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Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

State attorneys general vowed the funds would go toward tackling the addiction crisis. But as with the tobacco payouts of the 1990s, local officials have started using them to fill budget shortfalls.

The state’s original abortion law was passed before the Civil War, when women could not vote or own property

Draconian laws banning trans care are forcing some families to flee to more progressive states

Rights groups and their lawyers have challenged abortion bans in many states and some rulings have led to a gray areas in law

Advocates challenge a law that forbids helping teens obtain abortion pills or leave the state for abortion care

The improvements "should help shut the revolving door between homelessness and incarceration"

The committee found that almost half of maternal deaths in Idaho in 2020 occurred after delivery

Even in states that allow abortion if the life of the mother is in danger, doctors say fear of prosecution is leading many to send high-risk patients to Illinois.

Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa Maria, California, suspected the ethidium bromide she was using in the lab for molecular cloning could put…