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More than half of U.S. states have limited access to gender affirming care for minors. That includes Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri. Now, the nation’s highest court will take up a case out of Tennessee this December that could have ripple effects across the country.
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Twenty states, including Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska and Kansas, have joined a lawsuit suing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over a nursing home staffing requirement.
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988 has gotten roughly 10 million calls in the last two years. U.S. officials want to to raise awareness about the service
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Patients and their caregivers are often left to navigate the confusing world of dementia by themselves, but Medicare is launching a new program to change that.
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Thirteen states across the U.S., including much of the Midwest, introduced bills this year that could give some rights to embryos and fetuses usually associated with people. None passed but people in the fertility world are concerned that lawmakers will try again and what that means for reproductive rights.
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While stories of private equity firms running amok in health care are easy to find, new research paints a more nuanced picture.
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People who use wheelchairs don’t always have access to necessary training to be able to learn advanced skills that allow them to navigate an often inaccessible world. One program in Indiana aims to address that.
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America’s health care leaders have spent two decades searching for a way to keep costly, complicated patients from cycling in and out of the hospital dozens of times a year. What have they learned?
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Lawmakers across the U.S. say they want to shield in-vitro fertilization providers from legal threats.The question is: How can they do that effectively?
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Seniors who are hospitalized with even a minor illness or injury are at risk of something called hospital-acquired disability. This puts them at risk of rehospitalizations and a downward spiral that could eventually land them in a nursing home.
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Through a combination of holistic care and house calls, doctor Clarissa Kripke is redefining what health care can be and do for adults with conditions like Down syndrome and cerebral palsy.
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A proposal by Indiana Medicaid officials would drastically cut payments that thousands of families of people with disabilities relied on. State officials say it's necessary to curb ballooning utilization and plug a huge budget gap. But some families worry the changes could lead to them losing their jobs or even their homes.