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A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

From hospitals to neighborhood soup kitchens, Boston organizations are using “food as medicine” to fight hunger and improve ...

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Earlier this month, the closed a request for proposals to bring a medical detox facility to the community. Yakima County ...

The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of ...

You may not realize you’ve benefited from HIV research. But if you’ve received a treatment that was approved through a recent ...

The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program has set up a hospital clash as states map out plans to support rural ...

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