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If you’re a MyChart user starting July 17th URMC will be charging for certain services on the app when it comes to message exchange. Any question that needs to be answered by an expert and if the exchange is more than 5 minutes the user’s insurance provider could be hit with a bill. The MyChart […]

Jamie Foxx is communicating again after he was hospitalized for a “medical emergency” Tuesday morning, a representative said Wednesday. “His condition was serious enough that Jamie’s family, some of whom were not in town, came to the hospital,” the representative said. “He is communicating now.” Foxx, 55, is in Atlanta working on the movie “Back […]

A group of pediatricians and other experts declared children’s mental health challenges is a “national emergency”. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children’s Hospital Association — which collectively represent over 77,000 physicians and over 200 children’s hospitals — are sounding the alarm over a “shocking” rise […]

The family of Henrietta Lacks is suing a biotechnology company. The Lacks family is accusing Johns Hopkins Hospital of selling cells that doctors took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.” Tissue taken from the woman’s tumor before she died of cervical cancer, […]