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Citing a recent Mercer report, Reuters noted that employer healthcare costs are expected to jump 5.4% to 8.5% in 2024 due to medical inflation, soaring demand for costly weight-loss drugs and ...
UnitedHealth posted a better-than-expected profit in the final quarter of 2024, but a nagging rise in medical costs and care utilization surprised Wall Street. Shares of the health care giant slid ...
2024 was packed with health care innovations, from a new blood test detecting Alzheimer’s disease to deep brain stimulation reversing paralysis. Heading into the New Year, medical experts are ...
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported that 323 "active medication shortages" were reported in January–March 2024. As a result of drug scarcity, many healthcare systems were forced to either ration out essential drugs, triage patients based on the severity of their condition and their need for the drug, or both.
The U.S. Justice Department charges 193 people, including 76 medical professionals, with participating in healthcare fraud schemes totalling $2.75 billion, which include unlawful distribution of Adderall and fraudulent drug addiction treatment. Politics and elections. 2024 United States presidential debates
Steward Health Care, a for-profit hospital chain in the United States, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Disasters and accidents. 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 85.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic. Six people are injured, including two children, in an Israeli strike on a polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza as the World Health Organization vaccination campaign resumes with its second phase.
From Boeing's turbulence and a catastrophic hurricane, to Donald Trump's election victory, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a year that was monumental.