2023

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A settlement between the state of New Mexico and Ridgeway Arizona Oil Corp. will plug 299 of the company’s moribund, nonproducing oil wells, with the state paying the costs and the company reimbursing…

Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022. “This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered his urologist saying.…

California’s safety-net health program, Medi-Cal, is on the cusp of major changes that could rectify long-standing problems and improve health care for the state’s low-income population. Starting Jan. 1, Medi-Cal, California’s…

A Tennessee dentist who has been sued by multiple TMJ and sleep apnea patients over an unproven dental device he invented has said under oath that he never taught dentists to use the device for those ailments — contradicting video…

Un brote a causa de una intoxicación alimentaria que mató a dos personas y enfermó a 51, derivado de un restaurante de Montana, resalta lo poco que se sabe sobre las setas colmenillas y los riesgos al preparar este popular y…

Milagro, inmigrante peruana del condado de Riverside, ha tenido un acceso intermitente a la atención médica en las dos décadas que ha estado en este país. La mujer de 48 años, que trabaja como gerente administrativa en una…

The Mexican gray wolf named Asha roamed for months around New Mexico and parts of Arizona. She’s now in captivity with two male wolves at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in La Joya, New Mexico…

(Oona Tempest/KFF Health News)Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. The pump, manufactured by device maker…

This year, about $1.5 billion has landed in state and local government coffers from court settlements made with more than a dozen companies that manufactured, sold, or distributed prescription painkillers and were sued for their…