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Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force Freezes 70 LA Providers As Federal Crackdown Hits California Hospice System
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (414+ words) 70 hospice and home health providers in Los Angeles were cut off from federal funding in one week after being flagged for fraud by Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force, with officials indicating that additional providers are likely to be…...
Wine, beer or liquor: Study finds one drink is linked to lower risk of death than others
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (521+ words) Differences in risk by alcohol type emerged at low and moderate levels of consumption, where drinking spirits, beer or cider was associated with a significantly higher risk of death while the same level of wine consumption was associated with a…...
Means' surgeon general nomination stalled as senators question her experience and vaccine stance
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (840+ words) Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means' nomination to be U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators of both major political parties grilled her on vaccines and other health topics during a tense confirmation hearing, deepening doubts about her ability to…...
$3 Billion Pakistani Muslim Medical Fraud in 2 Years
6+ hour, 10+ min ago (1375+ words) On March 24, 2026, Jahangeer Ali, a Pakistani citizen living in California and operating the "Oregon Clinic Laboratory" in that state, was accused of submitting over $46 million in fake Medicare claims for tests that no doctor had ordered and no patient ever…...
CVS accused of overbilling feds $600M in scheme similar to one in Ohio
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (177+ words) The federal government on Friday accused a drug middleman owned by CVS Health of overbilling a program that covers 9 million federal employees by $615 million over a four-year period. The audit's findings were similar to those found by one commissioned by…...
Tampons In Men’s Rooms Ignite Annapolis Bathroom Showdown
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (588+ words) A Maryland House bill that would require tampons and other menstrual-hygiene products in both men's and women's bathrooms in public buildings has set off a fresh round of argument in Annapolis. Backers are pitching it as an issue of access…...
The IDF soldier PTSD crisis is beyond anything we can imagine
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (296+ words) Ari Kalker joins the show under heartbreaking circumstances to tell the story of Josh Boone, a lone soldier from Boise, Idaho, who became a decorated IDF sniper and a relentless "guardian of Israel," logging an almost unbelievable 748 days of reserve…...
‘White plague’ is on the rise in the US — it’s deadlier than COVID and becoming antibiotic-resistant (tuberculosis)
9+ hour, 35+ min ago (425+ words) One of humanity's oldest and deadliest killers is staging a modern-day comeback. The so-called "white plague" reclaimed its title as the world's deadliest infectious disease in 2023 after being briefly overtaken by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic....
Biden officials pushed COVID booster harder after surveillance found stroke increase: Sen. Johnson
1+ day, 28+ min ago (312+ words) The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chair released nearly 2,000 pages of "relevant HHS records" in conjunction with the letter, in 10 batches, documenting the stroke signal and internal communications between officials "acknowledging significant statistical limitations in their ability to detect safety signals…...
Friends of IDF expands mental-health treatment network, housing for lone soldiers
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (262+ words) We started seeing these reservists getting out of Gaza or from Lebanon, and nobody took care of them," said Nadav Padan, CEO and national director of FIDF. Padan told JNS that he witnessed the psychological toll of combat in the…...