Elevated Cancer Rates Found Near Highly Toxic Texas Sites
Texans living around the San Jacinto River Waste pits, a toxic Superfund site, suffer from abnormally high rates of certain types of cancer, a study has found. The Texas Department of State Health ...
Colorado paid more than $7 million to insurance companies for care to dead Medicaid members, audit finds
The audit estimated that Colorado paid insurers at least $7.3 million, including both state money and about $3.8 million in ...
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Missourians with developmental disabilities are dying and 'treated less than human' in state system
From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — ...
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As more mental health crisis centers open across the state, here’s what you need to know
North Carolina's (mostly free) mental health crisis services are expanding. Here’s what they do and how to find them.
Federal agency tells staff responses to Musk's DOGE productivity email may be read by 'malign foreign actors'
HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it ...
Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren't 'well suited' for the jobs
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are "well-suited" to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given ...
Musk Says Federal Workers Who Didn’t Respond to Email About Job Will Be Given ‘Another Chance’ Before Being Fired
The request for employees to outline their job accomplishments has been met with pushback from departments and agencies.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey announces plan to pause closure of two state hospitals
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday that her administration would pause the closure of two state hospitals.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green: States Must Prepare Now for Potentially ‘Devastating’ Infectious Diseases, Health Funding Cuts
If infectious disease outbreaks such as measles or bird flu explode into larger-scale emergencies, Hawaii could begin screening visitors to the state, as it did during the COVID pandemic, Hawaii Gov.
‘We don’t want people to panic unnecessarily’: Massachusetts’ top health official braces for changes under Trump
In an interview with the Globe, Kate Walsh, the state secretary of health and human services, discussed how President Trump’s ...
Trump’s firings strike the nation’s health agencies
Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...
‘Suppressing essential health information’: Some officials frustrated by Trump administration’s limits on health agencies
Canceled meetings and limited updates on life-threatening diseases. These are some of the real-world implications caused by ...