Advocates across Florida are holding rallies, conferences and awareness events for Black Maternal Health Week to stop preventable deaths of babies and mothers.
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A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin, on track to become the first new antibiotic for gonorrhea since the 1990s.
This is part four of a four-part series titled “Medically Unnecessary’’ that has examined how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed onto state-run health insurance not designed for their needs.
Both gallstones and kidney stones can be very painful. Gallstones are deposits of digestive fluid, while kidney stones are crystals formed from chemicals in the urine. Both types of stones may pass. Gallstones may require the removal of the gallbladder.
Florida Healthy Kids doesn’t work for many medically vulnerable kids. Here’s whyThis is part three of a four-part series examining how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed onto state-run health insurance not designed for their needs.
Black people like Ball, outspoken father of two NBA players and a rap star, are up to four times more likely to undergo diabetes-related amputations than Whites.
The cuts directly contradict a promise Trump made in 2019 to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
This is part two of a four-part series examining how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed on-needs. to state-run health insurance not designed for them. Breana Dion is angry.
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
Medically Unnecessary is a four-part series examining how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed onto state-run health insurance not designed for their needs. Part One of a four part series