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Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

Matching the sickest patients with social workers and medical support doesn't reduce costly hospital readmissions, a study finds. Still, some believe greater social investment could make a difference.

Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

Matching the sickest patients with social workers and medical support doesn't reduce costly hospital readmissions, a study finds. Still, some believe greater social investment could make a difference.

This aerial photo shows Ain al-Assad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, in December 2019.

Iran Launches Missile Attacks On Military Bases Housing U.S. Troops In Iraq

Iran says the airstrikes were carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

The FBI on Tuesday arrested a New Jersey police sergeant, accusing him of stealing thousands of dollars in cash from suspects in drug cases and dividing up the money among officers he supervised.

FBI Arrests New Jersey Police Sergeant Accused Of Stealing Money From Drug Suspects

He is the eighth and highest-ranking police officer arrested in connection with a corruption scandal that has rocked the department in Paterson, N.J.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Who Stirred Conversation With 'Prozac Nation,' Dies At 52

The 1994 memoir opened a national dialogue about clinical depression and introduced readers to Wurtzel's brash, unapologetic voice. Wurtzel died of breast cancer at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday.

Shoppers walk around the Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego in this photo taken December 23, 2019.

Business Report: Strong Economy Reflected In Holiday Sales

This week in business: recap of holiday shopping, increase in California minimum wage and home constructions.

Senator Joseph McCarthy and Senator Millard Tydings [R] Maryland, face off on the first day of hearings into McCarthy’s allegations that scores of communists were working in the State Department.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: McCarthy

Airs Monday, Jan. 6, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Saturday, Jan. 11 at Noon on KPBS 2

Boats are pulled ashore as smoke and bushfires rage behind Australia's Lake Conjola on Thursday. Thousands of tourists fled the country's fire-ravaged eastern coast this week ahead of worsening conditions.

Australians Brace For Flames As 'Frighteningly Quick' Bushfires Advance Toward Sydney

Authorities have warned of worsening conditions over the weekend, while the deputy fire commissioner for New South Wales cautions people of the fires' "frighteningly quick" advance.

Property damaged by the East Gippsland fires in Sarsfield, Victoria, on New Year's Day.

Australians Brace For Flames As 'Frighteningly Quick' Bushfires Advance Toward Sydney

Authorities have warned of worsening conditions over the weekend, while the deputy fire commissioner for New South Wales cautions people of the fires' "frighteningly quick" advance.

An Indian nurse looks at x-ray results of patient Shyam Lal suspected to have tuberculosis at Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Hospital at Ram Nagar in Varanasi, India, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

Century-Old TB Vaccine May Work Better If Given In A New Way

Scientists think they’ve figured out how to make a century-old tuberculosis vaccine far more protective: Simply give the shot a different way.

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