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Trump Team Faces Key Legal Decision That Could Put Mental Health Parity in Peril
The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce laws requiring parity in insurance coverage of mental and physical health care.
Read MoreA California Lawmaker Leans Into Her Medical Training in Fight for Health Safety Net
As California’s budget deadline looms, state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, a physician-turned-lawmaker, says state leaders may soon have to make some tough decisions on health care spending.
Read MoreSTAT+: From pandemic preparedness to precious frozen spit, NIH contract terminations cut deep
DOGE lists just over 400 NIH contracts it says have been cancelled under its directive to reduce contract spending by 35%
Read MoreSTAT+: Medicare Advantage challenges catch up to UnitedHealth
Over the past two years, UnitedHealth Group seemed immune from the higher costs and systemic changes in the Medicare Advantage program that bedeviled its rivals. Until now.
Read MoreOpinion: Requiring a four-year emergency medicine residency is a terrible idea
A proposal to require four years of emergency residency “threatens to burden future residents while failing to meaningfully improve the quality of their education,” an ER doc writes.
Read MoreSTAT+: As Trump attacks on Harvard gain momentum, researchers scramble: ‘Everyone can read the writing on the wall’
As Trump attacks on Harvard gain momentum, researchers are scrambling: "Everyone can read the writing on the wall.
Read MoreThe next frontier: Healthtech skilling and education in India
Dr Gunjan Kishor Sharma, Physician, Healthtech Innovator and Director, MeshApp.ai stresses that to bridge this skill gap, a new breed of edtech and healthtech skilling platforms are stepping in.
Read More78 per cent of EHs willing to pay more for better healthcare services:Report
Over 60 per cent experience local services gaps in access to quality local healthcare & are willing to pay more, if delivered locally
Read MoreOne Bariatric Surgery Procedure Better for the Heart?
(MedPage Today) -- People who underwent gastric bypass had lower rates of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) than those who had sleeve gastrectomy, a cohort study found.
Read MoreU.S. Infant Mortality Dropped in 2024. Experts Partly Credit RSV Shots.
(MedPage Today) -- The nation's infant mortality rate dropped last year after 2 years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau.
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