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Idaho’s OB-GYN Exodus Throws Women in Rural Towns Into a Care Void ( kffhealthnews.org )

Republicans Are Downplaying Abortion, but It Keeps Coming Up ( kffhealthnews.org )

Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned ( kffhealthnews.org )

Medicaid for Millions in America Hinges on Deloitte-Run Systems Plagued by Errors ( kffhealthnews.org )

California Leaders Tussle With Health Industry Over Billions of New Dollars for Medi-Cal ( kffhealthnews.org )

Older Women Are Different Than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied. ( kffhealthnews.org )

Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals ( kffhealthnews.org )

Heat Rules for California Workers Would Also Help Keep Schoolchildren Cool ( kffhealthnews.org )

He Fell Ill on a Cruise. Before He Boarded the Rescue Boat, They Handed Him the Bill. ( kffhealthnews.org )

Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments ( kffhealthnews.org )

Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. ( kffhealthnews.org )

Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions ( kffhealthnews.org )

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Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish ( kffhealthnews.org )

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Biden Administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them ( kffhealthnews.org )

The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so....

FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries ( kffhealthnews.org )

A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced Monday....

As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US ( kffhealthnews.org )

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Ten doctors on FDA panel reviewing Abbott heart device had financial ties with company ( kffhealthnews.org )

When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted research it had funded — information readily available in a federal database....

More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System ( kffhealthnews.org )

First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system....

After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl ( kffhealthnews.org )

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As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back ( kffhealthnews.org )

Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony....

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health ( kffhealthnews.org )

Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because of a law Tennessee passed last year that requires the direct consent of birth parents or legal guardians...

Whistleblower accuses Aledade, largest US independent primary care network, of Medicare fraud ( kffhealthnews.org )

A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using billing software “rigged” to make patients appear sicker than they were....

Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States ( kffhealthnews.org )

Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth....