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Tennessee law changes starting July 1 will restrict trans health care, fund more school safety

Republican lawmakers and Gov. Bill Lee have approved hundreds of laws in Tennessee this year

The Independent UK

'Extraordinary measure': almost one million beanies sold for cancer

'This drives critical research, education and health care improvements.'

Newcastle Herald

North Carolina measure limiting LGBTQ+ curriculum heading to governor's desk

North Carolina lawmakers have finalized legislation touted by Republicans as giving parents greater authority over their children's public school education and health care

The Independent UK

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On Saturday, Florida hospitals start asking patients’ immigration status. Advocates call requirement ‘dangerous’

Starting Saturday, most Florida hospitals will start collecting data on patients’ immigration status, bucking advice from clinicians who warn this could deter sick people from seeking care.

Orlando Sentinel

An Apple a Day: Food Can Be Medicine for Low-Income Californians Under Health Care Plans

An innovative program for Medi-Cal patients demonstrates food, when prescribed, can change health outcomes. Why did the state Assembly derail it?

Capital & Main

The DEA relaxed online prescribing rules during COVID. Now it wants to rein them in

Federal regulators want most patients to see a health care provider in person before receiving prescriptions for potentially addictive medicines through telehealth — something that hasn’t been required in more than three years.

Tribune News Service

Dozens in 16 states charged with health care fraud schemes, including $1.9B in bogus claims

The Justice Department has charged dozens of people in several health care fraud and prescription drug schemes

The Independent UK

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78 people face charges for $2.5 billion in attempted health care fraud, DOJ says

At least $1.1 billion was actually paid out in these schemes targeting elderly patients, high-risk and low-income pregnant women and HIV patients.

WEKU

HHS has limited options as millions lose Medicaid - Roll Call

States are booting millions off of the Medicaid rolls, but the Biden administration has few options to keep people from losing health care.

Roll Call

Can transgender minors transition in North Carolina? State Senate votes to restrict such procedures

RALEIGH, N.C. — When the North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill restricting health care for transgender minors, lawmakers were met with three words from the gallery.

Tribune News Service

UnitedHealth buying home health care provider in $3.3B deal

UnitedHealth Group has struck a deal to acquire home health care provider Amedisys Inc. for $3.3 billion in an all-cash deal.

Tribune News Service

Pickleball has been a lifeline for seniors, but the sport’s injuries may cost Americans nearly $400 million this year

The outlet for seniors may also be contributing to more injury-related health care costs.

Fortune

Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community ‘visible, vibrant’ — but concerned for transgender members’ ability to ‘live your life freely.’

As Pride Month comes to a close, the Sun-Times spoke to advocates, service providers and members of the LGBTQ+ community about the key issues affecting them — and what more needs to be done.

Chicago Sun-Times

Nurses have had enough, threatening big gaps in US health care

A large swath of American nurses want out of the profession, raising the threat of a mass exodus that would leave gaping holes in health care.

Tribune News Service

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Lisa Jarvis: For many women seeking abortions, all roads now lead to Illinois

June 24, 2022, was a devastating day for Jennifer Welsch, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. That was the day the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision overruled Roe v. Wade, clearing the way for states to ban or severely restrict abortion.

Tribune News Service

More blue states declare themselves sanctuaries for transgender health care

Democratic governors and state lawmakers across the country are mobilizing against a surge of Republican restrictions on transgender health care by establishing their states as sanctuaries for gender-affirming care.

The Conversation

BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many health care professionals are questioning one of the key measures that has long been used to define obesity.

Fortune

How a Fortune 500 tech company is helping transgender employees weather an anti-trans backlash

Financial-software giant Intuit has listened to and stood up for its transgender staff at a pivotal time.

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Interesting Public Records Act Case

From Silverman v. Ariz. Health Care Cost Containment Sys., decided Thursday by the Arizona Court of Appeals (in an opinion by Chief Judge Kent E. Cattani, joined by Judge Cynthia J. Bailey and Vice Chief Judge David B. Gass): This public records case presents a narrow issue of potentially broad…

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker getting heat for scaling back health care program for undocumented immigrants

The sharpest criticism came from activists. “Governor Pritzker is not different from Ron DeSantis hurting the most vulnerable immigrants,” the Healthy Illinois Campaign said in a statement.

The Conversation

A year after Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, Black women still struggle for access to reproductive health care

It’s been a year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the predictions by several experts that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would lead individual states to ban abortions have come true.

The Conversation

Migrants often can't access US health care until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face

“Can you tell me about cancer care for the undocumented?” I asked Henry during an interview. He was a doctor who volunteered his time at a community-based clinic designed exclusively for low-income undocumented migrants.

Capital & Main

How Deeply Does Our Health Care System Discriminate?

Even the safest hospitals still display wide gaps in health outcomes based on patients’ skin color.

Fortune

The U.S. federal government relaxed online drug prescription rules during the pandemic. Now it wants to rein them in

Supporters say the proposed rules would increase access to health care and help prevent medication misuse.

Salon

Muddled abortion laws confuse doctors

In states with changing abortion laws and legal challenges to new laws, physicians are uncertain of what procedures

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