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El tipo de alimentación está vinculado a tasas más altas de preeclampsia en latinas
Para las latinas embarazadas, la elección de los alimentos podría reducir el riesgo de preeclampsia, un tipo especialmente peligroso de hipertensión. Un nuevo estudio muestra que es más probable que una dieta basada en…
Rising Complaints of Unauthorized Obamacare Plan-Switching and Sign-Ups Trigger Concern
Federal and state regulators aren’t doing enough to stop the growing problem of rogue health insurance brokers making unauthorized policy switches for Affordable Care Act policyholders, say consumers, agents, nonprofit enrollee…
Ten Doctors on FDA Panel Reviewing Abbott Heart Device Had Financial Ties With Company
When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted research it had funded —…
Journalists Assess the Risks of Bird Flu and the Impacts of Medicaid ‘Unwinding’
KFF Health News senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed bird flu on CBS News’ “CBS Mornings” on April 2.
Click here to watch Gounder on “CBS Mornings”
El Tímpano reporter Jasmine Aguilera,…
As Republicans Wrestle With IVF, the Biden Administration Expands Benefits
While Republican lawmakers try to walk a fine line on in vitro fertilization — expressing support for the popular procedure, even as some of their supporters argue life begins at conception — the federal government expanded…
Biden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare Enrollees
Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact
Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries “was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month.”
President Joe Biden, in a March 22 speech
The cost of insulin in the United States has…
More Kids Are Dying of Drug Overdoses. Could Pediatricians Do More to Help?
A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
After he was weighed, he headed for an exam room decorated with decals of planets and cartoon…
The Horrors of TMJ: Chronic Pain, Metal Jaws, and Futile Treatments
A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw.
Another woman in California, desperate for relief, used a screwdriver to lengthen her jawbone daily, turning screws that protruded from…
Unauthorized Sign-Ups Cast Shadow on Obamacare’s Record Enrollment
The Biden administration faces what looks like a growing problem for the federal Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchange: disreputable insurance brokers enrolling people who don’t need coverage or switching them to new plans…
The GOP Keeps Pushing Medicaid Work Requirements, Despite Setbacks
Work requirements in Medicaid expansion programs are back on the agenda in many statehouses — despite their lackluster track record.
In Mississippi, the idea has momentum from GOP lawmakers advancing legislation to expand…