Tony Bennett, legendary singer who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, dies at 96 usatoday.com/story/entertai… via @usatoday

'Each of these medical industries hunkers down and ... looks out for its own interests. They rarely talk seriously about what they could do to relieve the financial burdens they create that drive tens of millions of Americans into debt.' kffhealthnews.org/MTY5ODE1OQ Noam Levey

Henrietta Lacks was 31 when she was being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 for cervical cancer when Dr. George Gey collected a sample of tissue on a tumor in her body without her knowledge. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via Ken Alltucker

Amazon Pharmacy will soon carry insulin for $35 per month. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via Ken Alltucker

Before the pandemic, gender-affirming surgeries were on the rise. Very few of them involved minors. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via Ken Alltucker

Medicare's priciest drugs may get cheaper as feds start negotiations. Big Pharma objects. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday Ken Alltucker

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers strike over pay, staffing usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

Dreading your colonoscopy? New tests give consumers more options and require less prep usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

This morning USA TODAY published my story about how the death of CVS pharmacist Ashleigh Anderson became a cautionary tale of crushing workplace stress. Hours later, CVS sent this internal memo to its staff. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

'We're in a different situation': CDC drops COVID-19 guidance for five-day isolation usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday Eduardo Cuevas

"The thing that I heard across the board from our members is it's time to really try to align COVID with other respiratory illnesses." ASTHO CMO Marcus Plescia More from Eduardo Cuevas, Adrianna Rodriguez, & Ken Alltucker of USA TODAY: usatoday.com/story/news/hea… #COVID

Biden's Cancer Moonshot is expanding: New patient navigators, insurance coverage usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

Weight loss drugs like Wegovy have taken the country by storm. But who can afford them? usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

Fatal drug overdoses are down across the United States. But not in these states. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

The CDC released new data showing a decrease in drug-related deaths over the 12-month period through December 2023 and the first decrease in 5 years since 2018. Check out this USA TODAY piece by Ken Alltucker as he quotes our Chief Policy Officer, Kevin Roy usatoday.com/story/news/hea…

Too many American can't afford dental care. Can this new federal rule provide a fix? usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

CDC: Second human infected with bird flu from U.S. dairy cows usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday

A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making similar allegations. reut.rs/4bsUjmF reut.rs/4bsUjmF

Ozempic, Wegovy linked to rare condition that can cause blindness, study says usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday

Psychedelic drug MDMA rejected as treatment for PTSD despite veterans' support usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday