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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…
Cleveland doctor changing narrative on Black health outcomes
According to KFF, federal US policies dating back to the 1800s have influenced some of the challenges, including access to care, life expectancy and a lack of diversity in the health care workforce. By: Tiffany Tarpley Posted 6:05 AM, Feb 04, 2025 To watch video report, Click Here. BEACHWOOD, Ohio — The health disparities that exist today…
New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order
Feb 3, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In a letter, James,…
Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
by Mary Hudetz and Hannah Bassett Jan. 27, 2025, 7 a.m. EST Reporting Highlights At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions. The deaths, almost all from drug and…
Hundreds of thousands of Virginians could lose insurance coverage if Medicaid expansion is rolled back
Since the November election, Republican leaders at the federal level have shown themselves to be open to making cuts to Medicaid. by Emily Schabacker and Elizabeth Beyer January 27, 2025 Denise Smith sat with her legs crossed on a blanket-covered sofa in her Rocky Gap home, reflecting on a life shaped by hard work and financial struggle. The…