State Insurance Mandates Don’t Improve Racial Disparities in ART Live Births
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Insurance mandates for fertility treatment with donor oocytes may improve overall live birth rates, but the current policies fail to reduce racial disparities in assisted reproductive treatment (ART), according to a retrospective study. Overall, state insurance requirements for coverage of donor oocytes were linked to a 10% increase in the odds of […]
School Mask, Vaccine Mandates Take Center Stage at Senate Hearing
Senators sparred over school mask mandates and whether the federal government can and should mandate COVID vaccines for eligible kids during a Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on Thursday. While new CDC data showed that schools without mask mandates were 3.5 times more likely to have a COVID-19 outbreak, some governors and […]
Fauci: Mask, Vaccine Mandates Needed in Schools
Mask mandates are needed in schools as part of a layered approach to prevent the spread of COVID-19, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said during a New York Times event on Thursday. COVID vaccines could become available for some children under the age of 12 as early as this fall, he said, but until that […]