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Health Care
Disabled Seniors Living Alone Often Have Trouble Getting Care
Only 12 percent of older US adults who rarely or never leave home have access to home-based primary care.
Parents Are Being Asked to Pay the Cost of Delivering Their Babies in Advance
Childbirth is already unaffordable for many. Now some are being asked to pay the bill before they even go into labor.
How a Palestinian Woman Lives With a Rare Illness While Surviving Gaza Genocide
Rana Nabeel Baalousha's only hope of survival is a medical transfer out of Gaza, but Israel won’t allow it.
The Reproductive Justice Movement Must Be Expansive Under a Second Trump Term
With a federal Republican trifecta, the reproductive and disability justice movements need each other more than ever.
Maryland Aims to Train as Many as 120 New Abortion Care Providers Over Two Years
A new training program is offering reproductive health care skills to health care providers across the state.
10,000 Michigan Nurses to Join Teamsters After Largest Union Election in Years
The campaign was a response to staff cuts and unsafe practices after local hospitals were bought out by a conglomerate.
Trump Picks Medicare Privatization Proponent Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare Agency
Critics point out that Mehmet Oz also peddles baseless health advice and “profits from fringe medical ideas.”
UnitedHealth Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Patients’ Treatment at Risk
Deemed illegal in three states, similar practices persist due to a patchwork of regulation.
Hurricane Helene Wrecked Facility That Produces 60 Percent of US’s IV Fluids
The shortage may last months as the US expects an increase in hospitalizations due to respiratory virus season.
Trump Picks Conspiracy Theorist RFK Jr. to Oversee the Country’s Public Health
“There’s no telling how far back” Kennedy could set America, said Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.