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Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID have risen in recent weeks, with roughly 7,300 people dying of the disease in the past 3 months, however, data suggests that the people getting shots are often not those most at risk.

Spurred by the sharp rise in email messaging during the pandemic, a growing number of health systems have started charging patients when physicians send replies to their messages.

There are still many questions about how to integrate artificial intelligence into health care systems, however, the race is on: The Mayo Clinic is integrating a chatbot into its system.

The Biden administration asked the high court on Sept. 8 to uphold broad access to mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill, seeking a review of a ruling that would bar mail-order prescriptions and require in-person doctor visits.

The CDC committee, which sets U.S. vaccination policy and helps determine insurance coverage for vaccines, will vote on the question Tuesday as it weighs the benefits of updated vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax.

CMS has proposed speeding up the response times for authorization, but some desperate patients have turned to publicly shaming insurance companies on social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved.

HCA, whose data breach may have impacted 11 million patients, is among several health care companies that have recently suffered such attacks, prompting the FBI and Secret Service to issue warnings to potential targets.

Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Virginia Foxx sent a letter to Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to "cease further action" on a new fiduciary rule, which has "created unnecessary instability for retirement plans."