Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children
An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

West Virginia Gov. Justice vetoes bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Mississippi Senate Republicans push Medicaid expansion 'lite' proposal that would cover fewer people
A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

West Virginia Gov. Justice breaks with GOP Legislature to veto bill rolling back school vaccine rule
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Steward Health Care strikes deal to sell its nationwide physician network to Optum
Financially embattled hospital operator Steward Health Care has struck a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, as it works to stabilize its finances (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Being HIV-positive will no longer automatically disqualify police candidates in Tennessee city
A Tennessee city has agreed to update its civil service policies so that having HIV will no longer automatically disqualify someone from serving as a police officer or first responder (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Rowers in England's university Boat Race warned over E.coli levels in the Thames
Jumping into London’s River Thames has been the customary celebration for members of the winning crew in the annual Boat Race between storied English universities Oxford and Cambridge (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

A Japanese supplement pill is recalled after two people died and more than 100 were hospitalized
Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat
Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Biden and Harris argue that Democrats will preserve health care and Republicans would take it away
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are promoting their health care agenda during an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Lawsuit says Ohio's gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution
Two families of transgender minors have filed a constitutional challenge to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming healthcare for youth under 18 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Cases settled: 2 ex-officials of veterans home where 76 died in the pandemic avoid jail time
Two former officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where at least 76 people died during the COVID-19 pandemic will avoid jail time in the case (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that's holding up contraception money for rape victims
The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault despite having a completed draft in hand (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit Americans’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have sweeping implications for how the federal government approves scores of medications (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Controversial military reproductive health care travel policy was used just 12 times in 7 months
The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if they or a family member have to go out of state for reproductive health care — including abortions — was only used 12 times from June to December of las... (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news