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The shift follows the COVID-19 pandemic, when Congress poured $178 billion into helping hospitals offset financial losses and care for more patients.

In 2022, the American Heart Association updated the guidelines to its Life's Simple 7 metrics for heart health, adding sleep as an eighth measure.

Mediterranean and vegetarian diets ranked highly

Deal with Australian Hotels Association raises prospect of more sport betting promotions in pubs amid rising criticism of gambling operations

WASHINGTON — Hospitals and physicians are squaring off over a proposed Biden administration rule that would ban noncompete agreements — contractual clauses common in the health care industry that prevent workers from working for a competitor for a certain amount of time after leaving a company.

Hospitals say a ban on noncompete clauses would make it hard to retain workers, but doctors say the clauses can limit their career growth.

Americans doctors are now urged to assess sleep quality as a measure of heart health. Should Aussies follow suit?

Long COVID isn’t the only opportunity for the virus to wreak havoc later on.

The statistics are in for history as a profession, and they are dire. The number of tenure-track positions open for history professors fell to an all-time low in 2021, according to an American Historical Association report. The AHA blamed the COVID-19 pandemic. But while that explains the dip after 2020…