The Trump administration has negotiated lower prices for 15 widely used medications covered by Medicare, with the federal government saying the effort will cut spending on those drugs by 44%, or about $12 billion. So will the initiative help save money for seniors? That’s less clear, given that Medicare enrollees are already protected by a…
Federal officials on Monday issued a recall for clams and raw oysters distributed in at least nine states due to concerns that they may be contaminated with norovirus, a contagious infection commonly known as the “stomach flu.” According to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the recalled clams were harvested by the Lummi Indian…
Twenty-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, a West Virginia National Guard member who was killed in Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., shooting, was remembered Friday by devastated colleagues at Seneca Health Services, a behavioral-health agency based in West Virginia, where she worked prior to her deployment. “She had a passion for serving people,” Marcie Vaughan, CEO of Seneca…
California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington on Wednesday issued unified recommendations on COVID-19, influenza and RSV vaccines that differ from those issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Governors of the states, which make up the newly-formed West Coast Health Alliance, said in a joint press statement that their alliance was “fighting…
A Philadelphia nurse is sharing the power of art, weaving her way through life as an artist and health care provider. Taking care of people and knowing about their medical conditions supplies this nurse with all kinds of ideas for her art. Weaving, creating art – this is what Linda Ruggiero does when she’s not…
When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn’t see were the braces and crutches he needed to walk. Perlman was four when he contracted polio. “I was already running and walking, and I remember one morning when I got up…
Millions of Americans are turning to AI for emotional therapy. A report in JAMA found about 13% of young people use AI chatbots for mental health advice. Dr. Sue Varma, a board-certified psychiatrist, explains what to know about safety, privacy and ethical standard concerns. Source link
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook speaks at length with former CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky about the hepatitis B vaccine and last week’s vote by the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the vaccine. Source link
Nearly five million flu cases have been reported nationwide, the CDC estimates, and at least 1,900 people have died from the virus. “CBS Saturday Morning” has more on why this year’s strain is breaking records. Source link
In this web exclusive, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN, talks with “Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley about his new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life.” He discusses pain, which he calls “the most mysterious of all human sensations,” and about the misconceptions…
