Health

Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden’s social agenda bill.

Cook Children’s Dr. Zelime Elibol, Director of the Children’s Tourette Syndrome Clinic, says she’s seen an increase in young teenage girls, with no history of a tic disorder, come to her clinic with uncontrollable physical and verbal tics.

The drugstore chain said it will focus more of its efforts on digital growth and turning its stores into health-care destinations.

A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in a Maryland resident who recently returned from Nigeria, state health officials announced Tuesday.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is launching the first human clinical trial for a nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease.

The co-authors of the study said they believe their findings will bring hope to the estimated 38 million people globally living with the virus.

Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient premium will jump by $21.60 a month in 2022, one of the largest increases ever.

Shares rose by about 3% in premarket trading after the announcement.

Medicare enrollees who take expensive medicines could save thousands of dollars a year under the Democrats’ sweeping social agenda bill, but those dividends won’t come overnight

“The toxicity of benzene has been known for over 120 years. It’s directly linked with causing leukemia in humans,” said the CEO of a lab that found the contamination.

It should come as no surprise that the new law is stirring a debate on social media.

The study tracked and analyzed data from more than 88,000 adults for around six years.