House Republicans have proposed adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program serving tens of millions of low-income Americans. Their plan, unveiled Sunday, would, with a few exceptions, strip coverage from childless adults who …
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Florida Just Banned Fluoride From Public Water. Here’s What to Know.
Medical experts have warned that ending fluoridation will have negative consequences for oral health.
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Malcolm Potts, Irreverent Evangelist for Contraception, Dies at 90
He helped develop the device most often used for surgical abortions. He also spent more than half a century promoting women’s reproductive health in developing countries.
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Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs
Students at Wyoming East High School in West Virginia’s coal country had different reasons for joining Raze, a state program meant to raise awareness about the health risks of tobacco and e-cigarettes. Cayden Oliver, 17, grew up around generations of …
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Kennedy to Defend H.H.S. Overhaul as Democrats Denounce ‘War on Science’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to testify before lawmakers for the first time as health secretary on Wednesday, where he will also confront calls from a key Republican to reassure Americans about his agenda.
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An L.A. Doctor’s House Burned. Now He Treats the Fires’ Effects in Neighbors.
A new clinic, opened by a pulmonologist who lost his home in the Palisades blaze, is addressing the health issues developing among people exposed to the fires.
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Karma Comes for Kennedy
Like the divine intelligence of the universe, the list of reasons that the wellness influencer Casey Means should not be surgeon general is vast. For one thing, she never completed her medical residency. She’s said that she dropped out of her program …
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Josh Hawley: Don’t Cut Medicaid
Polls show Democrats down in the dumps at their lowest approval level in decades, but we Republicans are having an identity crisis of our own, and you can see it in the tug of war over President Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.” The nub of the …
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Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.
Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding.
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