The last time I went to the doctor, I lived in a different zip code, belonged to a different body-weight category, and was rounding out a different decade. I never consciously swore off health care, but who likes feeling dismissed—or consistently being told that the next available appointment is months down the road? Yet after … Read more
In the biggest case of the term, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on certain gender transition medical treatments for transgender minors. View original article Contributor: Ann Marimow
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The Washington Post’s essential guide to health policy news. View original article Contributor: McKenzie Beard
LGBTQ+ advocates worry a blitz of state prohibitions on gender transition care for minors will go national because of Kennedy’s past comments. View original article Contributor: Fenit Nirappil
After a court overturned a ban, the agency has proposed restricting chlorpyrifos to 11 food crops, illustrating the limits of federal regulation. View original article Contributor: Roni Caryn Rabin
Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike. View original article Contributor: Sarah Kliff
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Trump Wants to Shake Up Health Care. Many Americans Don’t Mind. The New York Times >View original article Contributor:
When Kari Leibowitz moved to the Arctic in 2014, she braced herself for the impact of long, dark, freezing winters. The temperature in Tromsø, Norway, plunges to subarctic levels on the coldest nights, and it snows almost daily for eight months of the year. Surely the wind would slap her face, and unshoveled snow would … Read more