More Than 1 Million People Dropped From Medicaid As States Start Post-Pandemic Purge
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork. Though the eligibility review is required by the federal government, President’s Joe Biden’s administration isn’t […]
AMA to Amp Up Hospital Consolidation Scrutiny
CHICAGO — Physicians pressing for the American Medical Association (AMA) to do more on healthcare consolidation pushed through a resolution to produce in-depth annual reports on the topic that could be used to advocate for legislative change. At the association’s annual House of Delegates meeting this week, its Private Practice Physicians Section made the case […]
Airlines Need to Let Wheelchair Users Use Them on Planes, AMA Members Say
CHICAGO — Airlines need to do more to help patients in wheelchairs use them on the plane, members of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates said here Sunday, but they were divided on how to make that happen. Delegates attending a Sunday morning reference committee meeting were debating a resolution from two specialty […]
5 Foods That Can Have A Negative Impact On Your Mental Health
Xinzheng via Getty Images Research suggests that consuming more than 250 milligrams of caffeine per day could have a negative impact on anxiety. We rarely think about food in relation to our mental health. We worry about it leading to health issues, such as cardiovascular or gastrointestinal problems, but did you know that different foods […]
No Access to Routine Healthcare Biggest Barrier to HPV Vaccination
BALTIMORE — People with access to routine healthcare were more likely to have received human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination compared with those who did not have this access, a retrospective analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data suggested. Among participants ages 12 to 26, those with health insurance and a routine healthcare provider had […]
Quarter of Wegovy-Treated Teens With Obesity Return to Normal Weight
Far more teens with obesity treated with 2.4 mg semaglutide (Wegovy) returned to normal weight or dropped below the obesity threshold compared with placebo-treated patient, a secondary analysis of the phase IIIa STEP TEENS trial found. During the 68-week trial, 44.9% of teens with obesity returned to either normal weight or went down to the […]
More Price Transparency Needed in Healthcare, House Members Say
WASHINGTON — How much difference would more price transparency make in healthcare? House members heard — and gave — a variety of opinions on the topic at a Ways & Means Committee hearing Tuesday. “Price transparency works,” said Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.). “In the past 20 years, the prices of medical services increased by […]
Feds Spent Even More on PrEP Combo Than Previously Thought
The federal government may have contributed far more to the development of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) than previously estimated, researchers reported. While previous estimates said the federal government spent $50 million on the development of combination tenofovir/emtricitabine, or TDF/FTC (Truvada), it actually spent at least $143 million, according to a new estimate by Frazer Tessema, […]
More Men Are Expressing Interest in Vasectomy After SCOTUS Abortion Decision
CHICAGO — Vasectomy consults more than doubled in the first 3 months after the Supreme Court decision overturning national abortion rights, according to data from one large health system. From June 24 — the day the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was announced — until Sept. 24, 2022, a total of 342 vasectomy […]
ACOG PAC Donated Over $1M to Anti-Abortion Legislators
Anti-abortion politicians have received more than $1 million in funding from the political action committee (PAC) of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), researchers found. The premier professional organization for ob/gyns in the U.S with more than 60,000 members, ACOG runs Ob-GynPAC, which gave over $3.3 million to federal legislators according to publicly […]