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Stanford Experts Sound Alarm on “Remarkably Harmful Toxin” from industries that, like tobacco companies, have a financial incentive in continuing to generate a product that kills millions of people every year. 

By Stanford University December 10, 2024

Judge holds Scranton landlord in contempt for abatement in apartment where tenant claims 2-year-old daughter got lead poisoning

SCRANTON – In a lawsuit by a mother claiming her 2-year-old daughter was poisoned from lead paint in their apartment at 961 Wheeler Ave., a judge on Tuesday sanctioned the landlord for contempt for failing to remove the toxic element.

UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooting opens a door for many to vent frustrations over insurance

By Tom Murphy and Devi Shastri

Dec. 7, 2024 Updated 1:32 PM PT

For years, patients in the U.S. healthcare system have been frustrated with a bureaucracy they don’t understand.

Doctors are included in an insurer’s network one year but not the next. Getting someone on the phone to help can be next to impossible. Coverage of care and prescriptions is often unceremoniously denied.