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Your Legs May Be Warning You: Early Cancer Signs Most People Ignore

Leg pain, numbness, or swelling is often linked to daily strain or long hours of work. In most cases, these symptoms are harmless and temporary. However, medical experience shows that the body often gives early signals before serious illness appears. Certain persistent leg symptoms can be early warning signs of…

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AI is becoming baked into health care. Now CEOs are focusing on patient and practitioner outcomes

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Fortune

Trump health plan asks Congress for drug, insurance legislation

President Donald Trump released a health care plan that avoids extending Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies.

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Trump lays out new framework to address health costs

The framework is an acknowledgement the GOP could face blame for health care affordability in the midterms.

Axios

Kaiser affiliates will pay $556M to settle a lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud

Kaiser Permanente affiliates will pay $556 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the health care giant committed Medicare fraud and pressured doctors to list incorrect diagnoses on medical records to receive higher reimbursements

The Independent UK

When Insurance Says No, Children Pay the Price

A new California bill aims to rein in mental health coverage denials that leave kids without care.

Capital & Main

ICE Defunding Raised by Rep. Moulton on 'Shutdown-Worthy' Grounds

Representative Seth Moulton has introduced a bill to slash ICE funding and redirect it to health care subsidies. Citing the fatal Minneapolis shooting, Moulton calls the issue 'shutdown-worthy' ahead of the Jan 30 deadline.

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Penn State and UT Austin Receive Historic Philanthropic Gifts Totaling $150 Million

Penn State Health receives $50 million from Tom Golisano for children's hospital while UT Austin secures $100 million from Tench and Simone Coxe for new medical center, marking historic donations for both universities.

International Business Times

Nearly half of Detroit seniors spend at least 30% of their income on housing costs − even as real estate values fall

For Detroit homeowners over 65 who overwhelmingly live on fixed incomes, unexpected costs – increases in grocery prices, rising health care premiums or an emergency repair – heighten their risk of financial instability and can even lead to them falling into poverty.

The Conversation

Colorado ranks among the highest states in the country for flu – an emergency room physician describes why the 2025-26 flu season is hitting hard

Colorado is in the midst of a record-breaking flu season. In the week ending Dec. 27, 2025, 831 people were hospitalized with influenza – the most since the state started tracking flu cases two decades ago. Hospitalizations eased the following week to 737 but still remain higher than prior years.

The Conversation

Spending bills, prices, health care top 2026 agenda for Congress

Republicans in Congress have to weigh how aggressive they need to be to try to advance President Trump's policies as the midterms approach.

Roll Call

Will Soaring Health Care Premiums Tank Your Early Retirement?

If you're under 65 and want to retire soon, your plan may be derailed by skyrocketing ACA marketplace premiums. Here's what you can do.

Kiplinger

This ETF Is Proof That the Healthcare Rebound Is Real

Track healthcare’s 2026 setup: GLP-1 drug adoption, a valuation gap vs. tech, and why VHT offers broad exposure with low fees and dividends.

MarketBeat

Turning 59½: 5 Planning Moves Most Pre-Retirees Overlook

Age 59½ isn't just when you can access your retirement savings tax-free. It also signals the start of retirement planning opportunities you shouldn't miss.

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Doctors say changes to US vaccine recommendations are confusing parents and could harm kids

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children

Fortune

Strip out health care and social services, and the U.S. lost jobs in 2025—something that usually happens in recessions

“It’s fair to call this a hiring recession or a jobless boom,” said economist Heather Long.

Fortune

Read Bill Gates's 2026 annual letter in full

"As we start 2026, I am thinking about how the year ahead will set us up for the decades to come."

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Texas, facing doctor shortage, eases path for foreign-trained physicians

Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S.

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Texas GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz joins Democrats in vote to pass three-year ACA subsidy extension

Edinburg Rep. Monica De La Cruz was the only Texas Republican to break with her party and vote with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans on a key healthcare bill.

Axios

House passes ACA subsidies extension in dramatic vote

The vote marked a rare rebuke by some Republicans of their own leadership.

The Conversation

Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory. Health and illness are our experiments in uncovering meaning, power and inequality, and how it affects all…

The Independent UK

How many Americans donate to crowdfunding campaigns, according to a new AP-NORC poll

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 2 in 10 U.S. adults donated money to a crowdfunding campaign over the last year, with medical expenses proving most common

The Independent UK

Dose of uncertainty: Experts wary of AI health gadgets at CES

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas

The Conversation

Congress takes up health care again − and impatient voters shouldn’t hold their breath for a cure

As the bell struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2026, time ran out on Obamacare subsidies for over 24 million Americans. These subsidies, propped up through various legislative packages over the years, lowered the health insurance costs for Americans on the Obamacare exchange.

Axios

Inside the Senate's last-gasp effort to solve the health care crisis

"We're on the clock," Moreno said.

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