Getting the average American to work one year longer by starting earlier or retiring later would generate about $3 trillion for the economy, said the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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The cuts, which represent about 12% of Foster Success’ budget for its Indiana programs, will curb access to basic needs assistance, education and job training, financial empowerment and networking.
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The U.S. Agriculture Department released the inspection records that documented unsanitary conditions at several Boar’s Head deli meat plants, not just the factory that was shut down after a deadly outbreak of listeria poisoning.
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A customer’s sighting of a mouse in Steer-In’s dining room led to a call to the health department, restaurant co-owner Casey Kehrer said.
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Former state Sen. Jim Merritt has a new book out titled “Lessons Learned: Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? History Says No.” detailing Indiana’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
A bill letting Indiana counties continue syringe service programs became law Monday without Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s signature.
Republican lawmakers are divided over limiting disease spread versus arguments of enabling drug abuse.
The change is part of the Trump EPA’s broader goal of slashing regulations, saying they are hindering economic growth.
The plan is described as a “collaborative effort” to be jointly led by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and the Indiana Department of Health.
The recently established Indy Health District is dedicated to reducing health inequity across Indianapolis. It stretches from St. Clair Street north to 38th Street, encompassing 1,500 acres.
CNBC reported earlier this year that non-alcoholic beer sales were expected to surpass ale as the second-largest beer category worldwide. Retail sales for non-alcoholic beer surpassed $17 billion in 2023.
Nestle joins Kraft Heinz and General Mills as major food companies to pledge they would remove artificial dyes from their U.S. products.
Since 2000, the Indiana Department of Health has surveyed more than 4,800 public middle and high school students every two years to monitor tobacco trends.
Gov. Mike Braun and Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith are fans of the new exclusions—and so is U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
If the rate holds after final review, it would be Indiana’s lowest since the state began tracking the measure in 1900.
Andrew Merkley, administrator for the Division of Homelessness Policy and Eviction Prevention, has worked in the Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety since 2020.
The analysis—conducted and presented by Butler University students—was the winning entry into the recent Total Cost of Care Data Challenge contest.
The United States has experienced more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024.
The Department of Health and Human Services said it would “no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.”
Internal documents show that officials at HHS had been considering whether to continue the program or dispose of millions of tests.
President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to scrutinize the “threat” to children posed by antidepressants, stimulants and other common psychiatric drugs.
Cases of the illness known as norovirus—which induces miserable bouts of vomiting and diarrhea—are surging across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to believe that slivered onions from a single supplier are the likely source of contamination, McDonald’s said in a statement.
The removal of onions comes amid a federal investigation into the E. coli outbreak, which has sickened 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died.
