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How delays and bankruptcy let a nursing home chain avoid paying settlements for injuries and deaths
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the hospital called an elder abuse hotline and then the…
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Matriarch’s Death Prompts Mental Health Reckoning
At Saturday’s candlelight vigil on the Grand Avenue Bridge. Credit: Abiba Biao photos Editor’s Note: This article discusses self-harm, suicide, and mental-health crises. Please take care while reading. If you or someone you know needs help, call 988 (the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or text 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. When Cheryl Hill vanished around Thanksgiving and her late…
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Rural health providers could be collateral damage from $100K Trump visa fee
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Not one U.S. citizen has applied. West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about…
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2 Companies Poised to Capitalize on the Rise of GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs
Nobody could have predicted the vogue for GLP-1 drugs, which were originally designed to treat Type 2 diabetes. In recent times, these drugs have become hugely popular for weight loss purposes, boosted by social media and celebrity endorsements. In the United States alone, the number of patients starting GLP-1 treatments for non-diabetic purposes has increased by 700% since 2019, with…
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Abortion
Key facts Six out of 10 unintended pregnancies end in induced abortion. Abortion is a common health intervention. It is very safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone with the necessary skills. However, around 45% of abortions are unsafe. Unsafe abortion is an important preventable cause of maternal deaths…
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Shadhana Oushadhalaya: The 111-year legacy of Bengal’s Ayurvedic pioneer
In Gandaria, Dhaka, inside a modest room within the large factory at 71 Dinanath Sen Road, Jogesh Chandra Ghosh sat beneath a dim yellow 40-watt bulb, writing down a formula for a new medicine. Wrapped in a thin shawl, his dhoti pulled up to the knees, few would have guessed he was a millionaire. In the ’50s and ’60s, Shadhana…
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Supportive marriages may shape appetite control through oxytocin and the brain–gut axis
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Study: Social bonds and health: exploring the impact of social relations on oxytocin and brain–gut communication in shaping obesity. Image Credit: PeopleImages / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal Gut Microbes, a group of…
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Geron Corporation Presents New Data at ASH 2025 Highlighting the Relationship Between Treatment-Emergent Cytopenias and Clinical Benefit of RYTELO® (Imetelstat) in Lower-Risk MDS
Geron Corporation Oral presentation from pooled analyses of the IMerge population suggests that treatment-emergent cytopenias may reflect on-target effects associated with meaningful clinical outcomes, including hemoglobin increases and transfusion independence in lower-risk MDS Long-term follow-up analysis from IMerge supports favorable survival trends and durable clinical benefit in LR-MDS Additional analyses in myelofibrosis and advanced MDS/AML offer important context for understanding…
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Can Ozempic ‘heal’ ADHD and alcoholism? The alt-wellness community think so
After two or three alternative medicine podcasts, the idea that Ozempic can cure social anxiety starts to sound almost reasonable. Sandwiched between claims that Justin Bieber is a blue-eyed, blonde-haired extraterrestrial called a Pleiadian, and musings about people with purple auras instead of yellow ones, why shouldn’t a weight-loss drug also save us from loneliness? These kinds of claims are…
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Bausch Health Announces Early Exchange Offer Results for Exchange Offers
LAVAL, QC / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE:BHC)(TSX:BHC) (the “Company”) announced today the results to date of its previously announced offers to exchange the Company’s outstanding 4.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 (the “4.875% Notes”) and 11.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 (the “11.00% Notes” and together with the 4.875% Notes, the “Existing…
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