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The nation’s largest supplier of platelets is moving to a method it says is easier for hospitals, but one that sharply raises costs, leading some centers to demand more options.

Is someone at home sick with COVID-19? One simple but effective strategy for keeping the virus from spreading is to make your indoor air as much like the outdoors as possible.

Insurers say prior authorization requirements are intended to reduce wasteful and inappropriate health care spending. But they can baffle patients waiting for approval. And doctors say that insurers have yet to follow through on commitments to improve the process.

The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive-care units also has increased.

The law could result in methamphetamine dealers facing a death sentence if drugs they distribute kills someone.

In the past several months, new treatments have emerged, which are most effective within the first five days of symptoms but patients may have a hard time knowing whether they qualify.

The clause can be found in Section 23 of the state constitution, It reads, in part: “Every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person’s private life."

Mona Bethke says she wants to tell her story to inspire others, especially survivors of assault. She's worried about how abortion restrictions could harm them.

The two men and six others were accused of deceiving pharmacy benefit managers into approving tens of thousands of prescriptions that were fraudulently obtained.

The law requires that parents of students receiving mental-health services be informed of “other behavioral health services available through the student's school or local community-based” providers.

The Mother’s Milk Bank of Florida has gone from receiving a dozen calls a week to a dozen calls a day.

Dr. Washington Hill, 83, says many doctors are too young to have experienced seeing women suffer dangerous infections and fatal complications from attempted abortions.