Biden praises Kaiser Permanente labor agreement after worker strike: ‘Collective bargaining works’

Biden praises Kaiser Permanente labor agreement after worker strike: ‘Collective bargaining works’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Healthcare workers strike in front of Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers go on strike from October 4 to 7 across the United States, in Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2023. Aude Guerrucci | Reuters More than 85,000 … Read more

Kaiser Permanente health workers threaten more strikes if demands not met

Kaiser Permanente health workers threaten more strikes if demands not met

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march in front of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on October 06, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Kaiser Permanente workers on Friday threatened further strikes if executives don’t meet their demands over health-care … Read more

Kaiser Permanente workers strike for second day after negotiations fail to reach labor contract

Kaiser Permanente workers strike for second day after negotiations fail to reach labor contract

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023.  Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers remained on strike for a second day after negotiators … Read more

Lab owner who defrauded Medicare to forfeit $187 million, Ferrari

Lab owner who defrauded Medicare to forfeit 7 million, Ferrari

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Exhibit from court record: 2018 Red Ferrari Spider. Source: U.S. DOJ A Miami federal judge ordered a lab owner convicted of defrauding Medicare to forfeit more than $187 million worth of proceeds from the scam, including $30 million in cash, a 2018 Ferrari Spider and real … Read more

More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.

More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Kaiser Permanente health care center is pictured in Anaheim, California, U.S., October 3, 2023 as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers could go on strike from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 across the United States.  Mike Blake | Reuters Workers at Kaiser Permanente — … Read more

Kaiser Permanente union workers poised to strike after contract expires

Kaiser Permanente union workers poised to strike after contract expires

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign is posted on the exterior of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on September 08, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images More than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit private health-care provider in the United States are poised to strike Wednesday … Read more

Miami man pleads guilty to selling adulterated, misbranded HIV drugs across United States

Miami man pleads guilty to selling adulterated, misbranded HIV drugs across United States

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Miami man has pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing at least $16.7 million of adulterated HIV drugs dispensed to U.S. patients. Miami Herald | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A Miami man pleaded guilty to distributing as much as $25 million worth of … Read more

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers threaten strike if labor agreement not reached

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers threaten strike if labor agreement not reached

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thousands of healthcare workers march down Vermont to call for the urgent need for improved working conditions, better support systems and increased investment in the healthcare workforce at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. Dania … Read more

FTC sues Texas anesthesiology provider to bust monopoly

FTC sues Texas anesthesiology provider to bust monopoly

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 13, 2023. Kevin Wurm | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued the largest anesthesiology provider in Texas, … Read more

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in $200 million Medicare fraud scheme

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in 0 million Medicare fraud scheme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Michael Nesterov | Istock | Getty Images A federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida nurse practitioner of health-care conspiracy and other charges for playing a key role in a scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, fraudulently billed Medicare … Read more

Florida nurse convicted in $200 million Medicare fraud scheme

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in 0 million Medicare fraud scheme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Michael Nesterov | Istock | Getty Images A federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida nurse practitioner of heath-care conspiracy and other charges for playing a key role in a scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, fraudulently billed Medicare … Read more

More than 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike

More than 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and supporters march outside a Kaiser facility in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Rich Pedroncelli | AP More than 60,000 health care workers on Thursday voted to authorize a strike against Kaiser Permanente if an agreement is not reached when … Read more

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin after court rules against 1849 ban

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin after court rules against 1849 ban

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo is the Madison South Health Center that is owned and operated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Kevin Wang | AP Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin next week, after a state court ruled that a 174-year-old criminal law does not ban the … Read more

Danco Laboratories asks Supreme Court to decide abortion pill case

Danco Laboratories asks Supreme Court to decide abortion pill case

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on abortion rights in a speech hosted by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Howard Theatre in Washington, October 18, 2022. Leah Millis | Reuters The drug company Danco Laboratories has asked the Supreme Court to review the case … Read more

Covid hospitalizations spike with new variant as school returns, U.S. readies vaccines

Covid hospitalizations spike with new variant as school returns, U.S. readies vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S., January 4, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Covid hospitalizations are increasing substantially across much of the U.S. for the … Read more

Judge withdraws from Medicare drug price case after stock ownership is revealed

Judge withdraws from Medicare drug price case after stock ownership is revealed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, right, shakes hands with Judge Thomas Rose of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio after taking his oath of office, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. John Minchillo | AP A federal judge on Friday withdrew from a case … Read more

Hurricane Idalia slams Florida coast with ‘life-threatening’ storm surge, damaging winds

Hurricane Idalia slams Florida coast with ‘life-threatening’ storm surge, damaging winds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Reporters wade through flood waters as it inundates the downtown area after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Hurricane Idalia is moving inland after slamming into Florida’s Big Bend coast Wednesday morning as an ‘extremely … Read more

Covid fraud: Street gang in Milwaukee allegedly stole millions to pay for murder, guns and drugs

Covid fraud: Street gang in Milwaukee allegedly stole millions to pay for murder, guns and drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A street gang in Milwaukee, Wisc., allegedly stole millions of dollars in pandemic relief money that was then used to carry out a murder and purchase guns and drugs, among other items, according to a federal indictment. The 43-count indictment charges 30 members of the “Wild … Read more

Hawaii governor warns developers against predatory land buying in devastated Lahaina

Hawaii governor warns developers against predatory land buying in devastated Lahaina

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A general view shows damage in the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023.  Mike Blake | Reuters Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is warning developers from the mainland United States and around the world not to buy … Read more

Appeals court imposes restrictions on abortion pill, but drug will stay on the market for now

Appeals court imposes restrictions on abortion pill, but drug will stay on the market for now

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal appeals court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, though the … Read more

Hawaii wildfires: Biden vows immediate aid, deploys military to assist victims

Hawaii wildfires: Biden vows immediate aid, deploys military to assist victims

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An aerial view of a wildfire in Kihei, Maui County, Hawaii, U.S., August 8, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Clint Hansen Of Maui Real Estate | Via Reuters President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed immediate assistance for Maui residents who … Read more

These 10 medications are likely targets for Medicare price negotiations this fall

These 10 medications are likely targets for Medicare price negotiations this fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Merck & Co. Inc. Januvia brand medication, used to treat type2 diabetes, sit on a pharmacy shelf in Princeton, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medicare is poised to directly negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry this fall for the first time in … Read more

Abortion rights keep winning on the ballot in conservative states — Florida and Arizona could be next

Abortion rights keep winning on the ballot in conservative states — Florida and Arizona could be next

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Organizers celebrate the defeat of Issue 1 during an election night party at the Columbus Fire Fighters Local 67 on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voters have rejected a proposal that would’ve made it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution, … Read more

Ohio voters flock to the polls with abortion rights at stake in GOP-backed rules change

Ohio voters flock to the polls with abortion rights at stake in GOP-backed rules change

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign asking Ohioans to vote in support of Issue 1 sits above another sign advocating against abortion rights at an event hosted by Created Equal on Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Patrick Orsagos | AP The people of Ohio on Tuesday are voting … Read more

Red Cross ends blood donation restrictions that singled out gay and bisexual men

Red Cross ends blood donation restrictions that singled out gay and bisexual men

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A worker with Vitalant places a needle on the arm of a blood donor as he prepares to donate blood during the Hoboken community Vitalant blood drive held at Hoboken Rec Center on June 25, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images … Read more

Infant RSV shot faces final hurdle at CDC, could be available by fall

Infant RSV shot faces final hurdle at CDC, could be available by fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A RSV-infected child receives treatment, as RS-Virus infections spread among children at Missio children’s clinic Moenchberg, in Wuerzburg, Germany, December 2, 2022.  Heiko Becker | Reuters Americans may soon have access to a shot that protects babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, the leading cause … Read more

FDA warns some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, could result in unexpected pregnancy

FDA warns some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, could result in unexpected pregnancy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Signage is seen outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, Aug. 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, several days after the manufacturer recalled … Read more

CVS beats on earnings and revenue as the company slashes costs

CVS beats on earnings and revenue as the company slashes costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A customer exits a CVS Health Corp. store in Oakland, California, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings and revenue that beat expectations, as the company slashes costs and lays off thousands of … Read more

Walgreens is now offering RSV vaccines for older adults

Walgreens is now offering RSV vaccines for older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Respiratory syncytial virus viral vaccine under research. Hailshadow | Istock | Getty Images Walgreens is now offering the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults nationwide, the pharmacy chain said on Tuesday. People ages 60 and older can schedule an appointment this week through Walgreens’ app, … Read more

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Juanmonino | E+ | Getty Images Seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will face major hurdles to get treated even if promising new drugs roll out more broadly in the coming years, putting them at risk of developing more severe disease as they wait months or perhaps … Read more

Long Covid is distorting the labor market — and that’s bad for the U.S. economy

Long Covid is distorting the labor market — and that’s bad for the U.S. economy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Charlotte Hultquist Charlotte Hultquist Weeks after Charlotte Hultquist got Covid-19 in November 2020, she developed a severe pain in her right ear. “It felt like someone was sticking a knife in [it],” said Hultquist, a single mother of five who lives in Hartford, Vermont. The 41-year-old … Read more

Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January

Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2021. Shawn Thew | Pool | Reuters The Biden administration … Read more

How polio remerged in New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed

How polio remerged in New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images When a young adult in a New York City suburb visited an emergency department in June … Read more

U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths

U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing for another wave of Covid cases. Over the … Read more

Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight

Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on reproductive rights as Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra listens during an event at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images President Joe Biden is … Read more

U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year $1.2 billion study of long Covid

U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year .2 billion study of long Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Institutes of Health is rolling out one of the largest studies in the world to understand … Read more

Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to get abortion pills online from overseas

Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to get abortion pills online from overseas

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pills of Misoprostol, used to terminate early pregnancies, are displayed in a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. May 12, 2022.  George Frey | Reuters Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to end unwanted pregnancies with prescription abortion pills ordered online from overseas, … Read more

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cathy Dozal gets her second booster shot against COVID-19 from Vocational nursing student, Patricia Lizardo, at Long Beach City College in Long Beach on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Brittany Murray | Medianews Group | Getty Images Leading U.S. scientists and physicians worry that the FDA and … Read more

No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope of returning to normal

No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope of returning to normal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health officials have sought to reassure a pandemic weary public that the country … Read more

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents about long-term impact

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents about long-term impact

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A respiratory therapist checks on Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is on a ventilator, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., October 5, 2021. Callaghan O’Hare | Reuters Trisha DeGroot’s 10-year-old daughter, Rainey, returned … Read more

‘We’re heartbroken. We’re overwhelmed’ — U.S. hospitals grapple with delta outbreak as omicron takes root

‘We’re heartbroken. We’re overwhelmed’ — U.S. hospitals grapple with delta outbreak as omicron takes root

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Dr. Ulrika Wigert, a family practice physician, checks on Brittany Kolkhorst, a patient who has just been admitted into the hospital with Covid-19, at CentraCare Sauk Centre Hospital in Sauk Centre, Minn., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Jenn Ackerman | The Washington Post | Getty Images … Read more

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