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For UnitedHealth’s Optum, It’s ‘Back To Basics’ With Smaller Footprint
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business is undergoing a significant turnaround, which includes exiting certain markets and terminating contracts with medical care providers that do not align with the company's…
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AI Doesn’t Fix Systems — It Exposes Them
A nuclear power plant and transmission lines at sunset. The grid, not the reactor, is the real story.gettyThe real innovation…
Lead exposure plays little-noticed role in cardiovascular deaths
Although lead has been removed from gasoline and paint, it still remains in our bodies, particularly in our hearts. Many…
For next CDC director, confirmation is just the first of many problems
Public health experts have long anticipated that appointing a new leader for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Adults turn to AI chatbots for health information
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Acting CDC Director Bhattacharya addresses staff at all-hands meeting
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon…
Researcher links Agent Orange exposure to MDS blood cancer
Years after the Vietnam War, hematologist-oncologist Mikkael Sekeres began treating veterans diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a type of blood…
The impact of NIH restrictions on foreign institutions
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FDA briefs lawmakers on food safety priorities
WASHINGTON — Senators were briefed by Food and Drug Administration officials on the agency's 2026 food policy plans, as reported…