Health

A pair of Jacksonville pharmacies and their proprietor agreed to pay a minimum of $7.4 million to settle lawsuits accusing them of defrauding Medicare by including anti-psychosis remedy to topical ache cream and wrongly waiving affected person copays. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Abortion suppliers in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Friday that challenges a number of provisions of a state regulation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of being pregnant within the dwindling days earlier than the brand new restrictions take impact. ...

Isolated and unmotivated front-line well being staff ignored pandemic disaster declarations and threw out dusty emergency plans as they improvised allocate scarce assets throughout COVID-19, a research has discovered. ...

Testosterone alternative remedy is secure for males with “low T” who've coronary heart illness or are at excessive danger for it, a brand new examine suggests. ...

President Biden is appointing Mandy Cohen, a former Obama administration official and well being commissioner for North Carolina, as the following director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa courtroom ruling anticipated Friday might outlaw most abortions within the state or maintain the process authorized as much as 20 weeks of being pregnant, not less than for now. ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — New dangerous illicit medicine are inundating a flourishing marketplace for traffickers amid violence and corruption hurting native communities throughout Europe, the EU‘s company monitoring medicine and habit stated Friday. ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital the place he had stomach surgical procedure 9 days earlier to restore a hernia and take away painful scarring, along with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now “better than before” the hospitalization. ...

Homicides amongst older youngsters and suicides amongst adults of their early 20s rose in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic to their highest ranges in a minimum of twenty years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. ...

NEW YORK — The murder charge for older U.S. youngsters rose to its highest level in practically 25 years throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the suicide charge for adults of their early 20s was the worst in additional than 50 years, authorities researchers mentioned Thursday. ...