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Senate Votes to Cut $930 Billion From Medicaid

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On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s intensely contested budget bill for the coming fiscal year, returning it to the House in a form that would slash $93 billion from annual federal Medicaid spending across the next decade, require states to implement Medicaid work requirements for adults (with limited exemptions), and strip health insurance […]

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Abortion Bans Make the Common Experience of Miscarriage Far More Dangerous

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Blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriages in Texas rose by 54 percent since 2022.

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SCOTUS Allows South Carolina to Block Planned Parenthood From Accepting Medicaid

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The decision threatens health care access for hundreds of thousands and sets a dangerous precedent in other states.

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for States to Defund Planned Parenthood

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At a time when Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health care, faces unprecedented threats to its very survival on multiple fronts, the Supreme Court added another one on Thursday. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that if states decide to unilaterally cut off Medicaid funding to a healthcare provider—in this case […]

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The International Provider

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Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]

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They Came to Addiction Treatment Centers Seeking Help. Instead, They Were Harassed and Assaulted.

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Across the country, women seeking addiction treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step. “I fell right into it, right into it. You know, it’s like, it’s just, you’re so vulnerable,” says a […]

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Texas Judge Throws Out Biden Rule Protecting Medical Privacy on Abortion

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An ultra-conservative federal judge in Texas has lobbed another hand grenade in his long-running battle to limit access to reproductive healthcare around the country—this time by vacating a privacy rule intended to shield abortion seekers and providers from criminal and civil state investigations. In a sweeping ruling late Wednesday, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of […]

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RFK Jr. Poses a Threat to Vaccine Policy. Here’s How Doctors Are Preparing.

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Physicians are taking joint actions and figuring out how to give patients reliable information amid the uncertainty.

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FDA Approves “Breakthrough” HIV Drug

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On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a highly effective, injectable drug to help prevent the transmission of HIV, according to its manufacturer, Gilead Sciences. The drug, lenacapavir, will be sold under the name Yeztugo. “This is a historic day in the decades-long fight against HIV,” Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day said in a press […]

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