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August 2, 2023

HHS Urged to Wrap Gender-Affirming Care Into Abortion Privacy Plan
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Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, and others are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to expand a proposal protecting reproductive health information from law enforcement to also shield information related to gender-affirming care.

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Reaches Settlement With Company Profiting Off Her Stolen Cells – More than 70 years later, Lacks' family is finally being financially compensated for her involuntary contributions to medicine.
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We're now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it's worse than we thought. Three compelling reports show just how damaging RTO mandates are turning out to be.
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‘We Can Be More Selective About Who We Treat’: UHS CFO’s Comments Spark Concerns About Cherry-Picking
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Last week, the CFO of Universal Health Services stated that the company chooses which patients to treat based on whose insurance plans offer the highest payments. The comments have sparked some media attention, but healthcare finance experts say the practice of cherry-picking patients is nothing new to the industry.

WA attorney general challenges Idaho’s abortion travel ban
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the state of Idaho at least temporarily from prosecuting doctors who refer patients out of state to get an abortion, finding that would violate a medical provider's right to free speech.
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