Tag: health

The Southwest and West face a second week of extreme temperatures that have already claimed more than a dozen lives. Approximately one in three Americans received excessive heat warnings, watches or advisories last weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Excessive drinking and alcohol-related deaths are increasing at an alarming rate among women, particularly among reproductive-aged women in their late 20s and 30s. Traditionally, women tend to reduce their alcohol consumption once they have children; and in recent years, more middle-aged women have delayed or skipped motherhood. 

Modernity is both cause and cure of global pandemics, write four physician-scientist experts in pandemic prevention in the latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.

In the HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 proposed rule released today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed standards for issuers and Marketplaces, as well as requirements for agents, brokers, web-brokers, and assisters that help consumers with enrollment through Marketplaces that use the Federal platform.

More than 1 million Veterans have downloaded the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new VA: Health and Benefits mobile app for fast, secure, on-demand access to the health care and benefits they’ve earned.