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85% of Amazon Prime members would buy prescription drugs on the site, survey finds

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Eighty-five percent of insured Amazon Prime members would be comfortable purchasing prescription drugs

(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker’s Hospital Review) Apple Watch Series 4 includes an electrocardiogram sensor to alert users if

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Seven U.S. states now have adult obesity rates of 35 percent or higher, up from

(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio in partnership that includes, NPR and Kaiser Health News) The largest insurer in Tennessee

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Nostrum Laboratories, a Missouri-based drugmaker, raised the price of a generic antibiotic 400

(By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia and Doug Pardue for Kaiser Health News) Perhaps no other population is as vulnerable

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) The American Hospital Association and six other health organizations have sued HHS for delaying the

(By Lev Facher for STAT) WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote this week on a bill to prevent illicit fentanyl trafficking, account

(By Mara Gordon for NPR) Members of the generation that came of age in the era of marijuana are reaching