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Rebecca Delay: Why Medicare for All is now possibleAcross the country, candidates are running unapologetically on Medicare for All — and winning. In just the past several months, three Democratic contenders for U.S. Senate seats clinched primary election wins after making Medicare for All a centerpiece of their campaigns. In Illinois, it was attorney and lieutenant governor Juliana

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1 shot or 2? What to know about HPV vaccination recommendationsNEW YORK — Preteens may soon have something to celebrate: Medical experts are discussing the possibility that one dose of a life-saving cancer vaccine, instead of two, may be enough to protect them. U.S. vaccination recommendations have become splintered in the past year, with federal officials and doctors’ organizations disagreeing

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Elected leaders gather to push for Allegheny County’s paid parental leave ahead of Board of Health voteAllegheny County’s proposed paid parental leave policy drew a strong show of support Thursday, as elected Democratic officials from the county, state and federal levels gathered to rally behind the measure. The event at the Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank in North Point Breeze came just days before a scheduled Monday

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FDA panel endorses first-of-a-kind cancer blood test from GrailWASHINGTON — Federal health advisers on Wednesday endorsed a blood test designed to spot signs of various cancers in apparently healthy people while warning that it’s far from clear how well the technology works. Grail Inc.’s Galleri test doesn’t diagnose cancer but instead, with a single blood draw, looks for

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Josh Shapiro rips RFK, Trump administration for not counting Pa.’s 4 measles deathsIndependent coroners in Pennsylvania and the state’s department of health have counted four deaths associated with measles as the disease makes a comeback after 25 years of eradication. But the federal government hasn’t acknowledged or counted those deaths on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Instead the CDC

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Health Josh Shapiro measles outbreak response

Panini A. Chowdhury: Is traffic safety a core responsibility of local government?As local governments across the country enter a new fiscal reality, many are being forced to ask an uncomfortable question: What are our core responsibilities? Pandemic-era federal funding gave municipalities an opportunity to expand programs and services, but those temporary dollars were never meant to last forever. Now, as communities

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Michael Ohler: Pa. taxpayers deserve accountability for soaring state prison drug costsFive years ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spent less than $25,000 a month on Suboxone (used to treat opioid addiction) for inmates. Today, taxpayers are footing a bill of more than $3 million every month — nearly $37 million a year. That’s an increase of nearly 12,000% in just

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An appeals court is considering a push to restrict most common abortion methodA panel of federal judges heard arguments Wednesday over whether prescribing rules should be tightened for a key drug used in the most common abortion method in the United States, one of several ongoing efforts to restrict abortion access four years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to decide

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Administrators at Heritage Valley in Sewickley ask court to dismiss federal lawsuitAttorneys for several hospital administrators being sued at Heritage Valley Health System in Sewickley have asked a federal court to dismiss the complaint against them in its entirety. In their motion and 52-page supporting brief filed Tuesday, the hospital and six individual defendants claim that the whistleblower complaint filed against

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Report: John Fetterman called Wall Street Journal story ‘a hit piece’ and apologized for text message dismissing CHOP leadersA curt text message privately rejecting concerns from leaders at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia about Medicaid cuts was a “dumb joke,” U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Braddock, told CNN this weekend. In his statement to CNN, Fetterman called a Sept. 3 report from The Wall Street Journal — which reignited

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Arkansas will move forward with a ban on using SNAP for candy and soda despite recent court rulingArkansas is moving forward with its plan to ban government food aid from being used to buy candy and soda beginning on Wednesday, even though a federal judge ruled last week that similar restrictions in other states violated federal law. Announcing the plan on Monday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited

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Food Sarah Huckabee Sanders snap restrictions implementation