The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and applications, potentially exposing the data of 1.4 million patients.
"The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act will better support veterans, caregivers and survivors by improving access to VA health care and benefits, expanding long-term care programs, strengthening programs for student veterans and military family members and more," Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., the ranking member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
Those with views like Mr. Kennedy's believe it is wrong to use pharmaceuticals to manage obesity and related issues that are tied to unhealthy lifestyle and to a ruinous food environment. The makers of obesity drugs, Mr. Kennedy told Greg Gutfeld on Fox News before the election, are "counting on selling it to Americans because we're so stupid and so addicted to drugs." But there are many like Mr. Musk, who says he has used Wegovy, applauding the power of the new drugs to improve health and treat the seeming intractability of obesity. Many health and nutrition researchers say they would love for obesity to be treated through lifestyle changes alone, but they are not optimistic. They point to a history of attempts to teach people to change their diet and exercise habits. Multiple studies left them with dashed hopes and tempered their enthusiasm.
Governor Maura Healey defended her record Tuesday on Steward Health Care, saying she "did all that I could do" to address the now-bankrupt hospital chain's collapse, which a recent Globe Spotlight Team investigation found was enabled by years of lax state scrutiny. Healey placed the blame for the hospital chain's subpar care and massive financial losses on former Steward chief executive Ralph de la Torre, who resigned in October and is now a focus of a federal corruption investigation. "What happened with Steward is attributable to one man, Ralph de la Torre, and those around him who enabled and furthered greed and corruption," Healey said in an interview following an unrelated news conference Tuesday. Her comments came as federal and state lawmakers redoubled calls for greater oversight of health care companies in the wake of the Spotlight investigation. The report, which was published Saturday, revealed how years of weak scrutiny across several state administrations contributed to a health crisis that has harmed communities and cost lives. "There's plenty of blame to go around, and it dates back for years and years of lax oversight," Senator Elizabeth Warren said in a brief interview. "We need accountability throughout the system."
The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail. Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new. Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is "intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping." Mangione's New York lawyer has not commented on the case.