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Clinicians and researchers are starting to embrace an effort to develop whatās known as āshame competenceā in physicians to combat burnout and prevent that uncomfortable emotion from being passed along to patients.
Louisiana health officials appear to have deviated from the usual steps for public health communications amid a whooping cough outbreak after it killed two infants.
Local governments have received hundreds of millions of dollars from the opioid settlements to support addiction treatment, recovery, and prevention efforts. Their spending decisions in 2024 were sometimes surprising and even controversial. Our new database offers more than 10,500 examples.
Federal health authorities have taken the "unprecedented" step of instructing states to investigate certain individuals on Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting theyāve received more than 170,000 names collectively.
The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Hereās a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.
Floridaās surgeon general, spiritual healers, and Trump allies push their cures in a swampy outpost of anti-government absolutism and mystical belief.
Although racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma remain, Black survivors of multiple myeloma say the latest developments in treatment give them hope even as federal research cuts create a grim forecast for cancer research.
A standoff in Congress is keeping much of the government shut down as open enrollment begins in most states for Affordable Care Act plans. Democrats are demanding Republicans agree to extend ACA tax credits, but there has been little negotiating ā even as customers are learning what theyāll pay for coverage next year. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is telling states they canāt pass their own laws to keep medical debt off consumersā credit reports. Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join ³Ō¹Ļ²»“ņģČā Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more.
Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival ā a sign of whatās to come for millions of Americans.
California now has a law requiring hospitals and clinics to improve patient privacy and have clear protocols for handling requests by immigration agents. Legal experts say the state canāt fully protect immigrant patients, because federal authorities are allowed in public places, including hospital lobbies, general waiting areas, and parking lots.
Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval could cloud this yearās open enrollment season, which begins in most states on Saturday.
Health care professionals fear that new caps on federal student lending, set to start in July, will put medical school out of reach for many who want to become doctors and exacerbate physician shortages. Others say unlimited federal lending has fed a rise in academic costs, saddling families and, ultimately, taxpayers with debt.
Florida has announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children ā whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus ā are likely to make a resurgence and when.
³Ō¹Ļ²»“ņģČ journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
The Trump administration says itās developing a digital tool to help people prove theyāre meeting new Medicaid work requirements. ³Ō¹Ļ²»“ņģČ talked to officials from the two states running pilot programs and found little evidence of new ā or effective ā technology.
States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but itās not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid cuts loom.
As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.
The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of Health and Human Services.
In Mississippi, a state with one of the highest obesity rates in the nation, Medicaid covers weight loss drugs, but few enrollees have signed up for the benefit.
As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligibility systems.
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