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With prices of necessities rising dramatically, many older Americans are having trouble making ends meet. They often don’t know that help is available from a variety of programs, and some sources of financial assistance are underused.
Covid and measles shots, IVF access, abortion rates, Biden's physical, weight-loss drugs, drug use, microplastics, and more are in the news.
Gene therapies, abortion pill access, medical education, RSV, gun violence, mental health care, and more are in the news.
Open enrollment, pharmacy workers, abortion pill, AI, gene therapy, and more are in the news. Plus, see our Halloween haiku contest winners.
Drug pricing, abortion pill hearing, maternal deaths, Medicaid coverage, covid, fentanyl, Parkinson's disease, and more are in today's news.
Dozens of Iowa hospitals have closed their birthing units. A team of University of Iowa nurse midwives can’t reopen them, but they’ve found a way to provide prenatal checkups and other crucial services in two towns.
Social Security clawbacks, maternal health, NIH nominee hearing, Medicare Advantage, Paxlovid cost, and more are in the news.
Sexual health clinics are scrambling to properly track, test, and treat hundreds of monkeypox patients. So far, it isn’t going well.
Sixteen children and young adults are suing the state over energy policies they say are hurting their health and environment. The flooding that closed Yellowstone National Park may show they have a point.
Efforts to combat drug overdoses, school gun violence, covid, abortion laws, prior authorizations, RSV, flu, and more are in the news.
High medical bills, Medicaid enrollment, overdoses, covid tests, Alzheimer's, abortion law, flu shots, and more are in the news.
Montana, one of about a dozen states still managing its own Medicaid programs, has a new Medicaid director who championed handing the management of the program to private companies in Iowa and Kansas.
Monday's roundup cover election health stakes, overstressed ERs, Medicare, Medicaid, abortion, covid, RSV, gender care, and more.
A journalism professor’s four failed pregnancies forced her to use procedures or drugs that could soon be difficult to turn to.
In early 2022, Illinois joined a growing number of states where lawmakers and school leaders are trying to combat the ongoing student mental health crisis by granting days off for mental health needs.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has yet to make clear its stand on Roe v. Wade. But state lawmakers aren’t waiting to consider a variety of extreme measures: bills that would ban abortions in cases of ectopic pregnancies, allow rapists’ families to object to terminating a victim’s pregnancy, or prohibit the procedure in the case of fetal disability. Do these proposals make the less extreme restrictions seem more mainstream?
Mental health stigmas, Medicare spending, covid variants and vaccines, RSV, Narcan, pharmacy mistakes, ADHD, and more are in the news.
National data shows that Black Medicare patients and their families are not making the move to comfort care as often as white patients are. Experts speculate it's related to spiritual beliefs and widespread mistrust in the medical system due to decades of discrimination.
Medical debt is most prevalent in the Southeast, where states have not expanded Medicaid and have few consumer protection laws. Now, North Carolina is considering two bills that could change that, making the state a leader in protecting patients from high medical bills.
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