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USCIS Extends Green Card Validity Extension to 36 Months for Green Card Renewals
09/18/2024 Effective Sept. 10, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services automatically extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) to 36 months for lawful permanent residents who file Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card. Lawful permanent residents who properly file Form I-90 to renew an expiring or expired Green…
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‘Just lose weight’: Women with PCOS are going untreated due to ‘weight-centric health care’
70% of women affected by PCOS remain undiagnosed worldwide as women report experiencing delayed diagnosis and undertreatment due to “weight-centric healthcare.” Alyssa Goldberg September 10, 2024 As a teenager, Pamela Everland suffered from irregular and excessively heavy periods that lasted for six to eight weeks. At 19-years-old, a gynecologist finally placed her on birth control to regulate her periods,…
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Squeezed by inflation and politics, a Texas food bank gets creative to keep people fed
KERA | By Jayme Lozano Carver | The Texas Tribune Published August 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM CDT LUBBOCK — Just a short walk behind the South Plains Food Bank lies an uncommon sight in the parched region — thousands of lush trees covered in apples, persimmons and other fresh fruit. The 15-acre orchard has its roots…
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New report predicts health care worker shortages in Colorado, with less populated areas suffering more
By John Daley Sep. 10, 2024, 4:00 am If you’re a nurse practitioner or some other health care occupation, you can expect to be in high demand in Colorado and many other states in the coming years. That’s according to a new report from Mercer, a global consulting firm, which examines labor markets around the U.S. in a…
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Maternity care deserts are growing
Caitlin Owens September 11, 2024 Half of U.S. counties don’t have a hospital that provides obstetric care and more than a third lack a single obstetric clinician, according to a new report by March of Dimes. Why it matters: Access to care is getting worse even as America’s maternal mortality rate is more than double that of some other high-income…
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White House announces rule that would cut insurance red tape over mental health and substance use disorder care
By Carma Hassan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Updated 3:43 PM EDT, Mon September 9, 2024 The Biden administration announced a final rule on Monday meant to expand access and lower costs for care for mental health and substance use disorders. Most provisions in the rule will apply to group health plans and health insurance issuers for plan years starting…
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More Women Underwent Surgical Sterilization After Fall of Roe v. Wade
By HealthDay Sept. 11, 2024, at 11:00 a.m By Ernie Mundell As fears of the consequences of an unintended pregnancy rose after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, rates of surgical sterilization rose in those states most affected by the decision, new research shows. Rates of tubal sterilization — tying, cutting or removing the fallopian…
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How Columbia’s Gentrification Impacts Reproductive Justice in West Harlem
SEP 4, 2024, 9:24AM SURINA VENKAT The gap in access to reproductive health care caused by the closing of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital has not yet been filled in West Harlem. In 1990, at a protest against the move of reproductive care units from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in West Harlem to midtown New York that drew…
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New Mexico starts building an abortion clinic to serve neighboring states, train medical students
BY MORGAN LEE Updated 7:33 PM CDT, September 5, 2024 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle…
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