WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new Commonwealth Fund report offers the first state-by-state ranking of how vulnerable individual health and health care systems are to climate risks.  The report analyzed all 50 states and Washington, D.C., looking at factors like extreme heat, flooding and air quality, asContinue Reading

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More people appear to die in emergency rooms (ER) after hospitals have been bought by private equity firms, a new study says. About 13% more deaths occur among Medicare patients in the emergency rooms of hospitals after their acquisition by private equity, researchersContinue Reading

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Top vaccine advisers hand-selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to limit the use of a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. By an 8 to 3 vote, with one person abstaining, the Advisory Committee onContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal officials are raising concerns about whether a Virginia Boar’s Head deli meat plant, linked to last year’s deadly listeria outbreak, is ready to safely reopen. In a letter sent Monday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and nine other Democrats asked Boar’s HeadContinue Reading