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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of health care in America as “barbarism” in a forthcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented the high costs of health care and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must face, as she recommitted...

The 15 available seats for the nurse practitioner program were quickly snapped up and hundreds of people are on a waiting list.

Presented by AstraZeneca — Change Healthcare was struck by a cyberattack earlier this year {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Second major hospital chain hit by cyberattack The largest Catholic hospital chain in the U.S. confirmed this week that a “cybersecurity event” took place in its network, making it the second hospital...

A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt to toss a suit challenging Alabama's attorney general's threat to prosecute those who help with out-of-state travel for abortions, paving the way for the case to move forward. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, in a preliminary ruling Monday, said the case brought by the Yellowhammer Fund —...

President Biden’s reelection campaign criticized former President Trump on Tuesday after Trump said he would get rid of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). The OPPR was founded in 2022 over failures in government response to the COVID pandemic. Trump said in a TIME interview on Monday that office isn't necessary. The office is “a way of...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story White House moving to reschedule marijuana The Biden administration will move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, months after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended a change in status. © Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story White House pushes back menthol ban The Biden administration threw cold water over its plans to issue a ban on menthol cigarettes on Friday, with officials saying a final rule will take “significantly more time.” © AP The...

The Biden administration is bolstering health care protections against discrimination for gay and transgender people, reversing a Trump administration rule that gutted the protections.  In a wide-ranging final rule released Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) strengthened the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) rules that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, including on...

Particles of bird flu were detected in some samples of pasteurized milk, though the virus in that form is not a threat to humans, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday. As a bird flu epidemic spreads through avian and cattle livestock across the country, the FDA increased testing of domestic milk supplies. Some...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final draft of a post-Dobbs rule protecting patient records from being used to potentially prosecute patients who receive reproductive health services...

Suzanne Kuchinka, mayor of the village of Macoun in southeast Saskatchewan, says it's been a struggle for years to keep family doctors because they retire or move elsewhere.

A coalition of doctors are sounding the alarm on the need for increased syphilis testing for pregnant individuals, amid a recent surge of the sexually transmitted infection in U.S. newborns. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) published new guidance Thursday, recommending doctors screen pregnant individuals for syphilis three times during pregnancy. Obstetricians, gynecologists...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Congress turns its eye to health care cybersecurity Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are ramping up probes into health care cybersecurity following the Change Healthcare ransomware attack earlier this year. © AP The attack on Change...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Wednesday credited the Republican push to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that upheld a near-total abortion ban from the Civil War era. In an interview on Fox Business, host Larry Kudlow asked Ernst what she thought of the court’s decision to uphold the ban, noting,...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon}   Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Fallout from Arizona abortion ruling just beginning An Arizona Supreme Court decision imposing a near-total abortion ban shows there's no safe position for Republicans to take on abortion. © Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images The...

Former President Trump said he would put out a statement on Monday morning on abortion following a Florida court ruling that prompted questions about whether he supports the state's looming ban on the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. "Republicans, and all others, must follow their hearts and minds, but remember that, like Ronald Reagan...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Florida abortion ban leaves women with few options The potential fallout from Florida’s looming six-week abortion ban is likely to reverberate across the entire country. © AP The state Supreme Court’s Monday ruling to uphold the current 15-week...

An Alabama hospital said it plans to stop offering in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments at the end of this year due to “litigation concerns” surrounding the therapy. Mobile Infirmary said “it will no longer be able to offer” IVF services in a news release on Wednesday. The decision follows Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that people...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Biden touts drug pricing action with help from Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined President Biden at the White House Wednesday to tout progress they’ve made at lowering drug costs, especially for common medicines like inhalers and...