Centene reported a $1.1 billion fourth quarter loss as the health insurer struggles with rising healthcare costs in the government-subsidized health plans it administers.
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Centene Reports $1 Billion Loss Amid Health Insurer Cost Issues
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Doctors test brain cell implants to restore movement in Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease is a long-term neurological condition that gradually worsens over time. More than one million people in the United States are living with the disease, and about 90,000 new diagnoses are made each year. While current treatments…
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Forget fat jabs – I cut out one everyday food and then went from a size 18 to a perfect size 10 in just three months. This is how you can do the same as me
Reading about the 2.5 million people now using fat jabs in the UK, Fran McElwaine wondered, not for the first time, why more aren’t taking the same free – from both cost and drugs – approach that she did.
After all, she lost more than two…
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Fear stalls measles vaccine outreach in Minnesota Somali community
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing.
Measles vaccination rates…
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This Deadly Brain Cancer Currently Has No Cure. Scientists Just Found A Way To Kill It – IFLScience
- This Deadly Brain Cancer Currently Has No Cure. Scientists Just Found A Way To Kill It IFLScience
- UVA researchers identify promising new target for deadliest brain cancer UVA Today
- Potential treatment for glioblastoma — and more health…
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A hidden brain effect of prenatal alcohol exposure
A new study published in JNeurosci reports how experiences before birth may shape the brain and behavior later in life. Led by Mary Schneider and Alexander Converse at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the interdisciplinary research examined…
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Victorian disease outbreak rocks major city sparking World Cup warning | World | News
Schoolchildren have been asked to wear face masks after an outbreak of measles in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Health authorities announced that masks would be required in schools in seven neighbourhoods of Guadalajara for the next 30 days. The…
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What You Feed Your Sourdough Starter Affects Flavor, Study Finds
- A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum reveals that what you feed your sourdough starter could affect a loaf’s flavor.
- After feeding three different types of wheat flour to distinct sourdough starters, researchers found that the type of…
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The new treatments offering hope to migraine patients
“I like to think of the whole thing as a bookshelf,” says Goadsby. “On the bookshelf, there are classic medicines, there are modern medicines, there’s neuromodulation. We need to unpack which shelf you want to be on before we even decide which…
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Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule comes with a heavy price
During my time practicing medicine in Denmark, there was a day in the pediatric ward I will never forget. We had nearly 20 infants admitted simultaneously, all of them dangerously ill and severely dehydrated. The culprit was rotavirus.
As I…
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