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Focus on Shooter’s Mental Health Frustrates Experts

Frustration is mounting in the medical community as President Donald Trump’s administration again points to mental illness in response to a mass shooting. “The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense,” said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago’s Rush University Medical College. “The vast majority of gun violence […]

February 22, 2018

Study: More Teens Reject Gender Labels

More teenagers are identifying themselves with nontraditional gender labels such as transgender or gender-fluid, according to a new study. The research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that almost 3% of Minnesota teens did not identify with traditional gender labels such as “boy” or “girl.” That number is higher than researchers expected. A UCLA […]

February 20, 2018

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House Votes to Gut A.D.A.

In a 225-192 vote Thursday, most House Republicans and a dozen Democrats passed a bill that makes it harder for disabled persons to sue for discrimination, in an effort to prevent opportunistic attorneys from taking advantage of business owners. But many disability and civil rights groups fear the bill will weaken incentives for businesses to […]

February 20, 2018

Budget Cuts Funds for Tracking Global Disease

There’s a glaring hole in President Trump’s budget proposal for 2019, global health researchers say. A U.S. program to help other countries beef up their ability to detect pathogens around the world will lose a significant portion of its funding. The ambitious program, called Global Health Security Agenda, was launched in early 2014, aiming to […]

February 14, 2018

Trump Budget Slashes Funds for HHS

A major target of the budget is Medicaid, which sees more than $1 trillion in cuts and is turned into a block grant program with greater power to states to implement means-testing. The document assumes repeal of most of the ACA, but interestingly includes funding for risk corridor and cost-sharing payments for insurers. The plan […]

February 14, 2018

Sign-Ups for Obamacare Holding Steady in 2018

WASHINGTON — Almost 12 million Americans signed up for 2018 health coverage through marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, according to a new tally that indicates nationwide enrollment remained virtually unchanged from last year despite President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on the 2010 health law. The new enrollment numbers — which include totals from […]

February 12, 2018

Expert: Sexual Abuse Can Lead to Physical Illness

When Rebecca Thurston read the accounts of 150 women and girls sexually abused by a Michigan athletic doctor, one of the first things she worried about was their health — not the psychological effect of the abuse, but the long-term physical toll it could take on their bodies. An epidemiologist, Thurston has spent the past […]

February 12, 2018

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Glitch Results in Pay Cuts for Public Health Workers

About 3,000 Public Health Service physicians and other workers saw their paychecks unexpectedly slashed last month because of government delays setting up a payment system Congress ordered a decade ago. “A number of unanticipated events impacted our ability to fully execute these provisions,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers in […]

February 7, 2018

Brits Defend System After Tweet Attack

Prime Minister Theresa May and other British politicians defended this nation’s beloved, taxpayer-funded public health system Monday after President Trump said it was “going broke and not working.” May said she is “proud” of the National Health Service (NHS) after Trump said in a tweet that “thousands of people” in Britain were “marching about it.” […]

February 7, 2018

Planned Parenthood Slams Rule on Moral Objections

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is encouraging their supporters to tell the Department of Health Human Services (HHS) that a proposed rule to strengthen conscience protections for healthcare providers is “dangerous” and “encourages discrimination.” The rule requires health care providers to notify their employees of protections against religious discrimination on job applications and […]

February 5, 2018

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Half of Post-9/11 Vets Lack Mental Care

About half of U.S. veterans who served during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t get the mental health care they need, according to a new report that recommends changes to improve the care delivered by the Veterans Affairs health system. While many veterans receive good mental health care through the VA , it’s inconsistent […]

February 5, 2018

State of Union Touts End to Mandate

In his State of the Union address, President Trump seemed to attempt to declare victory in the Republican effort to eliminate Obamacare, stating that “we repealed the core” of it. But the Affordable Care Act, the law’s expansion of Medicaid benefits for the poor and subsidized private individual coverage known as Obamacare are still covering […]

February 1, 2018

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Healthcare Groups Welcome Alex Azar at HHS

HHS again has a permanent leader as former Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar was sworn in as the department’s secretary on Jan. 29—four months to the day after his predecessor, Tom Price, MD, resigned over his use of publicly-funded charter flights. Azar was sworn in at the White House by Vice President Mike Pence. In […]

February 1, 2018

Many Latinos Shun Care Over Deportation Fears

MIAMI — The number of legal immigrants from Latin American nations who access public health services and enroll in federally subsidized insurance plans has dipped substantially since President Donald Trump took office, many of them fearing their information could be used to identify and deport relatives living in the U.S. illegally, according to health advocates […]

January 29, 2018

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2 States Sue U.S. Over Funding Cuts

In the lawsuit, New York and Minnesota are challenging the HHS cutting off federal funds to the program. They charge that the agency’s actions violate the Administrative Procedure Act. The two states’ BHPs cover more than 800,000 people combined, including New York’s Essential Plan that covers more than 700,000 low-income New Yorkers. States with a […]

January 29, 2018

Flu Season Reveals Danger in Medical Supply Chain

Flu season in the United States typically peaks in February, but this year’s outbreak is already one of the worst on record. As of Jan. 6, 20 children have died of influenza, and overall mortality caused by the flu is already double that of last year’s. One reason the flu is so severe this season […]

January 24, 2018

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Bill Extends CHIP for 6 Years, Delays ACA Taxes

Nearly four months after it missed the deadline to reauthorize CHIP, Congress finally reauthorized the widely-popular program that covers about 8.4 million children and provides maternity coverage for about 370,000 women. The extension of CHIP is welcomed by states that were running out of CHIP funding, families, hospitals and providers (especially children’s hospitals), and safety […]

January 24, 2018

2 Dozen Senators Question Medicaid Work Rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s new policy allowing state work requirements for Medicaid recipients is legally questionable, more than two dozen Democratic senators said Thursday, framing an argument likely to be aired in court. The senators’ letter to acting health secretary Eric Hargan reads like a memo to legal groups preparing a court challenge […]

January 22, 2018