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The CDC is recommending fewer childhood vaccines, although the ones it has jettisoned from the recommended schedule have successfully battled serious illness for years. Experts warn that if vaccine uptake falls, millions could be hospitalized ā or worse ā as a result of preventable diseases.
Millions of people gained health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, reducing pressure on counties in states that fund care for the uninsured. With federal policies expected to reverse that trend, county officials wonder how they will fill the gap ā and who will pay for it.
Abortion bans like Iowaās have put OB-GYNs under increasing strain and surveillance, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and other pregnancy problems. As many rural areas face worsening maternity care deserts, some physicians fear these laws could drive much-needed doctors out of state and dissuade others from moving in and establishing a practice.
While federal officials say they are cracking down on misleading drug ads, cosmetic surgery remains a ābuyer bewareā market.
As the crowdsourced investigative series from Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News approaches its eighth anniversary, āBill of the Monthā offers its top takeaways of 2025 to help patients manage, decipher, and even fight their medical bills.
Some patients who had liposuction or other surgeries later required emergency hospital care ā and some died, court records show.
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Homemade hot sauce sent a Colorado man to the emergency room with what he called āthe worst pain of my life.ā But stomach cramps were only the beginning. Two years later, the bill came.
Genesis HealthCareās controlling investor, Joel Landau, had sought to rebuy the nursing homes while gaining protection from settlement payments over allegations of poor care. A judge rejected the proposal and ordered a new auction. A Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News investigation found Genesis settled hundreds of lawsuits but didnāt pay them out fully.
Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregonās coastline planned to add a tsunami shelter, counting on a FEMA grant. After the Trump administration cut the funding, hospital officials are building anyway, saying waiting is too risky. A judge ruled Dec. 11 that the administration unlawfully ended the program without congressional approval.
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As millions face skyrocketing health insurance premiums, the āAn Arm and a Legā team navigates their own limited options.
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Investigators from the Government Accountability Office were able to register nearly 20 fake ACA enrollments in a probe of healthcare.gov. The federal government paid subsidies to insurers for some of the fake customers.
Genesis HealthCareās bankruptcy case in Dallas will allow the nursing home chain to avoid paying millions of dollars it promised for residents who were injured or died while in its care. Families say bankruptcy nullifies one of the main ways to hold nursing home owners accountable for poor care.
On āWhat the Health? From Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News,ā distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and podcast host Julie Rovner sat down with Avik Roy, a GOP health policy adviser, to talk about how health care has evolved as a Republican Party issue.
Regulations meant to prevent unfettered health care expansion are withholding needed hospital beds in a rural part of North Carolina. Here, as in communities around the country, some officials and health care providers are contesting such ācertificate of needā laws.
A session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the CDC, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described as a ācesspool of corruption.ā His crew voted to end a 34-year recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B.
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans canāt use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.
Senate Democrats were promised a vote by mid-December on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Republicans still canāt decide whether they want to put forward their own alternative or what that might include. Meanwhile, the CDC and FDA are roiled by debates over vaccines. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also, Rovner interviews Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā Aneri Pattani about her project tracking opioid settlement payments.
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