A state circuit court judge blocked some parts of Missouri’s near-total abortion ban after an abortion ballot measure’s passage in November. But the ruling preserved other restrictions, including that abortion facilities have to be licensed by the state.  In his Friday preliminary injunction, Jackso...

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CEO Paul Mango, and Craig Samitt, M.D., who is heading up the organization’s new value-based care enablement company Longitude PHM, discuss putting an emphasis on specialist care

Lawmakers have agreed to attach a sweeping health care package to a year-end stopgap government funding legislation, according to text obtained by The Hill ahead of the release of the full bill.  The health portion contains pharmaceutical benefit manager industry reforms, extensions of Medicare tele...

A poll found 41 percent of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson acceptable, more than the 40 percent in that demographic who consider it unacceptable. Anger over health insurance companies has been in the spotlight after Thompson was fatally shot Dec. 4 in New ...

The helicopter evacuation of 70 people from a Tennessee hospital during Hurricane Helene is considered a success story. The building was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Friday blasted “specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress” after The New York Times reported that a lawyer linked to Robert F. Kennedy has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. ...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he's "not surprised" by the flood of online vitriol following the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in what police describe as an apparent premeditated attack. “Well, first of all, let me just say, it was horrific. I mean, this is a father w...

President-elect Trump in a new interview signaled he would not move to restrict access to abortion pills upon taking office, even as he acknowledged "things change." "I’ll probably stay with exactly what I've been saying for the last two years. And the answer is no," Trump told Kristen Welker on "Me...

The morning-after pill is legal across the U.S., even in the states with the strictest abortion bans — but many Americans don't know that, in part due to a mistaken belief that the pill is abortion medication. Nearly a third of American adults are unsure if emergency contraception like the morning-a...

Scott Gottlieb, who served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during President-elect Trump’s first term, expressed concerns with the pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to his anti-vaccine advocacy. “I think if RFK follow...

Malicious actors targeting healthcare organizations are a given these days. The value of patient data is as good as gold for planning secondary attacks. Plus, cybercriminals know that many smaller hospitals are underfunded and understaffed when it comes to IT security, which make them a tempting tar...