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Private Medicare plans that pay for prescription drugs can now cover obesity medicine Wegovy, if it’s prescribed to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people at high risk.

Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That’s why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting facility in Seattle, come from out of state.

For a decade, Florida lawmakers have debated whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent the legislature and take the issue directly to voters.

Florida lawmakers have debated for a decade whether to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent legislature and take the issue directly to voters.

Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.

A national survey of people who care for someone with dementia found that the vast majority could use help navigating a maze of services.

Kentucky has one black lung doctor left after the state legislature restricted who can review workers’ compensation claims for the disease. This came amid a surge in black lung cases in Appalachia.

The number of newborns born with syphilis – a serious sexually transmitted infection – has skyrocketed 755% in the decade from 2012 to 2022. These babies have congenital syphilis, which is when the infection is passed from mother to baby during pregnan…

A troubling new report from Louisiana shows how the state’s abortion ban from 2022 is forcing doctors to delay or withhold medical care in ways that make pregnancy more dangerous.

We hear from Lost Patients, a podcast that tries to make sense of the U.S. mental health care system.