A presidential debate, GLP-1s for kids, and ultra-processed foods research
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Trump struggles to find an abortion answer
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump is still struggling to land on an abortion answer that…
Birth control has become harder to get. New York has some creative solutions
A typical vending machine on a university campus might offer students the usual range of…
STAT+: Takeaways from the DNC on the health care fights ahead
WASHINGTON — The Democrats were not subtle this week about what their health care priorities are…
Oprah, Walz and other Democrats hammer reproductive freedom message at DNC
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Abortion rights and drug pricing program take spotlight at first night of DNC
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STAT+: Democratic platform favors slate of smaller goals over a health overhaul
WASHINGTON — Gone are the days when Democrats bickered over wholesale reform of the American…
5 health issues to watch for at the Democratic National Convention
WASHINGTON — Democrats have set the stage for a convention this week packed with boasts…
Abortion, shingles, extreme heat, and sudden cardiac arrest
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The politics of mifepristone in the 2024 election
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Why Trump’s mifepristone comments were a gift to the Harris campaign
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump doesn’t want to talk much about abortion in his 2024 presidential…
Trump’s real health care agenda isn’t in Project 2025 — it’s in his own words
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump has made it abundantly clear that nobody else speaks for…
Harris’ reported running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, boasts progressive health care record
WASHINGTON — With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris…
Harris health care agenda swiftly hailed by progressives and reproductive rights groups
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s announcement Sunday that he would be dropping out of the presidential…
Kamala Harris, endorsed by Biden to replace him, is left of the president on health care
WASHINGTON — President Biden is ending his bid for a second term in office and…
Where 3 Democrats who could replace Biden atop the ticket stand on health care
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race has left the…
Trump rallies his base on bolstering health care, avoiding thorny questions about health rights
WASHINGTON — In a far-ranging, free-wheeling 90-minute acceptance speech for the Republican nomination to the…
Opinion: Supreme Court’s nondecision jeopardizes emergency abortion care
By dismissing a case that would have determined whether emergency abortion care is encompassed under…
Trump’s 2024 platform abandons calls to cut Medicare, broadly restrict abortion
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump says he “will not cut one penny” from Medicare and…
Making sense of the debate’s health care debate
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Biden’s Supreme Court abortion wins could be short lived
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court this month handed President Biden a pair of wins on…
Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday released an opinion allowing emergency abortions in Idaho but…
The Supreme Court appears set to reject Idaho’s near-total abortion ban
The Supreme Court appears ready to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, according to a document…
Opinion: Listen: Rep. Diana DeGette on why reproductive freedom must be protected
It has been two years since the Supreme Court made the historic decision to overturn…
Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancy
Since Texas’s ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by…
Opinion: Two years since Dobbs, reproductive freedom must be protected from assault
It’s been two years since America’s highest court removed a constitutional right — for the…
J.P. Morgan has officially jumped into early stage biotech investing
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Opinion: The fight over medical abortion has worsened pregnancy care
The Supreme Court unanimously shut down one of many troubling tugs of war over access…
Biopharma execs cheer Supreme Court for upholding FDA authority in abortion pill case
On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected an effort by anti-abortion doctors to bar the mailing…
Supreme Court unanimously rejects challenge to mailed abortion pills
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that anti-abortion doctors did not have standing to challenge the…
Senators tussle over abortion policy against the backdrop of a presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, U.S. senators on…
The doctor would treat her sickle cell pain crisis — if she promised not to get an abortion
Here are some things A. was told when she arrived at the hospital one night…
STAT+: Getting abortion pills through the mail is safe, quick, and effective, study finds
Amid a national furor over access to abortion, a new study found that dispensing abortion…
STAT+: Washington kicks into gear on H5N1
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Opinion: EMTALA, a vital health law you’ve never heard of, is in danger
Anyone who has gone to a hospital’s emergency room expecting to receive medical care —…
Biden administration finalizes abortion privacy protections
WASHINGTON — Biden officials are still pressing to shore up abortion protections amid an onslaught…
Hospitals largely keep quiet on maternal care since Dobbs, STAT survey finds
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has transformed not just abortion access…
Opinion: As a rule, rape exceptions for abortion don’t work
A year before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Texas implemented Senate…
Florida accounts for 8% of U.S. abortions. Where will patients go?
Abortion access organizations say they are confronting an imminent crisis with Florida’s forthcoming six-week ban…
Florida Supreme Court upholds state’s 15-week ban on most abortions, paving way for 6-week ban
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday upheld the state’s ban on most…
Who can sue the FDA? Answering Justice Alito’s question from the mifepristone arguments
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had a clear question at Tuesday’s arguments over…
Supreme Court mifepristone arguments focus on physicians’ right to sue, not FDA judgment
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed to question physician’s right to sue the…
SCOTUS’ abortion pill mifepristone case is really about the FDA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear opening arguments in an abortion medication…
Abortion law emergency-exemption guidance proposed by Texas Medical Board
The Texas Medical Board, responding to pressure from the state Supreme Court and widespread uncertainty…
Fetal tissue research gains in importance as roadblocks multiply
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have spent years trying to unravel the details of…
Amid the battle over abortion rights, a failure to agree on how to define abortion
Every year, Lisa Campo-Engelstein tells her medical ethics class the story of Isabel: A fictional…
Opinion: How ideas from ancient Greece like ‘a bun in the oven’ continue to affect reproductive health policy
On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v….
CVS and Walgreens plan to start dispensing abortion pill mifepristone soon
The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an abortion pill in a few…
GSK pill works in uncomplicated gonorrhea
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Abortion pills offered via telehealth as safe as in-person medication abortions, study finds
With the Supreme Court just a month away from hearing arguments over access to the…