Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers’ bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable.
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Trump’s push to end transgender care for young people opposed by pediatricians
Doctors and children’s hospitals say nothing in the evidence has changed to justify the Trump administration’s efforts to ban gender-affirming care for teens and tweens.
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RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
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ACA shoppers face sticker shock as Congress dithers on health care
With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution.
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After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
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Republicans push high deductible plans and health savings accounts
A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt.
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Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.’s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
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Louisiana’s top health official, a critic of the COVID vaccine, will be CDC deputy
Louisiana’s surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines “dangerous,” will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.
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Iowa doesn’t have enough OB-GYNs. Is the state’s abortion ban part of the problem?
Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state’s strict abortion ban is partially to blame.
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As sports betting explodes, should states set more limits to stop gambling addiction?
With concerns about addiction rising, some advocates and lawmakers call for federal regulations on the gambling industry — but would settle for more state laws to help curb excessive betting.
