I Got Cancer at 35. The Health Insurance System Delayed My Treatment for Months
Young adults face rising cancer rates — and barriers to timely interventions.
Millions Will See Rise in Health Insurance Premiums If Federal Subsidies Expire
The Trump administration is unlikely to extend aid that has cut the cost of exchange plans.
Poll: Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Say Government Should Ensure Health Care Coverage
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal health care.
‘MAGA Abortion Bans Kill Women’: Pregnant Texas Teen Dead After Care Denied
"Make no mistake Donald Trump's abortion ban did this," said one reproductive rights leader. "We must stop him."
The Abortion Fight That Shows Just How Broken Our Healthcare System Is
The federal government is battling states over funding for family planning services—and leaving patients caught in the middle.
She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.
Crossing State Lines to Get an Abortion is a New Legal Minefield, With Courts to Decide if There’s a Right to Travel
Since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling, US states have made abortion harder to access, leading to increased interstate travel for abortions, legal battles, and uncertainty about abortion rights.
Are Patients From Florida Going Elsewhere for Abortions — or Staying Pregnant?
It’s been 3 months since the state passed a strict 6-week abortion limit. That's affected access to care in ways that are just starting to show.
After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought
Activists say the research marks a growing awareness connecting everyday life to the toxic contamination of the planet and ongoing harm to the climate. More research is examining how women…
The Biden Administration Says Its Trade Policy Puts People Over Corporations. Documents on Baby Formula Show Otherwise.
By Heather Vogell / ProPublica The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health…
Real-Time Data Show the Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Is Even Worse Than Expected
By Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The…
Wins at the Ballot Box for Abortion Rights Still Mean Court Battles for Access
By Bram Sable-Smith / KFF Health News Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so…
Hundreds of Doctors Demand Biden End Solitary Confinement in Immigration Prisons
Solitary confinement in ICE prisons would likely explode in scope under Trump’s mass deportation plan.
War Surgery Is Not Peace Surgery: An American Doctor in Gaza
By Catherine Mullaly / PassBlue Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a 42-year-old critical care and trauma surgeon based at San Joaquin General Hospital, a level-two trauma center, in San Joaquin County,…
Gaza’s Collapsing Health System is One of the Goals of Israel’s Genocide
Israel is deliberately destroying the entire health sector in Gaza as only 4 hospitals remain operational. "If these hospitals stop working, they will turn into mass graves, like Nasser and…