Month: March 2025
Members of the U.S. House are rushing to update the federal law that governs preventive benefits coverage for people with health savings accounts. House leaders have put a bipartisan HSA preventive benefits bill, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act bill, on a list of items that could come to the House floor this week “under ...
As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an opinion piece on Fox News on Sunday that parents should consult with health-care providers “to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine” for their children. Kennedy did not explicitly recommend the ...
Shortly before returning to the courtroom, Sutter Health has reached an “agreement in principle” to settle a long-running and recently revived antitrust class-action lawsuit, according to a Sunday evening legal filing and statement from the legal counsel for the plaintiffs shared Monday morning. The case, Sidibe et al v. Sutter Health, was filed in the ...
New evidence is highlighting just how important sleep is for overall health. Emerging research published in The Journal of Immunology found a link between sleep deprivation and the immune system, and the potential to develop obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease through inflammation. Researchers at the Dasman Diabetes Institute in Dasman, Kuwait, aimed to investigate how sleep quality impacts systemic ...