The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it was first declared. This comes as the World Health Organization announced last week that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency.
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The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it was first declared. This comes as the World Health Organization announced last week that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is investigating two hospitals that "did not offer necessary stabilizing care to an individual experiencing an emergency medical condition, in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)," according to a letter from US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
More than two dozen House Republicans who recently welcomed multi-million-dollar clean energy manufacturing investments in their districts voted Wednesday to repeal the tax incentives that stimulated those very same projects.
Later this spring, a little girl in California who has essentially no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for "bubble boy disease" thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of "Grey's Anatomy."
Proposed restrictions on gender-affirming care faced new hurdles in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee this week, as health care for transgender patients evolves into a hallmark issue for Republican-led states and GOP-controlled assemblies.
Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for "bubble boy disease" thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of "Grey's Anatomy."
Former President Donald Trump once backed raising the retirement age to 70 and called for privatizing Social Security which he called a "Ponzi scheme" -- two positions he has hammered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for supporting as a former member of Congress and congressional candidate.
House Republicans are using the debt ceiling standoff to advocate for one of their longstanding goals -- requiring more low-income Americans to work in order to receive government benefits, particularly food stamps and Medicaid.
Oklahoma's laws restricting abortions have created a confusing, contradictory environment that may have a chilling effect on health care, new research says.
For most of her life, Tammy La Barbera has been taking care of someone other than herself. First, it was her two children. Then, it was her brother and father, who both died after being diagnosed with cancer. Now, Tammy is taking care of her 90-year-old mother, Ada, who was diagnosed with dementia five years ago.
The fraught politics of tax season have been met by the White House with a perhaps surprising response: a welcoming embrace.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in the Rose Garden Tuesday aimed at bolstering the "care economy," the White House said, issuing more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care.
Though millions of Americans are expected to be kicked off of Medicaid in coming months, they don't all have to be left uninsured.
The manufacturer of a key medication abortion drug asked the Supreme Court on Friday to intervene in an emergency dispute over a Texas judge's medication abortion drug ruling, requesting that the court step in now rather than wait for an appeal of the ruling to formally play out.
Hundreds of thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will for the first time soon be eligible for affordable health care coverage after President Joe Biden announced a plan Thursday to expand access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace.
The Justice Department said Wednesday it plans to seek a court order to put on hold a federal judge's ruling from last month that put in jeopardy some of the Affordable Care Act's mandates for insurers to provide no-cost coverage of preventive care treatments, including certain cancer and STD screenings.
In picturesque Bonner County, Idaho, Leandra Wright, 40, is pregnant with her seventh child.
In picturesque Bonner County, Idaho, Leandra Wright, 40, is pregnant with her seventh child.
US health officials have issued a final rule that not only makes some changes to Medicare -- including expanding access to behavioral health care and clarifying criteria guidelines -- it cracks down on "misleading" advertisements.
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage in coming months, but residents in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire and South Dakota will be the first to bear the brunt of the terminations.
Americans' Social Security checks will get a lot smaller in 2034 if lawmakers don't act to address the pending shortfall, according to an annual report released Friday by the Social Security trustees.
China's government, strapped for cash after years of enforcing a costly zero-Covid policy, is cutting medical benefits and planning to raise the retirement age, in deeply unpopular moves that are fueling widespread public anger.
A federal judge in Texas said Thursday that some Affordable Care Act mandates cannot be enforced nationwide, including those that require insurers to cover a wide array of preventive care services at no cost to the patient, including some cancer, heart and STD screenings, and smoking cessation programs.
Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 -- bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security.