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FILE - A Care Home Delivery Technician gets his blood pressure checked at Augusta Health in Fishersville, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state in the U.S. despite some progress over the past two decades, according to a new national report released Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Rebecca J.

Health care needs to diversify its workforce to get rid of racial inequalities, a new report says

FILE - A Care Home Delivery Technician gets his blood pressure checked at Augusta Health in Fishersville, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state in the U.S. despite some progress over the past two decades, according to a new national report released Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Rebecca J.

June 26, 2024, 8:33am Health

Racial and ethnic inequitiesin health care are found in every state in the U.S. despite the passage of legislation intended to improve health outcomes for minorities and increased awareness of health care disparities over the past two decades, according to a new national report released Wednesday. Read story

Victims are emotional during a news conference with survivors of abused and neglected youth at residential treatment facilities (RTFs) and advocates, on the need for Congress to act to protect children and reform RTFs, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

States fail to track abuses in foster care facilities housing thousands of children, US says

Victims are emotional during a news conference with survivors of abused and neglected youth at residential treatment facilities (RTFs) and advocates, on the need for Congress to act to protect children and reform RTFs, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

June 26, 2024, 8:32am Health

 Many states are failing to track how frequently children in foster care facilities are abused, sexually assaulted or improperly restrained, leaving them vulnerable to mistreatment, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in a report Wednesday. Read story

Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in Iowa. In the United States, bird flu outbreaks have been reported at dozens of dairy cow farms and in more than 1,000 poultry flocks, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

‘We’re flying blind’: CDC has 1M bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps

Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in Iowa. In the United States, bird flu outbreaks have been reported at dozens of dairy cow farms and in more than 1,000 poultry flocks, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

June 25, 2024, 12:48pm Health

It’s been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet the U.S. has tested only about 45 people across the… Read story

FILE - Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks during an Archewell Foundation panel discussion in New York City, Oct. 10, 2023. On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Murthy, the nation&#039;s top doctor, declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by a growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory came as the U.S. grappled with another weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded.

US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency

FILE - Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks during an Archewell Foundation panel discussion in New York City, Oct. 10, 2023. On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Murthy, the nation&#039;s top doctor, declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by a growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory came as the U.S. grappled with another weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded.

June 25, 2024, 7:41am Health

The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. Read story

Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows

June 24, 2024, 3:16pm Health

In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows. Read story

FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, the entrance to Western State Hospital is seen in Lakewood, Wash.

WA paid $100 million over mental health delays. Here’s where it’s going

FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, the entrance to Western State Hospital is seen in Lakewood, Wash.

June 24, 2024, 8:35am Health

Up to $100 million could soon be poured into building housing for patients recently released from Washington’s state psychiatric hospitals, with the hope that increasing housing supply will stop patients from returning to the criminal justice system. Read story

Fernando Rosales with RJH electrical contractors worked on installing an electrical box on Northside Drive near I-75 as he wiped away the sweat from the oppressive heat in metro Atlanta on Aug. 14, 2023.

How to keep workers safe in hot weather

Fernando Rosales with RJH electrical contractors worked on installing an electrical box on Northside Drive near I-75 as he wiped away the sweat from the oppressive heat in metro Atlanta on Aug. 14, 2023.

June 23, 2024, 6:00am Business

For people who work outside or in hot conditions, it can be perilous when temperatures rise during the summer months. Read story

New drug’s potentially fatal side effects obscured by ‘soothing acronym,’ doctors say

June 23, 2024, 5:55am Health

Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her keys. Read story

What is forensic genetic genealogy? Technique used in Rachel Morin case is scantly regulated

June 23, 2024, 5:53am Health

Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. Read story

Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rohit Chopra listens during a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Department of Treasury on Dec. 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

The White House wants to remove medical debt from credit scores. Here’s why that’s a big deal

Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rohit Chopra listens during a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Department of Treasury on Dec. 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

June 22, 2024, 5:37am Business

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would remove medical bills from credit reports, a ban that would prevent lenders from considering those debts when making decisions about whether to issue loans. Read story