President Donald Trump ratcheted up his administration’s reversal of transgender rights on Tuesday with an executive order that seeks to intervene in parents’ medical decisions by prohibiting government-funded insurance coverage of puberty blockers or surgery for people under 19. Trump’s order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” is certain to face legal challenges…
We must think beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and embrace the diversity of obstructive sleep apnea. This means continuing to innovate, collaborating across sectors, and keeping patients at the center of every decision. The post A New Era in OSA: Bridging the Gap with Novel Treatment Solutions appeared first on MedCity News.
Active investors chose Healthy Young Minds as the Pitch Perfect winner at the INVEST Digital Health Conference in Dallas. See how the company’s CEO accepted the award. The post Video: INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect Winner Accepting Award appeared first on MedCity News.
Nearly 100 health care-themed haikus crept into our inbox this Halloween. See the winning poems and top runners-up from KFF Health News’ seventh annual Halloween haiku contest, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges’ favorites were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays. Follow KFF Health News’ social media accounts (X, Instagram, and…
La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de Opdivo+Yervoy, una combinación de inmunoterapias para tratar el melanoma metastásico y el cáncer de pulmón. Los comerciales de Skyrizi, un medicamento para tratar la psoriasis en placas y otras enfermedades, muestran a los pacientes buceando…
This issue brief answers some key questions about abortion in the United States and presents data collected before and new data that has been published since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid. “People don’t realize how much these clinics hold together the local health system until they’re gone,” said George Hill, the group’s…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave transparency, accountability, and privacy concerns,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said Thursday. In a May 8 letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided exclusively to KFF Health News, Wyden, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance…
Hansa Biopharma has encouraging early clinical results showing its drug imlifidase, used as a pretreatment, enabled Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients to receive the gene therapy Elevidys. Sarepta is searching for ways to mitigate excessive immune responses to Elevidys that can lead to serious and potentially fatal liver injury. The post Sarepta’s Future in Gene Therapy…
The death wasn’t due to Beam Therapeutics’ sickle cell disease therapy, BEAM-101, but was instead attributed to the preconditioning treatment needed before the genetic medicine is infused. A different Beam program in preclinical development could avoid the need for toxic preconditioning; data from both programs will be presented during the upcoming American Society of Hematology…