in households with homeschooled children

The Independent UK

Americans are getting chronic illnesses more often and earlier in life, report finds

The cost of health care is also growing more expensive, with two-thirds of U.S. adults worrying about paying the bills

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