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Lawsuit could end free preventive health checkups

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, its authors cited three overarching goals: to improve access to health care, to slow rising medical costs and to improve health outcomes.

Tribune News Service · Aug 9, 2022

It's OK To Warn Sexually Active Gay and Bisexual Men They're at Greater Risk of Monkeypox

Good public health messaging must be comprehensible, accurate, and actionable.

Reason · Aug 9, 2022

Texas sues Biden administration over guidance requiring abortions in medical emergencies

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration July 14 after Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released guidance July 11 requiring doctors to provide abortions in medical emergencies when “abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve [the emergency] condition.” The guidance went…

Ballotpedia · Aug 4, 2022

As monkeypox cases near 200 in Chicago, Pritzker pushes feds for more vaccines to slow the spread

In Chicago, where 86% of the state’s cases are being reported, a second dose of the two-part vaccine is being delayed for some as the city awaits more doses.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 21, 2022

Biden's realism approach runs head-on into liberal pressure

When it comes to the thorniest issues confronting his administration, the instinct from Biden and his White House is to often speak about what he can’t do, citing constraints imposed by the courts or insufficient support in a Congress that is controlled by his own party

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2022

The National Suicide Hotline has changed its emergency number to 988

The new number will replace the current ten-digit number to reach help

The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2022

The National Suicide Hotline has changed its emergency number to 988

The new number will replace the current ten-digit number to reach help

The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2022

Michael Hiltzik: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America

The Fugitive Slave Act was perhaps the most detested law in all American history.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 14, 2022

Senate Judiciary kicks off series of abortion policy hearings

WASHINGTON — An hour before the Supreme Court issued its June 24 decision overturning the national right to an abortion, the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri issued a personal plea to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra: Please declare a…

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

Senate Judiciary kicks off series of abortion policy hearings - Roll Call

Democrats hope to signal they are looking for ways to protect abortion access, but constraints have limited what can be accomplished. 

Roll Call · Jul 12, 2022