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After decades of unsuccessful efforts to improve California prison conditions, advocates and a federal judge are betting that bonuses and better work accommodations will attract and keep the mental health professionals needed to better treat prisoners.
The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health budgets, and withdraws funding for bird flu vaccines, health security experts said.
Worried that President Donald Trump鈥檚 FDA might not act, a panel of cancer experts recommended that doctors consider testing before dosing patients with a commonly used but sometimes deadly cancer drug. It came too late for many patients.
Ballad Health, a state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in Tennessee and Virginia, can now be deemed a 鈥渃lear and convincing鈥 benefit to the public with performance that would earn a 鈥淒鈥 on most grading scales, according to Tennessee state documents.
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Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Federal cuts are hurting community organizations in California that provide language assistance services to people who speak limited English. Despite President Trump鈥檚 executive order declaring English the national language, millions in the U.S. need help navigating the health system.
Artificial intelligence products with lifelike voices are being marketed to schedule or cancel medical visits, refill prescriptions, and help triage patients. Soon, many patients might initiate contact with the health system by speaking not with a human but with AI.
Late last year, South Carolina Medicaid approved a class of medications known as GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state programs covering these effective but expensive drugs. But access remains limited, even for patients covered by Medicaid, because of stringent prerequisites that must be satisfied before starting the drug.
Fresh studies expose a gap in the FDA鈥檚 assessments of foods: Widely used additives could damage the mix of bacteria in your gut, causing health problems.
One thing experts agree on: The damage from the funding cuts will be varied and immense.
More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth.
While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs 鈥 which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions 鈥 see trouble ahead for patients.
More Californians are getting mental health or substance use disorder treatment online or over the phone than in person, according to a 51视频 Health News analysis of UCLA鈥檚 latest California Health Interview Survey. But the telehealth experience isn鈥檛 always positive.
Apache tribal members are already feeling psychological and spiritual harm as the Trump administration moves to fast-track a deal to turn their sacred land of Oak Flat, Arizona, into a copper mine.
Two stories from Washington, D.C., give listeners a sense of what changes the Trump administration has been making to health policy, with 51视频 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner and Arthur Allen.
Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers.
In recent weeks, Social Security has been plagued by problems related to technology, system errors, and even the marking of living people as dead.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH leaders would ensure 鈥渢ransparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness.鈥 But their vaccine is in early stages, relies on old technology, and is just one of scores of similar efforts.
At least some workers who process public records in response to Freedom of Information Act requests have been reinstated, agency employees say.
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