More Than 4 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Will Have Their Medicare Advantage or Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plan Terminated at the End of 2026
Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 4.3 million Medicare…
More Than 4 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Will Have Their Medicare Advantage or Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plan Terminated at the End of 2026
Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 4.3 million Medicare beneficiaries, including 3.1 million Medicare Advantage drug plan enrollees and 1.2 million PDP enrollees, will have their plan terminated at the end of 2026. An additional 1.4 million Medicare Advantage enrollees are in a plan that is consolidating with another…
Remember This Acronym Next Time You’re Facing a Big Medical Decision: B.R.A.I.N.
(Maria Fabrizio for WPLN and KFF Health News) Gina Conley, an Army veteran in Aberdeen, North Carolina, knew she wanted a low-intervention birth for her first child. But her plan started to go off the rails as soon as she got to the hospital. “Everything that I did not want to happen had happened,” she…
Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste
This article was produced in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in…
Can AI Find the Cure?
Medicine has its maps: Anatomists charted the body, and the Human Genome Project gave us the code. Now, the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort involving thousands of scientists, is using AI to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells to understand human health and diagnose, monitor and treat disease. Given the extraordinary implications…
How Experts Are Reacting to Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order
Women’s health experts had mixed reactions to the Trump administration’s executive order on women’s health. The post How Experts Are Reacting to Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order appeared first on MedCity News.
Survey: More Than Half of Women in States with Abortion Bans Wouldn’t Know Where to Get an Abortion if They Needed One, Up Since 2024
More than half (53%) of reproductive-age women living in states with abortion-provision bans say they would not know where to go or where to find information if they needed an abortion, up from 43% in 2024, according to a new KFF survey.
Women’s Experiences with Abortion, Access, and Concerns About Future Pregnancy
This brief provides national estimates from the 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey on reproductive age women’s experiences with abortion, the impact of Dobbs on abortion access and women’s concerns about future pregnancies, as well as women’s knowledge on the availability of medication abortion.
Obesity Biotech Corxel Is Going Public in a Merger as Oral GLP-1 Heads to Phase 3
Corxel Pharmaceuticals is catching up to others with oral GLP-1 obesity drugs, but the biotech claims its small molecule could offer better tolerability compared to the rest of its class. The SPAC merger taking Corxel public is expected to close in the first half of 2027, which is when the biotech plans to start a…
ONC’s HTI-5 Final Rule Cuts Health IT Certification Requirements
ONC estimates the rule will save more than $1.5 billion in regulatory costs while retaining key privacy, security, patient safety, accessibility and interoperability requirements
Sutter Health Expands Remote Monitoring Program to Patients with Heart Failure
Sutter Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in Sacramento, California, is expanding its digital chronic disease management program, Sutter Sync, to include patients with heart failure. The expansion adds a remote monitoring technology from San Francisco-based medical tech company BodyPort. The program expansion comes as health systems look for ways to identify deterioration in a…
