North Carolina abortion providers on Monday asked a state court to allow health professionals other than physicians to provide medication abortions, as clinics struggle to accommodate an influx of abortion patients from across the U.S. South.
Two Texas doctors can pursue their lawsuit over the Biden administration's announcement last year that federal law bans discrimination in healthcare against transgender people on behalf of a class of all healthcare providers in the U.S., a federal judge has ruled.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top Indiana lawyer on Friday questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state's abortion ban violates their religious freedoms.
A new study conducted by Northwestern Medicine and two other Chicago institutions shows that gender-affirming surgery for transgender and nonbinary adolescents and young adults improves quality of life and mental health. According to the first installment of the two-part study, published Sept. 26, individuals assigned female at birth who received top surgery reported statistically significant...
This summer, lawmakers missed a big chance to lower the cost of prescription medicine.
Improving cyber resilience from disinformation requires, most of all, awareness of the intersection of these threats.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women who are not pregnant have been denied drugs because they could harm hypothetical pregnancies.
The human body mass index — a simple mathematical equation — is tied to a measure of obesity invented almost 200 years ago. On the downside, it can stand between patients and treatment for weight issues. It particularly mismeasures Black women and Asians.
Judge Robert Hinkle denied a preliminary injunction request from a coalition of transgender rights groups seeking to stop the rule.
After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, an obstetrician who works at a hospital in the Northeast thought she could make a difference by publicly describing what she was seeing, by telling the stories of the patients she saw suffering in the aftermath of the court's historic court ruling.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether California’s law violates the Constitution, with possible far-reaching consequences.
The president asked for a review of marijuana’s place in the Controlled Substances Act, but hasn’t said it should be removed altogether.
Healthcare
A study reveals disparities across multiple dimensions.
More than 40% of working-age adults are inadequately insured, a survey found.
Catholic health systems now control 1 in 7 beds across the country. That means greater limits on reproductive care, from abortion to birth control.
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
Hospital said it will pause procedures on minors while noting it has not performed genital surgeries