Medications that otherwise would’ve been banned went to unsuspecting patients across the US, including some with cancer.
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The FDA Allowed Contaminated Factories to Send Drugs to the US Read Post »
Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]
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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Read Post »
The Senate Finance Committee text goes even further than the House version in its attacks on the program.
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Senate GOP Budget Draft Proposes Even Bigger Cuts to Medicaid Funding Read Post »
Doctors can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on marital status, party affiliation, or union activity.
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New Rules Let Veterans Affairs Doctors Refuse to Treat Democrats, Unmarried Vets Read Post »
People who use Medicaid make up half of the total patient volume nationwide for the clinics’ health care services.
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GOP Budget Puts at Least 200 Planned Parenthood Clinics Nationwide at Risk Read Post »
At least six people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. José is worried that he could be next.
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Man Says ICE Isn’t Treating His Cancer — and His Isn’t the Only Case of Neglect Read Post »
A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]
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More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth Read Post »
White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.
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Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump Read Post »
The GOP budget’s cuts to Medicaid threaten to decimate 59 trauma recovery centers in 15 states.
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Community-Based Violence Reduction Efforts Could Be Casualties of GOP Budget Read Post »
While the GOP slashes health care funding at the federal level, some state governors are following suit.
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As We Defend Medicaid, We Can’t Lose Sight of the End Goal: Free, Universal Care Read Post »
Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.
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Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year Read Post »
Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like […]
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Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse. Read Post »
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