Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record temperatures persist across U.S.
With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says. The announcement comes as nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population faces heat advisories, according to the National Weather Service, and […]
New law allows Minnesota students to opt out of shooter drills
Starting this school year, Minnesota teachers and families can expect to see changes in the way schools prepare for the possibility that an armed intruder enters their building. Active shooter simulations — where school staff, police officers and others act out an attack at a school by a person with a gun using effects such […]
New law allows Minnesota students to opt out of shooter drills
Starting this school year, Minnesota teachers and families can expect to see changes in the way schools prepare for the possibility that an armed intruder enters their building. Active shooter simulations — where school staff, police officers and others act out an attack at a school by a person with a gun using effects such […]
Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record temperatures persist across U.S.
With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says. The announcement comes as nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population faces heat advisories, according to the National Weather Service, and […]
Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record temperatures persist across U.S.
With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says. The announcement comes as nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population faces heat advisories, according to the National Weather Service, and […]
Fairview, Sanford call off health systems merger
Updated 5:44 p.m. Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services said Thursday they are dropping plans to merge, ending a proposal that would have created a health care system giant in the Upper Midwest. A spokesperson with Sanford Health said Sanford’s board of trustees made the decision to stop the process at a noon meeting Thursday […]
Fairview, Sanford call off health systems merger
Updated 5:44 p.m. Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services said Thursday they are dropping plans to merge, ending a proposal that would have created a health care system giant in the Upper Midwest. A spokesperson with Sanford Health said Sanford’s board of trustees made the decision to stop the process at a noon meeting Thursday […]
His doctors billed Medicare late. Then he got sent to collections for the $3,000 tab
Thomas Greene with his wife, Bluizer, at their home in Oxford, Pennsylvania. After Thomas had a procedure on his leg, the anesthesia providers billed Medicare late, and he was sent to collections for the debt. Rosem Morton/KFF Health News Thomas Greene had been experiencing pain in his right leg, a complication from diabetes, when doctors […]
His doctors billed Medicare late. Then he got sent to collections for the $3,000 tab
Thomas Greene with his wife, Bluizer, at their home in Oxford, Pennsylvania. After Thomas had a procedure on his leg, the anesthesia providers billed Medicare late, and he was sent to collections for the debt. Rosem Morton/KFF Health News Thomas Greene had been experiencing pain in his right leg, a complication from diabetes, when doctors […]
Hep C has a secret strategy to evade the immune system. And now we know what it is
An image of the hepatitis C virus, made from a transmission electron microscopy. The virus is adept at evading the immune system. BSIP | Universal Images Group via Getty Images How do viruses do their job of infecting humans? Some of them are experts at evading the immune system so that it won’t knock them […]