Idaho considers a ban on using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care
Idaho lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including for state employees using work health insurance and for adults covered by Medicaid (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
State policies around this recovery process vary widely. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country
About 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine and more than 4 million require food aid (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds
Rural emergency hospitals are starting to gain a small foothold in the United States (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
What makes people happy? California lawmakers want to find out
A California lawmaker is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Bernie Sanders wants the US to adopt a 32-hour workweek. Could workers and companies benefit?
The 40-hour workweek has been standard in the U.S. for more than eight decades (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Arizona legislation to better regulate rehab programs targeted by Medicaid scams is moving forward
A Navajo state senator in Arizona says she's hoping for final approval of her bill to tighten regulations for rehab facilities amid widespread fraud that has bilked hundreds of millions in Medicaid dollars (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Judge mulls third contempt case against Arizona for failing to improve prison health care
A federal judge presiding over a lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is considering whether to launch a third contempt-of-court proceeding against the state for failing to improve prisoner care (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
A new front opens over South Dakota ballot initiatives: withdrawing signatures from petitions
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed a bill allowing signers of ballot initiative petitions to revoke their signatures (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Marriages in the US are back to pre-pandemic levels, CDC says
U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Kenyan doctors strike nationwide. Patients left unattended or turned away at public hospitals
Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Republic of Congo reports its first mpox virus cases, in several regions
The Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in ... (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Kansas is close to banning gender-affirming care for minors as GOP leaders seek the last vote
Republican legislators are close to banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors in Kansas over the Democratic governor’s expected veto (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
What is the breast cancer risk calculator recommended by Olivia Munn?
Olivia Munn's breast cancer diagnosis is drawing attention to a frequently used breast cancer risk calculator (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news