Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain North Carolina Medicaid recipients can begin receiving over-the-counter birth control pills at no cost this week through hundreds of participating pharmacies. The oral conceptive Opill will…
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Nurse practitioners can ease NZ’s health care pressures—why is the role not better recognized or funded?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New Zealand’s health system is grappling with a severe workforce shortage. Media reports frequently highlight individuals and families being unable to access timely health care, exacerbated…
Oregon senator proposes criminal charges and fines for rogue Obamacare agents
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Health insurance agents who fraudulently enroll consumers in Affordable Care Act health plans could be subject to criminal charges—and civil penalties of $10,000 to $200,000—under legislation…
‘State of health care for women is in a fragile place’—Florida women are dying from preventable causes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy complications and mental health conditions, according to a new national scorecard…
Single women in Australian aged care need more funding as new data show widows living longer
Temporal plots of average lengths of stay at an aged care across various covariates: uncensored data over 2008–2018. a Year. b Sex. c Age. d State. e Preferred language. f…
New figures reveal more Americans struggling to afford health care
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The percentage of Americans who can afford and access prescription drugs and quality health care stands at a new low of 55%, a six-point decline since…
Study shows AI tool successfully responds to patient questions in electronic health record
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As part of a nationwide trend, many more of NYU Langone Health’s patients during the pandemic started using electronic health record tools to ask their doctors…
Tax on antibiotics could help tackle threat of drug resistance, says study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance in humans, according to a new study by the University of East…
Insurance coverage disruptions, challenges accessing care common amid Medicaid unwinding
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a survey of low-income adults across Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas, one in eight respondents who were enrolled in Medicaid at some point since March…
Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel’s medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was…
