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Hospital Indicted for Fraud; HHS Advice for RFK Jr.; Matt Damon Joins Debt Effort

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Chesapeake Regional Healthcare in Virginia was involving unnecessary surgical procedures.

Here's the advice had for his potential successor, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (AP)

As wildfires continue to engulf Southern California, this is how are handling the influx of patients. (ABC News)

Medicare drug plans can now (Zepbound) for obstructive sleep apnea, after the FDA approved this indication last month. (CNBC)

China reported a cluster of a strain. (The Independent)

The World Organization for Animal Health wants following the first human death in the U.S. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Consuming 300 mg of calcium per day was tied with a significantly in a prospective study of over 500,000 women. (Nature Communications)

Here's how President-elect Trump's Greenland plan like some GLP-1 receptor agonists. (New York Times)

Several British universities and other higher education establishments , citing its role in spreading misinformation. (Reuters)

UnitedHealth Group shareholders the impact of healthcare denials. (Reuters via MSN)

North Dakota became the under the ACA for diabetes and obesity. (Becker's Healthcare)

A meta-analysis showed that the average at time of diagnosis ranged from 5.7 years at age 65 to 2.2 years at age 85 in men, and from 8 to 4.5 years, respectively, in women. (BMJ)

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) proposed a state law change that would make it in need of mental healthcare. (Gothamist)

Matt Damon is the latest actor to help . (ABC 7 NY)

Many in North Carolina are from Hurricane Helene's floods. (NPR)

A patient at North Kansas City Hospital was . (Fox 4 Kansas City)

Former died at age 37. A cause of death has not been revealed yet. (ESPN)