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Medicaid and ACA programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them access care. Now some are trying an alternative approach: meeting them as they wait for laundry.

The CDC report on the 2023 deaths was drawn from death certificates. The CDC counts women who died while pregnant, during childbirth and up to 42 days after birth.

After two years as secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, Weida has been picked to succeed James Uthmeier, who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to be Florida's attorney general.

About half of adults with it are not diagnosed until age 18 or older. Experts are debating whether it's being under- or overdiagnosed, and trying to establish better ways to assess and treat it in adults.

With continuous glucose monitors, students with Type 1 diabetes no longer have to visit the school nurse for a finger prick. But some parents say it falls to them to keep an eye on blood sugar levels from home or work.

Commissioners voted to bring an ordinance on removing fluoride from the water supply at a later date. The county must also consider repairing the current fluoridation system.

Tampa Hope is the first homeless facility to receive an OnMed CareStation, an 8-by-11-foot pod quipped with thermal imaging, medical devices to take vitals and a camera to speak with teleheath providers.

The topic is on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting. If commissioners vote to follow the guidance of Florida's surgeon general, Manatee would join more than a dozen other local governments to end the practice.

The measure would seem a premptive strike at a growing industry. No food engineered to include vaccines are approved for use in the U.S., but research using mRNA technology goes back several years.

The American Optometric Association says an estimated 104 million Americans of working age spend more than seven hours a day in front of screens. All that screen time can take a toll.

The deal represents an increase over a previous settlement rejected by the Supreme Court because it protected members of the wealthy Sackler family from civil lawsuits even though they were not in bankruptcy.

Elon Musk didn’t provide any details about the latest patient to get an implant from his brain-computer interface company, but there are updates on the previous ones.