This brief provides an overview of deaths in ICE custody and detention centers under the Trump administration based on KFF analysis of ICE detainee death reporting and news releases and reviews recent reports of health care issues in detention centers.
LB Pharmaceuticals’ planned IPO will fund late-stage clinical development of LB-102, a once-daily pill designed to improve on the old Sanofi schizophrenia drug Solian. The IPO filing follow a corporate restructuring in May that cut the jobs of LB’s chief financial and scientific officers to streamline operations and extend its cash runway. The post With…
How can we characterize the epidemiology and health care resource utilization of Americans with schizophrenia? This is the question a new paper in JMCP by Parks et al. (2026) aims to answer among patients enrolled in Medicaid. The authors use Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) Analytic Files from 2016 to 2022 and find that:…
This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address family planning in low- and middle-income countries in 2023, which totaled US$1.47 billion, and was an increase of 7% (US$101 million) compared to the 2022 amount (US$1.37 billion); although, it was still below the peak level reached in 2019 (US$1.58 billion). The overall increase…
At this year’s Healthcare Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., healthcare leaders tackled some of the industry’s biggest challenges — from AI governance and cybersecurity to interoperability, digital medicine and operational transformation. Here are just a few of the conversations and themes that stood out throughout the day.
Valora Therapeutics’ antibody lectin chimeras, or AbLecs, target glyco-immune checkpoints, pathways that modulate cellular communication with the immune system. The startup’s science is based on research from Carolyn Bertozzi, a Stanford professor who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The post Startup Valora Unveils a Sweet Way to Stop Cancer and Autoimmune Disease,…
Este verano, durante una cena con su mejor amiga, Jacki Barden habló de un tema incómodo: la posibilidad de morir sola. “No tengo hijos, ni esposo, ni hermanos”, recordó haber dicho Barden. “¿Quién va a sostener mi mano cuando muera?”. Barden, de 75 años, nunca tuvo hijos. Vive sola en el oeste de Massachusetts desde…
Executives say sales have rebounded and are forecasting that the data and technology company’s 2025 top line will be level with last year’s.
This interactive map shows the increase in states with laws restricting abortion coverage in Medicaid and private insurance since 2010.
El “One Big Beautiful Bill” del presidente Donald Trump recorta el gasto federal en los mercados de Medicaid y la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo precio (ACA) en aproximadamente $1.000 millones a lo largo de una década, según la Oficina de Presupuesto del Congreso (CBO), una entidad no partidista. Esto amenaza la salud…