Health | The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws and futile treatments By Tribune News Service April 25, 2024 at 3:40 p.m. Dentists have attempted to heal TMJ patients for close to a century, and yet the...
Health | Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors By Tribune News Service April 25, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. Chronic Care Management is a federal program that, since 2015, has rewarded doctors for doing...
Health | What do weight loss drugs mean for a diet industry built on eating less and exercising more? By Anne D'Innocenzio April 25, 2024 at 3:33 p.m. Like the lives of the people taking them, recent injected drugs like Wegovy and its...
Business | FTC chief says tech advancements risk health care price fixing By Tribune News Service April 25, 2024 at 3:13 p.m. Price fixing removes competition from the market and generally makes goods and services more expensive.
Health | He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he’s trying to change the industry. By Kate Wells, Michigan Public April 25, 2024 at 9:15 a.m. For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours...
Health | Virginia Beach mom started nonprofit to help families dealing with childhood cancer By Sandra J. Pennecke April 25, 2024 at 8:23 a.m. Crissy Johnson started MomAdvocate Foundation in 2020 to provide support that could have helped her...
Health | Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer. By Arielle Zionts April 24, 2024 at 2:35 p.m. “It’s almost blasphemy for a physician to say,” but “the answer to addressing these things...
Health | Biden administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them. By Jordan Rau April 24, 2024 at 2:40 p.m. The rules primarily address staffing levels for three types of nursing home workers. Registered nurses,...
Health | Doctors combine pig kidney transplant and heart device in bid to extend woman’s life By Lauran Neergaard April 24, 2024 at 9:22 a.m. A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part...
Education | USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time By Jonel Aleccia April 24, 2024 at 8:40 a.m. The nation’s school meals will get a makeover under new nutrition standards that limit added...