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Mental health must be part of cancer care

✇TheHill - Just In
By: Patrick J. Kennedy and Sheri Biller · opinion contributors
6 June 2026 at 19:00
Mental health parity laws have been passed to ensure equal coverage of mental and physical health conditions, but access to quality, affordable care remains a challenge for millions of Americans.

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  • RFK Jr under fire for ‘bullying’ letter to scientific journal Michelle R Smith
    Health advocates criticized Kennedy’s move demanding answers from journal that removed ‘flawed’ vaccine studyRobert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared to be trying to intimidate and influence the journal’s editorial process. The journ
     
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RFK Jr under fire for ‘bullying’ letter to scientific journal

✇The Guardian World news
By: Michelle R Smith
15 June 2026 at 23:20

Health advocates criticized Kennedy’s move demanding answers from journal that removed ‘flawed’ vaccine study

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.

Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared to be trying to intimidate and influence the journal’s editorial process. The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.

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Trump administration warns hundreds of hospitals to increase price transparency or face fines

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By: Josh Boak · Associated Press
10 June 2026 at 23:27
The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be.

Health Insurer Centene Offers Companywide Worker Buyouts To Cut Costs

✇Forbes - Business
By: Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor · Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor
15 June 2026 at 21:30
Obamacare insurer Centene is offering employees buyouts companywide to cut costs after losing more than two million health plan members this year.

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They calculated that New York nursing home families would move on. They were wrong.

✇TheHill - Just In
By: Vivian Zayas · opinion contributor
11 June 2026 at 17:00
Families of over 15,000 New Yorkers who died in nursing homes have been fighting for six years to hold former Gov. Andrew Cuomo accountable for his administration's directive to accept COVID-positive patients without testing, which resulted in thousands of deaths, and for falsifying the death toll, and are still demanding answers from the Department of Justice.

Kelly Rowland Opens Up About Eczema Struggles

✇Forbes - Business
By: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor · Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor
14 June 2026 at 17:12
Grammy-winning singer songwriter, actress and Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland talked about her and her son's eczema diagnoses and their experience with the condition.

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The wrong prescription for drug affordability

✇TheHill - Just In
By: Merrill Matthews · opinion contributor
16 June 2026 at 13:30
The Medication Affordability and Patent Integrity Act would create new regulatory burdens on biotech companies, making it harder and taking longer to develop new treatments, while doing nothing to lower prescription drug prices.

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    User @waider uploaded a great clipart of some female and male nurses, but for some odd reason (maybe by accident?) the female was mostly clipped off, so I offer this fix remix to fully share them both
     
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Nurses - Fix Remix

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By: j4p4n
16 June 2026 at 04:38
User @waider uploaded a great clipart of some female and male nurses, but for some odd reason (maybe by accident?) the female was mostly clipped off, so I offer this fix remix to fully share them both

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