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Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that could decide who can provide abortion care in the state

JUNEAU, Alaska -- The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that is expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a 2019 case challengin...

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California Faces Limits as It Directs Health Facilities To Push Back on Immigration Raids

In recent months, federal agents have camped out in the lobby of a Southern California hospital, guarded detained patients — sometimes shackled — in hospital rooms, and chased an immigrant landscap...

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The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many...

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Head Start programs serving nearly 65,000 kids at risk of closing amid government shutdown

Tens of thousands of children and families could be affected by dozens of Head Start programs potentially closing if the federal government shutdown extends past Nov. 1.About 134 programs across 41...

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Anxiety over global warming leading some young Americans to say they don't want kids

Amanda Porretto isn't sure she'll ever have children.At 27, she is the average age of new mothers in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's feeling th...

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Osteoarthritis vs. Rheumatoid Arthritis: How Stem Cells Could Keep Men Moving Strong

Arthritis is not a single disease; it is a category of over a hundred diseases that attack the joints and make them sore and stiff, and restrict the movements. Two of the most prevalent ones includ...

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Phone data could help identify mental health disorders

New research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders. Colin E. Vize, assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Pittsbur...

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ACA Open Enrollment: Changes Include Higher Premiums, Out-of-Pocket Costs

Open enrollment for the health insurance market plans runs from November through mid-January. Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Getty Images Healthcare experts expect monthly premiums for health ...

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Surgeon general nominee Casey Means says she'll focus on 'healing and prevention' instead of 'overmedicalization'

Dr. Casey Means, the wellness entrepreneur President Donald Trump nominated in May to be his surgeon general, will testify Thursday at her confirmation hearing that she would work to put "Americans...

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Germany to give more than $1 billion for Holocaust survivors' home care in 2026

BERLIN -- The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.076 billion (923.9 million euros) for Holoc...

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So Your Insurance Dropped Your Doctor. Now What?

Last winter, Amber Wingler started getting a series of increasingly urgent messages from the local hospital in Columbia, Missouri, letting her know her fa...

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Doctor Tripped Up by $64K Bill for Ankle Surgery and Hospital Stay

Physician Lauren Hughes was heading to see patients at a clinic about 20 miles from her Denver home in February when another driver T-boned her Subaru, totaling it. She was taken by ambulance to th...

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Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt

The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ ...

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The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling

For most of my adult life, I’ve felt helpless about being overweight. When I met with a doctor a few years ago to discuss my high cholesterol, he held up a hunk of faux flesh meant to model a pound...

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Nearly 1 in 5 UTIs Linked to Meat Contaminated With E. Coli, Study Finds

A new study found that around 18% of UTIs are linked to contaminated meat. Maksymenko Nataliia/Getty Images A new study finds that nearly one-fifth of urinary tract infections can be linke...

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New Hampshire man resumes dialysis after record 271 days living with a pig kidney

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's function declinedWASHINGTON -- A New Hampshire man is resuming dialysis after l...

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Zanzibar is seeing a seaweed boom. Can the women collecting it cash in?

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- The women wade with baskets near the beaches, their colorful dresses a magnet for tourist cameras. Sunscreen worn by the holidaymakers may even contain the product the women a...

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A ticking clock: How states are preparing for a last-minute Obamacare deal

This is a KFF Health News story.One family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just found out their health plan's deductible will jump from $800 to $20,000 next year. About 200 miles north, in Maryland, a...

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How the Collapse of USAID Set the U.S. Back in Gaza

Immediately after Hamas and Israel agreed to the first phase of President Donald Trump’s peace plan, food and medical supplies were supposed to start flooding into the Gaza Strip. Like other key as...

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Many Fear Federal Loan Caps Will Deter Aspiring Doctors and Worsen MD Shortage

Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could e...

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An Arm and a Leg: A Listener’s DIY Project Helps Others Deal With High Medical Bills

In April, Thomas Sanford, a medical student who regularly listens to “An Arm and a Leg,” set out to create a resource he could easily share with patients to help them deal with unaffordable medical...

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