The Affordable Care Act put in place a package of benefits that health insurance plans must cover. Critics contend this mandate has jacked up premiums. Evidence supporting that claim is mixed…Read MoreContinue Reading
James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Reuters The government’s vaccine advisors have been asked to look into whether teenagers should be given the MenB jab This week has shown how utterly devastating and shocking meningitis can be. One day you can be incredibly fit and healthy with the world atContinue Reading
More research is starting to show that women can benefit from lifting weights, perhaps even more than men, Read MoreContinue Reading
Twenty-one-year-old Annabelle Mackay has spoken to the BBC about her experience of surviving a meningitis infection. The University of Kent law student believes she may have contracted it on 5 March at Club Chemistry, or possibly on an evening before this when she was out at a different venue. SoContinue Reading
Jehovah’s Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care, Read MoreContinue Reading
A 31-year-old Georgia woman has charged with murder by police who say she took pills to induce an abortion, Read MoreContinue Reading
The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators can help diagnose and treat mental illness…Read MoreContinue Reading
A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people, Read MoreContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to pay a total of up to $100 million to settle Justice Department allegations of fraudulent billing for health conditions that were exaggerated or didn’tContinue Reading
At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the highly secretive process of traditional circumcision to “become a man.”, Read MoreContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Luigi Mangione, the person charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly had spinal surgery for chronic back pain caused by spondylolisthesis. Spondylolisthesis occurs when a vertebra slips forward out of place onto the vertebra below, explained Jessica Stark, MD, spine surgeon atContinue Reading
Jenny Rees Wales health correspondent Getty Images The total number of patients waiting has now fallen for eight months in a row Hospital waiting lists in Wales have seen a record drop as the latest figures indicate the total number of patients waiting has now fallen for eight months inContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Employees at HHS and its various sub-agencies are struggling to figure out how to implement President Traitor 47’s executive order requiring them to report in-person to their work sites full-time, and how the changes will affect them. An Early Executive Order The in-person workContinue Reading