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Fake Therapist Fooled Hundreds Online Until She Died, State Records Say ( kffhealthnews.org )

Mississippi Lacks Black Doctors, Even as Lawmakers Increasingly Target Diversity Programs ( kffhealthnews.org )

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 )

Experts: US hospitals prone to cyberattacks like one that hurt patient care at Ascension ( kffhealthnews.org )

In the wake of a debilitating cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Marvin Ruckle, a nurse at an Ascension hospital in Wichita, Kansas, said he had a frightening experience: He nearly gave a baby “the wrong dose of narcotic” because of confusing paperwork....

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....

Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed ( kffhealthnews.org )

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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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Arkansas Led the Nation in Measuring Obesity in Kids. Did It Help? ( kffhealthnews.org )

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City-country mortality gap widens amid persistent holes in rural health care access ( kffhealthnews.org )

In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health experts worried....

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....

Dietary choices are linked to higher rates of preeclampsia among Latinas ( kffhealthnews.org )

For pregnant Latinas, food choices could reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous type of high blood pressure, and a diet based on cultural food preferences, rather than on U.S. government benchmarks, is more likely to help ward off the illness, a new study shows....