The office is investigating Allina Health's debt collection practices and its now-suspended policy of denying non-emergency care to delinquent patients.

The state now joins about 20 others that have passed laws blocking minors from having access to gender-transition care.

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It’s been more than two years since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared racism a public health threat, and a new study gives a stark look at just how pervasive racial and ethnic disparities are in the United States.

Social Security benefits, already ripe for fraud, may fall prey to even more sophisticated schemes as A.I. tools advance.

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Autistic people’s capacity to determine our own fates is only as good as the choices that are given to us by policy decisions and culture.

Legislators in states with some of the strictest abortion bans are pouring millions into pregnancy resource centers, painting them as solutions to poor birth outcomes and the lack of access to adequate prenatal and postpartum care. But while Republican lawmakers have increasingly positioned pregnancy resource centers as a backstop for maternal health care, critics say those taxpayer dollars should be used to shore up more comprehensive medical and social services.

Heather Alberda found her calling by speaking bluntly about sex in conservative Ottawa County. Her career was no match for the nation’s culture wars.

A work of art created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, a U.S. court in Washington, D.C., has ruled.

Public health advocates say Georgia appears to be doing little to promote its new Medicaid plan or enroll people in it.

Texas families and health care providers sued the state over Senate Bill 14, which restricts transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care. The groups are requesting an injunction from a state district court judge before the law goes into effect on Sept. 1.

Texas has not claimed authority to erect barriers on Mexico's side of the river. This survey complicates its defense of anti-migrant measures.

Around half of Native American health care facilities in Oklahoma don’t provide emergency contraception, a Medill News Service investigation found.

A group founded by the conservative activist instrumental in the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision rejecting affirmative action in collegiate admissions on Wednesday sued an Atlanta-based venture capital fund that supports Black women who own small businesses, accusing it of unlawful racial discrimination.

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.

11 of the bottom 12 states in WalletHub study are in the South

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An analysis of data from more than 30,000 people with type 2 diabetes provides insight into the long-term use of metformin and risk of vitamin B12 deficiency.

Judge James Ho of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals claimed mifepristone inflicts 'aesthetic injury' on doctors looking inside women's bodies.

The reluctance to talk about suicide has many implications. Stigma also affects everything from how people grieve to how people help prevent it.

Transgender rights are taking center stage in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly plans votes Wednesday seeking to override the governor’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming health care for minors.

These efforts highlight the falsity, if not the cynicism, of the Dobbs majority’s promise that the question would be returned to the democratic process.

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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.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order targeting transgender rights in Oklahoma.

$6.5 million biological nitrate reduction plant in Cold Spring, Minn., is state's first.

A Democratic senator has refiled a bill that’s meant to lay the groundwork for federal marijuana legalization. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced the legislation—titled the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult-Use Regulated Environment Act (PREPARE) Act—on Thursday. The incremental reform would direct the attorney general to create a commission charged with making recommendations on […]