New research indicates the uptick in requests for sterilization following the Dobbs decision on abortion was not a temporary trend. Nationally, numbers of tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.
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A Georgia school trains doulas for rural areas that are losing maternity care
In Georgia, the Morehouse School of Medicine is training rural community doulas who will help pregnant women in the southwest part of the state, where maternal mortality rates are high.
Supreme Court allows Idaho to offer emergency medical abortions
The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.
‘Medicaid unwinding’ can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications
States overhauling Medicaid rolls have accidentally dropped eligible people from coverage, sometimes for months. That can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications.
‘Medicaid unwinding’ can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications
States overhauling Medicaid rolls have accidentally dropped eligible people from coverage, sometimes for months. That can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications.
Meet the doctors trying to integrate abortion into primary care
Why is abortion care usually delivered at specialized clinics? The answer has to do more with stigma and politics than medicine. Historically, this part of reproductive health care has been siloed.
A New Jersey hospital moves its nurse managers to a four-day work week due to burnout
A hospital in New Jersey is among several that have moved nurse managers, who oversee scores of bedside nurses on a unit, to a four-day work week to address burnout and high turnover.
Cyberattack led to harrowing lapses at Ascension hospitals, clinicians say
Problems caused by the attack included delayed or lost lab results, medication errors, and an absence of routine safety checks to prevent potentially fatal mistakes, doctors and nurses told reporters.
Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it’s his last
Over the course of his decades-long career in public health, Fauci vowed he would never shy away from speaking truth the U.S. president— even when it was inconvenient. Fauci’s memoir is On Call.
50% of U.S. military bases are in a health care desert, NPR probe finds
An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.
