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Medicaid limits access to life-saving doses of addiction care - Roll Call

Doctors worry that Medicaid limits on addiction drug dosing could drive some patients back toward the drugs they're trying to quit.

Roll Call

Trans care debate influenced by misinformation, doctors say - Roll Call

As 2024 election nears, GOP lawmakers have seized on trans health care as the go-to social issue aimed at drawing conservative voters.

Roll Call

Biggest lobbying interests buck trend with higher 2024 spending - Roll Call

Trade groups and companies responsible for this year's largest lobbying expenditures so far upped the ante in the first half of 2024.

Roll Call

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High Court, in declining to weigh conversion therapy ban, allows law to stand

In doing so, the court left standing a lower court decision that upheld the state's ban on a therapy that the American Medical Association says "is not based on medical and scientific evidence."

WEKU

Long travel distances, excessive wait times, doctor shortages—Medicare beneficiaries face hurdles to see neurologists

The prevalence of neurological and nervous system issues in people 65 and older makes the need for better neurological options for Medicare patients even more important.

Fortune

California becomes first state to ban use of ‘excited delirium’ as cause of death

State prohibits the pseudoscientific diagnosis authorities have frequently cited to justify killings at hands of law enforcement

The Guardian - US

BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many health care professionals are questioning one of the key measures that has long been used to define obesity.

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Lisa Jarvis: Goodbye, body mass index. You won’t be missed.

The scales are formally shifting on Body Mass Index, a measurement that has been the source of much scorn in recent years. The American Medical Association has now weighed in to say that doctors should look at factors beyond BMI to determine whether a patient is unhealthily obese.

Tribune News Service

The ‘war on science’ is hurting our health. These leaders are fighting back

Americans’ lack of trust in healthcare was perhaps the biggest issue plaguing leaders and healthcare professionals at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference this week.

Fortune

George McAndrews, waged legal war on behalf of chiropractors, forever changing the profession, dead at 87

“It was the greatest one-man show I ever saw in a legal case, and I’m 78 and have seen a lot of cases,” said attorney Paul Slater, a co-counsel on the case.

Chicago Sun-Times

First gay president of Chicago-based American Medical Association Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld talks about challenges he’ll face

An anesthesiologist in Milwaukee, Navy combat veteran and father of two young children, he spoke in an interview about himself, his job and the AMA’s outspokenness on big issues.

Chicago Sun-Times

The fight over the abortion pill erases years of progress on expanding drug’s reach

The latest move in the fight over the abortion pill erases years of progress in increasing access to the drug, with the leader of the country’s biggest medical body calling it a “profoundly dangerous step backwards.”

Tribune News Service

Experts warn new weight loss medications carry long-term concerns

Some doctors, psychologists and eating disorder experts worry these new medications, originally developed to treat diabetes, could become a problem long-term.

Chicago Sun-Times

Florida families with trans children file federal lawsuit to overturn ban on gender-affirming care

Parents and civil rights groups sue medical officials and Ron DeSantis’s surgeon general

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Feds move to rein in prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest.

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