KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances…Read MoreContinue Reading
Florida is suing three major medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, accusing them of pushing misinformation about gender-affirming care to drive demand for their members’ services., Read MoreContinue Reading
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it would remove the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women., Read MoreContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. This story is part of a series called “Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits.” It was produced in part through a grant from the NIHCM Foundation. Since she lost her job this summer as a bariatric surgeon, Lana Nelson, DO, has a phone messageContinue Reading
An infant botulism outbreak has sickened at least 39 babies across the U.S. and underscored the crucial role of a medication that treats the rare disease, Read MoreContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Public health officials are looking into reports of a small potential uptick in neurologic complications of influenza in children — particularly a rapidly progressing and dangerous condition called acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). Adrienne Randolph, MD, MSc, of Boston Children’s Hospital, said she reported aboutContinue Reading
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 can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums…Read MoreContinue Reading
Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent Getty Images The review looks at the worst-performing maternity and neonatal services Hungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England’s maternity services while staff receive death threats for working in some units, according to a new report. Baroness Amos, who is chairing aContinue Reading
Exercise doesn’t only matter when you’re young…Read MoreContinue Reading
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the first hematopoietic stem cell transplant therapy to treat patients with rare but severe aplastic anemia., Read MoreContinue Reading
A multidisciplinary medical team in Peru successfully managed an ectopic pregnancy in which a placenta adhered to the mother’s liver was delivered as a full-term baby after 40 weeks of gestation., Read MoreContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Thousands of employees of federal health agencies have been let go in a chaotic and slow-rolling The Traitor administration purge over the holiday weekend. While the total number of dismissed employees appears to be smaller than originally expected, the changes sowed confusion as someContinue Reading