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Medicaid enrollment drops linked to disrupted care for young people

Children and young adults with depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, asthma and epilepsy can get great relief from medications to control their symptoms, helping them stay in school or work and prepare for their futures.

3 May 2025

Medicaid rollbacks could deepen health inequities

A new analysis provides evidence that reductions in access to Medicaid could increase deaths and cause financial hardship to people currently covered under an expansion of Medicaid that was implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

2 May 2025

Study shows safe outcomes for PCI performed in ambulatory surgery centers

The first study evaluating Medicare patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) demonstrated good safety outcomes, such as mortality and adverse event rates at 30 days, compared to outpatient hospital departments, but were less likely to use certain technologies.

2 May 2025

Addressing the urgent health and environmental threat from endocrine disrupting chemicals

Taking place on 14 May 2025, in Copenhagen and online, the event will bring together leading European scientists, policymakers and civil society to address the urgent health and environmental threat from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

2 May 2025

Learning from every patient: New radiotherapy technique aims to protect the heart during lung cancer treatment

A new study presented at ESTRO 2025 introduces the RAPID-RT study, which uses an innovative rapid-learning approach to evaluate the impact of treatment modifications in radiotherapy.

2 May 2025

Five major advances in anal and rectal cancer treatment with radiotherapy: A new era of organ-preserving options

Rectal cancer is a type of bowel cancer that develops in the last several centimeters of the large intestine, just before the anus.

2 May 2025

Government watchdog expects Medicaid work requirement analysis by fall

The country's top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running the nation's only active Medicaid work requirement program, as Republican state and federal lawmakers consider similar requirements.

2 May 2025

Covered California pushes for better health care as federal spending cuts loom

Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind.

2 May 2025

VR-guided meditation helps hospital parents manage stress

Parenting in the hospital is stressful. Moms and dads naturally focus on their ill child, sometimes to the neglect of their own mental health.

2 May 2025

Virtual pulmonary rehabilitation proves to be safe and effective for COPD patients

Virtual pulmonary rehabilitation is a safe, effective alternative to traditional pulmonary rehabilitation programs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also require supplemental oxygen, according to a new report.

1 May 2025

New wearable health sensor aims to transform dementia care and prevent stillbirths

University of Surrey spin-out Z-PULSE Ltd has secured funding to fast-track the commercialization of its self-powered wearable health sensors, which aims to transform dementia care and could potentially prevent thousands of stillbirths each year.

1 May 2025

HHS and NIH announce the development of next-generation, universal vaccine platform

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A/H1N1 virus particles. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) today announced the development of the next-generation, universal vaccine platform, Generation Gold Standard, using a beta-propiolactone (BPL)-inactivated, whole-virus platform.

1 May 2025

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': 100 days of health policy upheaval

Members of Congress are back in Washington this week, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters.

1 May 2025

Federal cuts gut food banks as they face record demand

Food bank shortages caused by high demand and cuts to federal aid programs have some residents of a small community that straddles Idaho and Nevada growing their own food to get by.

1 May 2025

California’s primary care shortage persists despite ambitious moves to close gap

Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called "the salad bowl of the world."

1 May 2025

Psychotherapy gains ground in outpatient mental health care

Psychotherapy assumed a larger role in outpatient mental health care while psychiatric medication without psychotherapy became less common, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

1 May 2025

Virtual reality game using scents boosts cognitive function in older adults

As the global population ages, supporting older adults in maintaining their cognitive and memory functions has become a pressing concern.

30 Apr 2025

Urgent action needed to close gaps in global pandemic preparedness

The Global Virus Network (GVN) is highly concerned that the world is unprepared for the next pandemic and has not incorporated the lessons learned from COVID-19.

30 Apr 2025

Digital cognitive assessments may offer a feasible way to screen older adults for dementia

Many adults aged 65 and older never receive a cognitive check during regular primary care visits. This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a digital cognitive assessment for Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) screening into primary care.

30 Apr 2025

Loss of EU nurses after Brexit tied to 1,485 additional deaths annually

During the three years after the EU referendum poll, Brexit's impact on the NHS caused 1,485 additional deaths per year as a result of EU nurses leaving the UK following the referendum, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.

30 Apr 2025

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Medicaid enrollment drops linked to disrupted care for young people

Medicaid rollbacks could deepen health inequities

Study shows safe outcomes for PCI performed in ambulatory surgery centers

Addressing the urgent health and environmental threat from endocrine disrupting chemicals

Learning from every patient: New radiotherapy technique aims to protect the heart during lung cancer treatment

Five major advances in anal and rectal cancer treatment with radiotherapy: A new era of organ-preserving options

Government watchdog expects Medicaid work requirement analysis by fall

Covered California pushes for better health care as federal spending cuts loom

VR-guided meditation helps hospital parents manage stress

Virtual pulmonary rehabilitation proves to be safe and effective for COPD patients

New wearable health sensor aims to transform dementia care and prevent stillbirths

HHS and NIH announce the development of next-generation, universal vaccine platform

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': 100 days of health policy upheaval

Federal cuts gut food banks as they face record demand

California’s primary care shortage persists despite ambitious moves to close gap

Psychotherapy gains ground in outpatient mental health care

Virtual reality game using scents boosts cognitive function in older adults

Urgent action needed to close gaps in global pandemic preparedness

Digital cognitive assessments may offer a feasible way to screen older adults for dementia

Loss of EU nurses after Brexit tied to 1,485 additional deaths annually

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