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June, 2023



MONDAY, June 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When a child unintentionally shoots and kills another child in the United States, they've likely been playing around with an unlocked, loaded gun, new research reveals.Analyzing a decade’s worth of data, researchers also found that 4 out of 10 such gun death...


A prominent abortion-rights group rolled out the endorsements ahead of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade — which had established a constitutional right to have an abortion — on Saturday. The…


It's time for patients to be the priority


The head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is aiming to present President Joe Biden with a federal cannabis scheduling decision “this year” as agencies work “as quickly as we can” to complete an administrative review, Secretary Xavier Becerra told Marijuana Moment during a press briefing in Sacramento on Thursday. While […]

In a new report, Human Rights Watch urges stronger federal and state action to hold hospitals to account for a medical debt crisis that now burdens more than 100 million Americans


The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that a ballot measure at the center of an abortion fight in the state needed to be partially rewritten ahead of an August election, but also ruled against Democratic litigants on some of their key requests. Ohioans will be heading to the polls Aug. 8 to weigh in on…

On the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which straddles the border between North and South Dakota, people line up at 6 a.m. in the freezing winter, hoping to get one of just four dental appointments. “If you don’t get those four, you’re out, you don’t get it,” said Janet Alkire, chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux…


The sheriff’s office in Bexar County, Texas, has filed a criminal case with the county’s district attorney over a 2022 incident in which 49 migrants were flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., the office said. “The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has officially filed a completed criminal case with the Bexar County District Attorney’s…

The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.

"Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) will receive $3 million in federal funding to create new and strengthen existing mobile crisis response teams." These "teams will be led by nonprofit RI International and will respond to mental health and substance use crises in high-need areas in coordination with local law enforcement, according to a Montgomery County ADAMHS press release." The funds "from SAMHSA will allow the Mobile Crisis Response Team to grow, according to the release."

A prominent U.S. lawsuit to ban the abortion pill mifepristone has focused on the drug's safety and approval process. But the outcome may ultimately rest on a different issue: whether Ingrid Skop, an anti-abortion doctor in Texas, and other physicians behind the lawsuit can justify suing in the first place.







single-handedly gutted abortion access in the South. And now she’s lying about her own abortion.


New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed an executive order to protect access to gender-affirming care.

LANSING — Michigan Democrats are poised to codify the federal health care law into state law, a step that would lock coverage requirements and protections in place in case all or parts of the Affordable Care Act are struck down by courts, changed by Congress or weakened by a future president.
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The angst at Saticoy Elementary School has ratcheted up after parents created an Instagram account protesting the school's upcoming Pride month assembly.


Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday



Investigation reveals Allina Health is not the only health system to deny non-emergency care to patients with medical debt. Other big systems named.



Ron DeSantis may hold the answer to that question.


The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday to broaden the requirements for independent-contractor classification, which could allow millions of new workers to organize, form unions and strike.






Argentina will no longer require a prescription to obtain emergency contraception, commonly known as the 'morning after pill', the government said on Wednesday, broadening reproductive rights in the traditionally conservative South American country.