Sixty-one percent of healthcare organizations say they've suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the past year, and the vast majority say these IT incidents hurt them financially, according to a study by cybersecurity vendor Netwrix.

Anti-Semitic messages spotted around Jacksonville this weekend.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to amend its constitution to explicitly declare that affordable health care is a fundamental human right.

For Diwali, Kamala Harris held a Friday reception for the festival at her residence in Washington and then attended a White House celebration on Monday with the Bidens

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty on Monday in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of false robocalls in Ohio that told people they could be arrested or be forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail.

People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are.

A huge portion of the GOP’s candidates in crucial House seats hold extreme and unpopular positions, according to a new analysis.

Albertsons and Kroger say their merger would benefit consumers. The history of mergers, in the grocery business and elsewhere, offers cause for skepticism.

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.

Over half of adolescents and young adults don't receive prompt follow-up care after being hospitalized or visiting the emergency room for a mental health crisis, new research shows.

This summer, lawmakers missed a big chance to lower the cost of prescription medicine.

“He Gets Us,” an effort to attract skeptics and cultural Christians, launches nationally this month. But Christians still have questions about how the church markets faith.

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.

The president asked for a review of marijuana’s place in the Controlled Substances Act, but hasn’t said it should be removed altogether.

More than 40% of working-age adults are inadequately insured, a survey found.

Pathogens in soil are a danger to firefighters, but smoke may transport spores that cause valley fever and other infections into cities too.

The typical cost in an emergency setting for the test ranges between $600 and $700, according to the California lawsuit.

Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that blocks funding to prevent gender transition services for minors at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health Tuesday afternoon.

In a look into gender inequity, researchers found that only 3% of the highest paid physicians at leading medical supply companies were women.

Disney is giving kids with special needs a taste of their magic and "happy ever after" as they create new adaptive costumes, including hospital outfits for these little ones.

Clients of transgender health care clinics report canceled programming and slow-downs in communications with physicians.

Republicans and the far right are coming for more than abortion rights. That shouldn't just worry Democrats come Election Day.

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People of color -- especially Black and Hispanic people -- were less likely to receive Paxlovid and other Covid-19 treatments, according to a study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A pandemic-era rise in early puberty may help physicians to better understand its causes.

Ohio has funneled nearly $14 million in taxpayer funds to the center and others like it over the last decade, according to government records -- even as state leaders have cut funding that previously went to Planned Parenthood.

Less than 5% of patients who have their opioid treatment managed in the setting of a pain clinic test positive for illicit drugs, suggesting that close monitoring of this patient population is worthwhile.

The study found that if certain adults received medically-tailored meals, about 1.6 million hospitalizations would have been avoided, resulting in $38.7 billion saved in healthcare expenditures. Programs to provide these meals would have cost $24.8 billion, leading to $13.6 billion in net savings, according to the report.

There are numerous health inequities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). They experience lower rates of preventive screening; higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease; lower life expectancy; and higher rates of pregnancy complications. If that’s not enough, they have been at nearly six times greater risk of dying from COVID-19.

What is driving these disparities? There are a number of contributing factors, including unconscious bias against people with disabilities, physical access barriers, and inequities due to unmet social determinants of health, to name a few. But there is one area where health care policy makers and leaders can have an immediate impact for the 10 to 16 million people with IDD in the US. That is: by educating the health care workforce to meet the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy. But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like

Many have never heard of a pharmacy benefit manager, mega-profitable companies that control what consumers pay for prescription drugs. The FTC’s new probe needs to go far to change the status quo.

Across finance, tech, and health care, clear winners of hybrid work have emerged, according to expert Nick Bloom. Here’s what they’re doing right.

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...

Improving cyber resilience from disinformation requires, most of all, awareness of the intersection of these threats.

Photo: Local educators tour the Prince Metal Stampings facility in Gadsden during the EQWIP Industry Tour Day on October 10. (Courtesy of East Alabama Works) 10-13-2022 By Emma Kirkemier, News Editor On October 10, about 350 local educators piled into buses to tour some of the area’s prominent industry sites during the Etowah Qualified Workforce … EQWIP educators tour local business and industry sites Read More »

Researchers at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente identified 17 conditions most frequently associated with long COVID-19 in a study published Oct. 12 in Nature Medicine. The study is among the first to account for preexisting conditions when defining such symptoms. 

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the same tools that healthcare providers use to operate and maintain secure IT systems, HHS warned in a recent report. Providers can protect themselves by having a firm grasp of what their IT environment looks like, as this may help them spot any suspicious security tool commands.

A study reveals disparities across multiple dimensions.

Report from New York Times says most large insurers in the program have been accused of fraud

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.

At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis released Thursday. The number of clinics providing abortions in the 15 states dropped from 79 before the June 24 decision to 13 as of Oct.

Story at a glance Members of Congress on Monday voiced their support for proposed changes to a section of the Affordable Care Act that would strengthen protections for transgender people seeking gender-affirming health care. The proposed changes, announced by the Health Department in July, would broaden the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation…

Many physicians report being ill-equipped to treat people with physical and cognitive disabilities, and some say they try to avoid doing so, a new study has found.

Vague wording of the emergency exception in the state’s abortion ban is causing some doctors to delay miscarriage care, raising risk of serious complications.

Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, according to a new study.

Atrium Health and Novant Health Inc. are pushing back hard against accusations by state Treasurer Dale Folwell that they are playing “a shell game” with their Medicare data.

There's a wellbeing crisis building, and it's HR's job to help them adapt to new work culture

A story NBC5 Responds first covered in 2020 comes full circle. A Chicago gay couple who alleged their insurer unfairly denied them fertility coverage gets...

Some of the nation’s largest insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) impose coverage exclusions and other restrictions on birth control products, contrary to an Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement, according to a House investigation. Under the ACA, health plans must cover Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive products without cost-sharing. But a staff report from the…

Five weeks of radiation therapy is just as effective as eight weeks of radiation treatment for men with high-risk prostate cancer, according to new research presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.

Top Tennessee Republicans are vowing they'll push to enact some of the strictest anti-transgender policies in the United States

Centene, a Medicaid administrator, sent $84,000 after the veto.

Chemical hair-straightening products may be putting women, especially Black women, at greater risk of uterine cancer, a National Institutes of Health study says.

A growing army of community-based distributors is reaching pregnant women through word of mouth and social media — and supplying pills for free.

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.

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.

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.

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The Supreme Court will decide whether California’s law violates the Constitution, with possible far-reaching consequences.

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Catholic health systems now control 1 in 7 beds across the country. That means greater limits on reproductive care, from abortion to birth control.

Hospital said it will pause procedures on minors while noting it has not performed genital surgeries

Survivors of sexual violence are charged nearly $4,000 in medical bills, on average, after seeking emergency care following an assault, according to a new study.

Story at a glance Leading medical organizations are asking the Department of Justice to investigate a string of recent online attacks against hospitals that provide gender-affirming health care to transgender minors. Right-wing commentators and social media users have accused children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming care of abusing children. Research has shown that access to gender-affirming…

The condition - which is mild for most but can cause a recurrent heart palpitation in rare cases - was most common after the second dose, researchers at Kaiser Permanente found.

Metro Council will consider removing provisions referencing abortion access from a $500,000 grant proposal for Planned Parenthood.