Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) is calling for advancements to efforts to improve health care access for disabled people in the U.S. In a letter obtained by HuffPost that was sent to the Department of Justice on Thursday, Pressley urged the department to quickly finalize its proposed rule to improve access to medical diagnostic equipment (MDE) … Read more
Shana Holloran and Alexander Grant have watched their child turn blue more than any parent ever should. Their young daughter, Charlotte, has epilepsy and regularly suffers from different types of seizures. On a good day, she has 20 to 50 seizures. On other days, she can have more than 150. Charlotte, also known as Charlie, … Read more
This is the third instalment in a Global News series called Code Critical, which examines the issues impacting the health-care system in Nova Scotia. Read Part 1: How a N.S. woman without a family doctor prays her family ‘doesn’t get sick’ and Part 2: Family doctors, walk-in clinics and how stretched the N.S. system is. In a province … Read more
Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is “not running to terminate” the Affordable Care Act but rather to make it “much better, stronger, and far less expensive.” That should sound familiar. It’s the same sentiment the former president expressed repeatedly in 2015, 2016 and 2017 ― right before trying to get Republicans to pass … Read more
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Speeches before joint sessions of Congress tend to be forgettable. Even ones that make an impression rarely have long-term effects on politics or policy. But there are exceptions. And as I listened to President Joe Biden give this year’s State of the … Read more
Amid Canada’s ongoing battle with prolonged emergency room wait times and staffing challenges, a new poll finds that many are willing to journey southward in pursuit of timely health care, even if it means paying out of pocket. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found that 42 per cent of respondents would go … Read more
A new report says patients across Canada see more primary health-care teams, access to their own electronic records and faster licensing of foreign-trained physicians as key ways to solve the country’s family doctor shortage crisis. Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed more than 9,000 people online and had in-person discussions with dozens more across Canada to talk about … Read more
Susie Balfour first started noticing painful lumps in her breast almost 30 years ago. But imprisoned in Mississippi, Balfour didn’t have access to much preventative or diagnostic health care. In 2021, days before she was released, a prison health care official confirmed what she had long feared: She had breast cancer. Once free, Balfour immediately … Read more
The Transgender American Veterans Association filed a lawsuit Thursday against the government seeking for it to allow veterans’ insurance to cover gender-affirming surgery for veterans. “Enough is enough,” Rebekka Eshler, president of TAVA, told NBC News on Wednesday. “How can I stand here and keep saying, ‘Just be patient,’ and not do anything when these … Read more
A study published Wednesday estimates that there have been nearly 65,000 rape-related pregnancies across the 14 states that banned abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s crumbling 18 months ago. The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of American Medicine, was led by Dr. Samuel Dickman, a Montana abortion provider and plaintiff in several … Read more
