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Busy Medicare Advantage businesses have CVS Health and other insurance providers spooked about the new year. The health care giant said Wednesday that it was scaling back already cautious expectations for 2024 as it tries to understand why costs keep rising from the privately run version of the government's Medicare program. Medicare Advantage plans cover people who are age 65 and older and others with severe disabilities or illnesses. CVS

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials say 93 Americans have died after cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic since 2009, with many of the recent deaths involving a procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift. The operation has grown in popularity recently and has led to deaths in other countries as well, including the U.S. A report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not say

WASHINGTON (AP) - Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies - and new research may finally explain why. It's all about how the body handles females' extra X chromosome, Stanford University researchers reported Thursday - a finding that could lead to better ways to detect a long list of diseases that are hard to diagnose and treat.

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported to the United States. The shift reflects the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing as well as U.S. efforts to import from countries that are friendlier and closer to home. Figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Commerce Department show that the value of goods imported to

NC Newsline - The N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) is calling on schools and community organizations to sponsor Summer Nutrition Programs that provide meals and snacks to needy students when school is out of session. More than 1 million students in North Carolina rely on the meals from the school breakfast, school lunch and afterschool meals programs during the school year. The summer meals help fill the gap for

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The night began with a rare sight: tennis champion Serena Williams was flustered. "I'm a little nervous... I can't breathe," she said through an exasperated smile. "I'm usually really good at this." The overwhelming task was not opening the famed Clive Davis pre-Grammys gala at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California - though that no doubt comes with some social pressure. It was introducing its opening act,

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Help at Home employed nearly 800 caregivers scattered across every county in Alabama, helping 1,100 older and disabled clients with activities such as bathing, housework and meal preparation. And then suddenly, it was gone. Alabama's largest provider of home care services said it abruptly left the state last fall because the state's "reimbursement and regulatory environment" made it difficult to recruit and retain enough workers, according to

UNC-Greensboro's Faculty Senate has voted to censure university's chancellor and provost amid ongoing tensions over the process administrators are using to cut programs at the university. The resolution was "a motion to censure the Chancellor and the Provost for not initiating consultation with the Senate at the start of the APR [Academic Program Review] process and not providing a clear rationale of the choice of program closures." With 39 eligible to

NEW YORK (AP) - Walmart plans to build or convert more than 150 stores in the next five years, while continuing to remodel existing stores. The plan, announced Wednesday, marks a big change for the discounter. In 2016, Walmart announced it was slowing new store openings and instead investing in its online efforts, technology and store remodels as it aimed to be more competitive with online behemoth Amazon. A company spokeswoman said