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An Ohio hospital system says it’s firing 23 more employees and changing leadership after investigating excessive painkiller doses given to dozens of patients who died. The Mount Carmel Health System announcement Thursday comes five weeks after the Columbus-area doctor accused of ordering the doses, William Husel (HYOO’-suhl), pleaded not guilty to murder charges in 25 […]

On a Tuesday morning in June, several people were huddled around a table at the women’s networking and co-working space The Wing in New York. While the club is no stranger to hosting several events involving celebrities, motivational speakers and career coaches, this time, the tone was quite different. The event was titled “Navigating Through

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President Donald Trump is withdrawing a plan to ease the financial bite of costly medications for people on Medicare by letting them receive rebates that drugmakers now pay to insurers and middlemen, the White House said Thursday. The once-highly promoted plan from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar ran into opposition within the White

Refried beans, soup, risotto, cheese and cornbread — those items may seem like innocuous vegetarian foods, but a lot of restaurants integrate animal fat or meat-based broths into them. (And, in case you didn’t know, many cheeses, including Parmesan, contain rennet, which is cultivated from calf stomach.) If you’re a vegetarian, how do you know

A man who was in a vegetative state for 11 years who was at the center of a bitter dispute that divided his family and French courts, and provoked national soul-searching over how to deal with terminally ill patients, has died. Vincent Lambert, 42, died on Thursday, nine days after doctors stopped providing artificial feeding

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the visiting Danish prime minister have sat through their countries’ national anthems at a ceremony in Berlin, a day after the latest of three incidents in which Merkel’s body shook as she stood at a similar event. Merkel showed no signs of ill-health as she sat alongside new Prime Minister

A terminally ill woman who invited her whole village to celebrate what will “probably be her last” birthday has said despite her diagnosis, she has “a lot to give yet”. Hundreds joined Jayne Rae in Whittle-le-Woods, near Chorley, to celebrate and raise money for local community projects, including the hospital and hospice where she has

Image copyright Getty Images Sugary drinks – including fruit juice and fizzy pop – may increase the risk of cancer, French scientists say. The link was suggested by a study, published in the British Medical Journal, that followed more than 100,000 people for five years. The team at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité speculate that the

The pink tax ― an adorable name for an insidious practice ― is something women deal with on a daily basis. You probably know that ladies pay more than men for a host of products and services, from razors to dry cleaning. In fact, it’s estimated that women pay an extra $1,300 per year for