ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Senate voted Friday to confirm Mark Cruz, a citizen of the Klamath Tribes, to lead the federal agency that provides healthcare for some 2.8 million Native American and Alaska Native patients. Cruz was confirmed to serve a four-year term as director of the Indian Health Service, a position that has sat vacant since late 2025. At his July confirmation hearing, Cruz said he would advocate “ferociously” to improve health outcomes in Indian Country and bring lived experience to the role. “My family, my friends and my tribal community will live with the consequences of…

Some Alberta medical clinics are taking a wait-and-see approach to the province’s new program that lets patients bypass their doctor and privately book diagnostic imaging tests.And those who run the machines are skeptical the province’s plan will work at all.”The fact is we do not have enough [medical radiation technologists]…

Water is under stress when we use 20 percent of renewable freshwater resources, and severely stressed at 40 per cent, according to the European Environmental Agency (EEA)’s Water Exploitation Index Plus (WEI+). Today, 30 percent of Europeans and 20 percent of land face water scarcity each year, according to the…

Don Nelson, a former NBA player and head coach who is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died, his family announced on Sunday. He was 86.Nelson played in the NBA from 1963 to 1976 and was a head coach in the league from 1977…

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Many of the roughly 10-14 million middle-income older adults in the US are attracted to senior living communities and are prime candidates to move. And collectively they have hundreds of billions of dollars to spend. But they don’t relocate because they can’t afford it.The vast majority of these developments—whether stand-alone…

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