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Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to “rescue” maternal health care system
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Why these doctors started writing medical ‘prescriptions’ for solar power
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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests
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He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities
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Hearing loss is biggest disability among military veterans, expert says
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Texas follows Louisiana’s lead to reclassify reproductive care drugs as controlled substances
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What Trump’s win could mean for transgender health care access, athletes
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Abortion pills may be FDA’s first test under Trump
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Trump’s plans to change healthcare could slash insurance for some low-income Americans and retirees
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CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
By Alexander Tin Updated on: April 10, 2025 / 9:26 AM EDT Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was…
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Researchers, ACLU sue over Trump’s ‘ideological purge’ of NIH grants
By Nate Raymond April 2, 2025 2:49 PM CDT Summary BOSTON, April 2 (Reuters) – Scientific researchers on Wednesday sued to secure reinstatement of National Institutes of Health grants that funded…
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Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much
By Tony Leys March 25, 2025 PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of…
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After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines
March 19, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Rosemary Westwood At the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), physicians use telehealth to prescribe and mail pills to people who live in states…
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Tribes That Rely on Federal Funds for Medical Care Worry About DOGE Cuts
by Solcyré Burga Mar 21, 2025 3:42 PM CT The reservation of the Kashia Pomo Tribe, based in Sonoma County, Calif., is nearly two hours away from the nearest hospital…
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Online GLP-1 sales fuel hormone replacement therapy
Tina Reed Mar 11, 2025 The surge of online weight-loss drug providers is unexpectedly fueling demand for a much older, once-stigmatized treatment: hormone replacement therapy. Why it matters: Facing a dearth…
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Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Lauren Weber Sun, March 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM CDT HONDO, Tex. – Jaylee Williams needed to find somewhere to deliver her son. The 19-year-old knew more about barrel racing…
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Trump’s policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources say
March 12, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Katia Riddle In the wake of federal firings and executive orders, providers and patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs say mental health and mental health…
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Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers
March 9, 20256:00 AM ETRyan Lucas One morning in late August 2021, Phebe Brandt was attending to patients at a Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, where she works as a…
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Risks of state abortion reporting mandates outweigh the benefits, an advocacy group says
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Updated 9:47 AM CDT, March 12, 2025 States should stop requiring health providers to file reports on every abortion because the information poses a risk to both them…
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