More Restrooms Have Adult-Size Changing Tables To Help People With Disabilities
Adults with disabilities and their caregivers are pressing governments and private businesses across the U.S. to help them avoid undignified public bathroom experiences.
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Arkansas鈥 Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn鈥檛 Needed
Federal law requires states to provide pregnancy-related Medicaid coverage through 60 days after delivery. Arkansas has not expanded what鈥檚 called postpartum Medicaid coverage, an option that gives poor women uninterrupted health insurance for a year after they give birth.
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No One Wants To Talk About Racial Trauma. Why My Family Broke Our Silence.
Every family has secrets. I spent the past few years reporting about racial violence in Sikeston, Missouri. Interviewing Black families there helped me uncover my family's traumatic past, too.
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Disability Rights Activist Pushes Government To Let Him Participate in Society
Garret Frey won a U.S. Supreme Court case as a teenager who needed assistance to attend high school. Now, he鈥檚 gained concessions under Iowa鈥檚 Medicaid program to help him live at home instead of in a care facility.
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Journalists Highlight Maternal Health Challenges in Rural America, From Iowa to Georgia
吃瓜不打烊 and California Healthline staff took to the airwaves in the last couple of weeks to discuss maternal health care challenges in rural areas. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Native American Public Health Officials Are Stuck in Data Blind Spot
For decades, state and federal agencies have restricted or delayed tribes and tribal epidemiology centers from accessing public health data, a blackout that leaves health workers in Native American communities cobbling together information to guide their work, including tracking devastating disease outbreaks.
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Rural Hospitals Built During Baby Boom Now Face Baby Bust
Fewer than half of rural U.S. hospitals offer labor and delivery services. In some areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the baby boom鈥檚 peak.
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鈥楢 Bottomless Pit鈥: How Out-of-Pocket TMJ Costs Drive Patients Into Debt
Millions of Americans suffer from temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, disorders. The high cost and poor insurance coverage of TMJ care can bury patients in debt even as the treatments do more harm than good.
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Therapists Learn How To Help Farmers Cope With Stress Before It鈥檚 Too Late
Many farmers have traditionally handled their own problems, whether it鈥檚 a busted tractor or debilitating anxiety. 鈥淲ith the older generation, it鈥檚 still, 鈥楽uck it up and get over it,鈥欌 says an Iowa mental health advocate and farmer.
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An Obscure Drug Discount Program Stifles Use of Federal Lifeline by Rural Hospitals
A disconnect between two federal programs meant to help keep hospitals afloat discourages struggling rural facilities from accepting the aid.
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FDA Urged To Relax Decades-Old Tissue Donation Restrictions for Gay and Bisexual Men
Federal regulations prevent gay and bisexual men from donating tissue, such as corneas, ligaments, and blood vessels. Similar restrictions have been relaxed or lifted for donated blood and organs in recent years.
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Millions Were Booted From Medicaid. The Insurers That Run It Gained Medicaid Revenue Anyway.
Big health insurers that have contracts with state Medicaid programs find themselves making more money even as enrollment in Medicaid programs has dropped. Here鈥檚 why.
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Conservative Justices Stir Trouble for Republican Politicians on Abortion
Republicans are learning the admonition 鈥渂e careful what you wish for,鈥 as conservative judges cause them political problems over abortion in a crucial election year.
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For-Profit Companies Open Psychiatric Hospitals in Areas Clamoring for Care
State institutions and community hospitals have closed inpatient mental health units, often citing staffing and financial challenges. Now, for-profit companies are opening psychiatric hospitals to fill the void.
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As AI Eye Exams Prove Their Worth, Lessons for Future Tech Emerge
With artificial intelligence in health care on the rise, eye screenings for diabetic retinopathy are emerging as one of the first proven use cases of AI-based diagnostics in a clinical setting.
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How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health
Framed in the rhetoric of choice, Tennessee鈥檚 new law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and children鈥檚 health.
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Bathroom Bills Are Back 鈥 Broader and Stricter 鈥 In Several States
State lawmakers are resurrecting and expanding efforts to prohibit transgender people from using public restrooms and other spaces that match their gender. Some have sought to ban trans people from 鈥渟ex-designated spaces,鈥 including domestic violence shelters and crisis centers, which experts say could violate anti-discrimination laws and jeopardize federal funding.
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The Powerful Constraints on Medical Care in Catholic Hospitals Across America
The expansion of Catholic hospitals nationwide leaves patients at the mercy of the church鈥檚 religious directives, which are often at odds with accepted medical standards.
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Federal Program to Save Rural Hospitals Feels 鈥楪rowing Pains鈥
Fewer than two dozen rural hospitals were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program鈥檚 first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and keep health care in rural communities.
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Rising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Even in states where laws protect minors鈥 access to gender-affirming care, malpractice insurance premiums are keeping small and independent clinics from treating patients.