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Lawmakers Seek To Protect Crisis Pregnancy Centers as Abortion Clinic Numbers Shrink

Conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing legislation drafted by an anti-abortion advocacy group to increase protections for crisis pregnancy centers, organizations that provide some he...

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Oz Says California’s Not Fighting Health Care Fraud, but Data Shows It’s Part of a Larger Battle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For weeks, Mehmet Oz has been waging a public feud with California leaders over health care fraud, accusing the blue state of failing to adequately combat such abuse. ...

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Watch: Affordability Plagues Health Care in Its Shift From Nonprofit to Profit Machine

On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Drew Altman, president and CEO of KFF, to talk about the likelihood...

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Many ACA Customers Are Paying Higher Premiums. Most Blame Trump and Republicans, Poll Finds.

Most people who get their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act say they face sharply higher costs, with many worried they will have to pare back other expenses to cover them, according t...

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A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory

On Monday, a federal judge issued a preliminary ruling with a harsh reprimand for the Trump administration: You’ve done this vaccine stuff all wrong.The Trump administration likely broke the law, t...

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This Hospital Worker Had 3 Attacks in 4 Days. ‘Listening’ to His Body May Have Saved His Life

Patient transporter Tommy Bell (pictured above) survived 3 heart attacks over 4 days, thanks to quick thinking — and care from colleagues at the hospital where he worked. Advent Health 62-...

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Type 2 Diabetes Risk Varies Widely in Young Adults. How GLP-1s Can Help

New research highlights a need for earlier, more tailored interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes in young adults with prediabetes. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Researchers found that type ...

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‘Worst-case scenario’: Middle East nuclear concerns haunt top health officials

World Health Organization officials are preparing for a nuclear catastrophe if the U.S.-Israel war with Iran escalates further. U.N. staff are monitoring the fallout of U.S-Israeli attacks o...

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Maker of Device To Treat Addiction Withdrawal Seeks Counties’ Opioid Settlement Cash

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the early 2000s, Michelle Warfield worked at a factory, hauling heavy seats for Ford trucks on and off an assembly line. To suppress daily aches in her back and hips, her docto...

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Evidence Shows ACA’s Mandated Benefits Alone Don’t Drive Up Costs. The Debate Continues.

In January, when President Donald Trump unveiled his one-page outline to address health care spending, dubbed “The Great Healthcare Plan,” he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act’s role i...

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Extra Belly Fat, Not BMI, a Stronger Predictor of Heart Failure Risk

Reducing inflammation could help lower heart failure risk in people with excess belly fat. Milena Magazin/Getty Images Researchers say extra abdominal fat is strongly associated with an in...

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New AHA Cholesterol Guidelines Emphasize Earlier Screening, Treatment

New AHA guidelines focus on earlier cholesterol screening and treatment. Image Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty Images The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (A...

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Girls’ Sports Are Getting More Physical

At the turn of the 20th century, a sporty American woman would have had relatively few arenas to test her skill: croquet, maybe, or archery, or basketball played gently in an ankle-length skirt. Pu...

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Judge Blocks RFK Jr.’s Child Vaccine Policies, Says They Disregard Science

A federal judge has overturned HHS Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. Matthias Bein/picture alliance via Getty Images A federal judge has struck down...

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No Pseudonymity for Plaintiffs Alleging Sean Combs (P. Diddy) Sexually Assaulted Them

From today's opinion in Doe v. Combs, by Second Circuit Judges Michael Park, William Nardini, and Maria Araújo Kahn, the key paragraphs: "[O]ur review of a district court's decision to grant or de...

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Does medicinal cannabis work for depression, anxiety or PTSD? Our study says there’s no evidence

Kosamtu/GettyThe number of Australians using medicinal cannabis has surged over the past five years. Around 700,000 Australians have used cannabis for their health in the past year. And since ...

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Psychiatrists’ Use of Biomarkers Could Open a New Window Into Mental Health Diagnoses

Amanda Miller was 30 and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After she gave birth, her depression worsened. It was joined by a slew of unexplaine...

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Lost in Transmission: Changes in Organ Donor Status Can Fall Through Cracks in the System

When Raven Kinser walked into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office two summers ago, she completed a driver’s license application that included the option to register as an organ donor. Th...

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Birth Control Skepticism, Teen Fertility Education Center Stage at Trump’s Women’s Health Summit

WASHINGTON — Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have...

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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind

Photographs by Stacy KranitzWhat does it feel like to be struck by lightning?There is no easy analogue. A defibrillator delivers up to 1,000 volts to a patient’s heart; inmates executed by electric...

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The Peptide Boom Is Getting Out of Hand

There’s no ambiguity about who Vyleesi is for. The prescription drug, commonly referred to as female Viagra, boosts the libido of women experiencing hypoactive-sexual-desire disorder, a condition i...

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