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Disability amid disaster: People with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters
After disasters, people with disabilities are more likely to be displaced, more likely to never return home and more likely to receive scam offers, Census Bureau data shows. Feb. 23, 2025, 6:00 AM CST / Updated Feb. 23, 2025, 2:10 PM CST By Ash Reynolds As Reda Rountree and her family packed their bags and prepared to flee their…
Genetic info would be shielded from life, disability, long-term care insurance under Nebraska bill
Feb 20, 2025 | 12:45 pm ET By Zach Wendling LINCOLN — Brandi Muhle was 9 years old when her 35-year-old mother, an Omaha police officer and a marathon runner, was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Muhle said her mother, Kamie K. Preston, never smoked or drank and was “the picture of perfect health.” Preston fought and…
Lurie Children’s transgender patients, parents speak about toll of canceled surgeries
Lurie stopped surgeries after President Trump issued an executive order to cut federal funding despite judges blocking the order. Some families worry other gender-affirming care also will cease. By Kristen Schorsch Feb 21, 2025, 1:00pm CST He’s been on this journey for four years. Once a week, the 17-year-old transgender boy injects testosterone into his…
Indiana is one of 17 states suing over a federal law that protects students with disabilities
Dylan Peers McCoy Feb 17, 2025 Indiana is one of several conservative states asking a Texas court to declare unconstitutional a 52-year-old federal law that offers crucial protection for people with disabilities, including students. Conservative attorneys general in 17 states filed a lawsuit in September that they say aims to reverse a Biden-era regulation from the U.S.…
RFK Jr.’s history of medical misinformation raises concerns over HHS nomination
Keesha Middlemass February 6, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated by President Trump to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). On February 4, Kennedy passed a critical hurdle in a party-line vote, and his nomination was sent to the full Senate. During his confirmation hearings, senators revisited…
Florida Removes 1.3m People From Health Care Plan
Published Feb 09, 2025 at 5:00 AM EST By Hugh Cameron To watch video report, Click Here. Over one million Floridians have had their health insurance revoked as a result of a nationwide disenrollment from coverage that was previously safeguarded as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrolment in Florida has fallen from…
Republican states claim zero abortions. A red state doctor calls that ‘ludicrous’
States reported a sharp decline in abortions after Roe v. Wade was overruled. By Sarah Varney February 13, 2025, 2:51 PM In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In South Dakota, too, official records show…
Missouri prison nursery opens to bipartisan fanfare with goal of keeping mothers with babies
‘This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their children, and then their children’s children,’ said one caregiver in the prison nursery By: Anna Spoerre – February 3, 2025 5:55 am VANDALIA — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while…
Mental health disparities seen among sexual, gender minority populations
by Lori Solomon Feb 4, 2025 There are significant mental health disparities between sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations and cisgender heterosexual populations (non-SGM), according to a study published online Jan. 29 in JAMA Network Open. Junjie Anderson Lu, M.D., from Stanford University in California, and colleagues explored mental health disparities between SGM and non-SGM populations…