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California seeks to find and compensate sterilization victims

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — About 600 people alive today can’t have children because the California government sterilized them against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in repairs. But after a year of searches, the state approved just …

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US and global health officials are concerned about China’s transparency on the spread of the virus

US and global health leaders say Beijing is not sharing enough information about the spread of Covid-19 in China, leaving the international community in the dark about the scale and severity of the current wave of infection in the world’s most populous country. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement on …

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Millions at risk of losing Medicaid in spring on less than $1.7 trillion in federal spending

Millions of people who enrolled in the Medicaid public health insurance program during the Covid pandemic could lose coverage in the spring if their state determines they no longer meet the program’s eligibility requirements. Medicaid enrollments soared 30% to more than 83 million people during the pandemic after Congress essentially barred states from kicking people …

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Health officer controversy still unresolved | News Sun

LAGRANGE — The commissioners largely ignored the controversy created by their rejection of the LaGrange County Health Board’s October appointment of Dr. Tony Pechin to another four-year term as a health officer at its regular commissioners meeting on Monday. Instead, they let their liaison, Commissioner Peter Cook, announce at the end of Monday’s meeting that …

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Prisma, Greenville County Revises ER Deal After Criticism | Cheers Greenville

Prisma Health and Greenville County are working on a revised agreement to govern how the county’s largest health care provider will operate an emergency room at its North Greenville Hospital in Travelers Rest. The changes come after some County Council members criticized the details of the original deal. The City earlier voted to donate $13.5 …

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Say Hoosier health and billions of dollars in excess | Opinions

INDIANAPOLIS – If you live in Carmel or Noblesville, you will statistically live about nine years longer than someone in Scottsburg, and about six years longer than a Hoosier living in Gas City. In the television era of Hoosier politics there have been seismic dealings that have brought with them mediocre change. The Indiana School …

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The Biden administration will end the public health emergency of monkeypox

People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 in Hollywood, CA. Brian Van der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The Biden administration will end the public health emergency declared in response to the monkeypox outbreak, as new …

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City’s mental health plan lacks ‘clarity’

Public Attorney Jumaane Williams raised concerns about the city’s plan to involuntarily hospitalize more people with serious, untreated mental illness in an interview Wednesday, criticizing his “lack of clarity” and reliance on the NYPD. A directive issued Tuesday by Adams will allow city-led “intervention teams” to remove people suffering from severe mental health crises from …

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