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Amanda Seitz

Amanda Seitz

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Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic for millions of obese Americans

The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sets the stage for a potential showdown between the powerful...

26.11.2024 8

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North Carolina’s young women focus on abortion bans as they consider Harris or Trump

Nationally, 4 in 10 women under 30 years old say abortion is their top issue.

24.10.2024 10

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More free COVID-19 tests soon available by mail, government announces

U.S. households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens.

24.08.2024 10

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Pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are being dismissed from hospitals because doctors are scared to treat them, lawsuit claims

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an...

12.08.2024 6

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The surgeon general’s mom warned him in middle school to avoid politics. He didn’t listen to her

As surgeon general, Vivek Murthy had largely stayed quiet on gun violence, until now.

12.08.2024 5

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U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency

The advisory came as another weekend was marked by mass shootings in the U.S.

25.06.2024 10

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Biden administration says 100,000 Dreamers will enroll in Obamacare

It will allow thousands of migrants to access lucrative tax breaks when they sign up for coverage after the Affordable Care Act's marketplace...

03.05.2024 70

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Actor Halle Berry is pushing for legislation to fund menopause research and education: ‘The shame has to be taken out of menopause’

Berry, 57, shouted about menopause outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.

02.05.2024 70

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Roe v. Wade repeal horror revealed as red-state emergency rooms from Florida to Texas deny care to pregnant women

Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal...

19.04.2024 60

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State Medicaid offices try to take away dead people’s homes to recoup their health care bills: ‘It is one of the most cruel, ineffective programs that we see’

It is part of a routine process the federal government requires of every state: to recover money from the assets of dead people who, in their final...

18.03.2024 30

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Millions of older Americans can't get weight loss drugs like Wegovy because Medicare won't pay for them

Drugmakers and a wide-ranging and growing bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for a change next year.

28.12.2023 9

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Pharma will pay rebates in 2024 on 48 drugs whose prices rose more than inflation this year: ‘Let’s call this for what it is—it simply is a rip off’

The White House unveiled a list of 48 drugs — from chemotherapy treatments to growth hormones used to treat endocrine disorders — whose prices...

15.12.2023 8

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The White House threatens to cancel the patents of taxpayer-funded drugs if they’re too expensive for patients to afford

The move follows a first-ever effort from the White House to negotiate what Medicare pays for medicines.

07.12.2023 30

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