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Supreme Court Rules Businesses Can Discriminate Against Gay People – Rolling Stone

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Australia is allowing legal access to MDMA-assisted therapy, unexpectedly turning itself into a guinea pig ahead of potential FDA approval in the United States.

Court halts Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care, at least for now. A federal judge suggested Tennessee officials had failed to prove the law isn't unconstitutionally discriminatory.

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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.

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...

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Republicans Resurrect National Abortion Ban in Time for Dobbs Anniversary - Republicans seem to no longer care about the “states’ rights” argument.

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NARAL Pro-Choice America unveiled its first round of endorsements for the 2024 House elections, backing two dozen Democratic incumbents.

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…

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In case you were still wondering if he was anti-science or not: RFK Jr. Pledges to Gut Agencies That Regulate Vaccines and Order the DOJ to Investigate Medical Journals If He Becomes President

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Why Do We Tolerate Our Health Insurance Problem? An emergency room physician details how the US system of medical insurance is rigged to give profits to insurers instead of taking care of patients.

It's time for patients to be the priority

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As more states restrict gender-affirming care for transgender people, some are relocating to destinations where they can receive medical care.

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Feds Aim To Finish Cannabis Scheduling Review ‘This Year,’ Top Biden Official Says

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 […]

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International Rights Group Calls Out US for Allowing Hospitals to Push Millions Into Debt | KFF Health News

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

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As if you needed another reason to have a low opinion of MTG: 'I Don't Want My Staff Educated,' Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells CDC Boss In Exasperating Exchange. The far-right House member browbeat the CDC's Rochelle Walensky with falsehoods and wrong assumptions.

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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.

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White House wants Native American health care funding baked into law instead of being part of budget negotiations.

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…

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How GOP efforts to restrict trans rights take a page from the antiabortion playbook: As conservative lawmakers introduce a record number of anti-transgender bills, abortion and trans rights advocates see mirrored fights for bodily autonomy.

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A Texas sheriff’s office has recommended that a San Antonio-area district attorney file criminal charges following an investigation into the transportation in the fall of 49 asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, allegedly on direction from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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…

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Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. State Farm Stops Offering Insurance in California

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.

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Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) will receive a total of $3 million in federal funding to create new and strengthen existing mobile crisis response teams.

"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."

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US abortion pill access could hinge on whether doctors had right to sue | Reuters

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.

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Opioid medications might not work for back and neck pain, a small new study has found.

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Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

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Federal officials are beefing up enforcement of a key U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed the rights of people with disabilities to be supported in the community whenever possible.

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In post-Roe era, House Republicans begin quiet push for new restrictions on abortion access. In a flurry of little-noticed legislative action, GOP lawmakers are pushing abortion policy changes, trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated their fight to the nation’s highest court.

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Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors - The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.

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New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills to States With Bans - The measure is one of several recently enacted by states aiming to expand access to medication abortion for patients who live where it is outlawed.

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Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s

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Researchers have shown that omitting race and ethnicity as predictors in colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction models may be associated with racial and ethnic biases that contribute to health disparities and worsened patient outcomes

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Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law - At issue in the case was whether a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes is constitutional.

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N.C. Lawmaker Tricia Cotham Pretends She Never Got an Abortion After Switching Parties to Pass Abortion Ban

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

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Blackfeet decline meeting with national IHS director. Citing frustration and failed promises, the Blackfeet Tribal Council told IHS “Your visit would be hollow” and that travel funds “could be put to better use for Indian tribes.”

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New York City mayor signs executive order to protect access to gender-affirming care

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

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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.

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 Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls.

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To keep immigrants from fleeing, Florida GOP focus on immigration law loopholes.

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Years of rising operating profits and cash reserves did not translate to greater charity care across the nation’s nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs

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Teens will keep using YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and other apps if parents use scare tactics instead of acceptance. We’re having the wrong conversation around teen social media use, writes Ana Homayoun.

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The growing and widespread use of algorithms to make health care decisions for patients could be adding to racial bias against minorities, a new study has found.

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Transgender teacher's Pride flag burned at Saticoy Elementary (California), where protests have escalated

The angst at Saticoy Elementary School has ratcheted up after parents created an Instagram account protesting the school's upcoming Pride month assembly.

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Florida Hospitals Asking Patients About Immigration Status Spark Outrage- The controversial new legislation, which compels Florida hospitals to ask patients for their immigration status, comes into force this weekend.

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First locally-acquired U.S. malaria cases diagnosed in 20yrs found Florida and Texas

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

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Congressional Democrats on Monday reignited an effort to pass federal legislation outlawing the discredited practice of “conversion therapy,” which is a scientifically discredited practice that aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Abortion access groups who received a windfall of donations following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade one year ago say those emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off

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Federal judge strikes down Florida's ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatment

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Number of health systems allegedly denying care to indebted patients grows - Approximately "20 percent of nationwide hospitals in a random sample pursued similar policies of care denial," according to KFF Health News.

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

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A Low-Quality Education Could Mean Dementia Later - A study by Kaiser Permanente revealed that structural racism in the education system may be why the brain condition heavily affects Black people.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center gives trans patient medical records to Tennessee Attorney General; Though Tennessee has legal standing to seek the records, a LGBTQ advocacy organization says families feel their privacy has been violated by the move.

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Emojis in Clinical Text Messaging May Facilitate Team Communication

Essay: Republicans are trafficking migrants to California. Are we too tired to protest? When it comes to America's support for Black and brown safety and liberation, have we hit the floor? Or are we at risk of sinking further?

Ron DeSantis may hold the answer to that question.

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Ohio ban on transgender youth sports, gender-affirming heath care clears House panel

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The CDC plans to reduce funding for workers who fight sexually transmitted infections because of the recently passed debt ceiling deal.

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The National Labor Relations Board issued a new ruling Tuesday that makes it easier for Uber and Lyft drivers, construction workers, home health aides, and strippers to organize and join unions.

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.

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Britain Limits Use of Puberty-Blocking Drugs to Research Only - The change is part of a broader push in several countries to limit gender-related medical treatments for young people.

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Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits

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Judge rejects attempt to block new Washington state gun restrictions

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Antiabortion politicians have had a year to deliver on the ‘pro-life’ safety net they promised to help women who were forced to give birth and their kids. Guess what happened.

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Top Insurance CEOs Took Home $335 Million Last Year, Fueled by Stock Buybacks - Fresh outrage over the pay of insurance industry CEOs comes amid a renewed Medicare for All push in Congress.

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Former U.S. Secretaries of Health Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius argue that to address the nursing shortage crisis, we need to fix immigration.

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The Abortion Fight Has Voters Turning to Ballot Initiatives And Republicans are increasingly attempting to limit that direct-democracy option.

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Argentina will no longer require a prescription to obtain emergency contraception, commonly known as the 'morning after pill'

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.

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