A record number of people in England were diagnosed with gonorrhoea last year, annual UK Health Security Agency figures show, external. Diagnoses rose 7.5% – from 79,268 in 2022 to 85,223 in 2023. Syphilis, meanwhile, rose 9.4% – from 8,693 to 9,513, the highest number since 1948 – with more heterosexual men and women becoming […]
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Progressive abortion rights activists want to go much further in advancing abortion protections, and are pushing Democrats nationally and at the state level not to put any limits on the procedure. As abortion rights supporters increasingly look to ballot initiatives in red and purple states, there are internal divisions over what limits, if any, they […]
A bipartisan Senate bill from Health Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) would provide a significant funding increase for community health centers and other primary care programs in an effort to boost a shortage of health workers. Funding for community health centers expires at the end of September, so the timing […]
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina say they have reached an agreement on expanding Medicaid in the state. The deal enacted would remove North Carolina from the small list of states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. North Carolina is one of 11 states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage since the […]
The Biden administration’s efforts to loosen access to medication abortion pills are running into a headwall of opposition in dozens of states, threatening to put the drugs out of reach for many patients. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month said it will allow U.S. retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills directly to […]
A mother has spoken of the moment she saw her two-year-old daughter’s heart rate reach 280 beats per minute before she was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition. Evelyn, from Mountsorrel in Leicestershire, has Brugada syndrome – a condition that affects the way electrical signals pass through the heart. She has since been fitted with […]
Feb. 2, 2022 — Dejuan Patterson was returning home from work one night when he was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head. Seventeen years old, he was left to die. Although doctors saved his life, the Baltimore native, who’s now 33, questions the treatment he received from the hospital. He had surgery and […]
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