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The Impact of Medicaid Cuts on Infection Prevention and Public Health
March 10, 2025 By Niobis Queiro, MBA,Imamu Tomlinson, MD, MBA Experts Niobis Queiro, MBA, and Imamu Tomlinson, MD, MBA, discuss how Medicaid cuts could impact infection prevention, reduce vaccinations, and strain health systems, exacerbating health disparities. Medicaid funding plays a crucial role in supporting infection prevention programs, vaccination initiatives, and access to essential health care services…
Millions in US Live in Places Where Doctors Don’t Practice and Telehealth Doesn’t Reach
By Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker March 10, 2025 BOLIGEE, Ala. — Green lights flickered on the wireless router in Barbara Williams’ kitchen. Just one bar lit up — a weak signal connecting her to the world beyond her home in the Alabama Black Belt. Next to the router sat medications, vitamin D pills, and Williams’…
Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month
Advocates say the coverage has bipartisan support, but efforts to make it permanent have been unsuccessful thus far. By Bracey Harris | NBC News • Published February 27, 2025 • Updated on February 27, 2025 at 5:01 pm For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend. Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in…
What to know about state proposals to ban abortion pills and punish women who seek to end pregnancies
By — Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Feb 11, 2025 1:32 PM EDT Lawmakers in some states where abortion is already banned are seeking to explicitly bar abortion pills or take a step that most leading anti-abortion groups oppose: punish women who seek to end their pregnancies. It’s too early in some legislative sessions to know…
Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities
Social networks and online apps should be more inclusive of the needs of all people in society, the Human Rights heard, in a debate covering digital and assistive technologies. 10 March 2025 States must do more to prevent cyberbullying and overcome unequal access to assistive technology which hampers the rights of persons with disabilities –…
Will a Texas-led legal fight over gender dysphoria threaten disabled student protections?
Kayla Jimenez March 12, 2025 Villanova University student Kaleigh Brendle has had low vision her entire young life. At her college in Pennsylvania and as a child growing up in New Jersey, she has used screen-reading technology that turns written documents or books into audio recordings and hardcover braille texts. To compensate for the longer…
Here’s how a Pennsylvania school is setting students with autism, intellectual disabilities up for success
By Madeleine Wright Updated on: March 8, 2025 / 12:11 PM EST / CBS Philadelphia People with autism often face barriers to employment, but a private school in Middletown Township, Delaware County, is coming up with a solution. Davidson School, operated by the nonprofit Elwyn, opened a café on Feb. 3 so students can get real world…
Wisconsin appeals court overturns ruling allowing for emailing ballots to disabled voters
By SCOTT BAUER Updated 3:49 PM CDT, March 12, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election. The initial ruling by a Dane County Circuit Court judge allowing for the…
What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities
Experts say this week’s mass layoffs could lead to less research and support for children nationwide. March 12, 2025, 6:34 PM CDT By Tyler Kingkade and Adam Edelman Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, citing blows to the…