55+ min ago  (496+ words) New data from Guttmacher's Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows just how dramatically restricting access in Florida has affected reproductive care in the state and throughout the Southeast region, forcing thousands of people to travel long distances for out-of-state care. "In…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (588+ words) For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. The calculations done by scientists at IRIS, as it was commonly known, underpin vast numbers of chemical regulations, permits…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (660+ words) This article originally appeared on KFF Health News. WASHINGTON " Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations with young…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (260+ words) For Burton, now 22, the $994 monthly benefit is lifesaving but not enough to completely support herself on her own. So, like many SSI recipients, she has continued to live with her father, who makes around $2, 000 a month as a Philadelphia sanitation…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1709+ words) Kevin Heath had hoped there would be solar panels by now on his family farm in southeastern Michigan, roughly 50 miles outside Detroit. About six years ago, he agreed to lease part of his land for a solar project. It would…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (401+ words) In the first three months of 2026, America logged roughly 1, 600 measles cases "nearly as many as the total number for all of 2025, which was by far the worst year we've seen for the highly infectious virus in decades. In fact, because…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (616+ words) The Texas Medical Board has disciplined three doctors Pro Publica previously investigated whose patients died after receiving delayed or inappropriate pregnancy care under the state's strict abortion ban. Two of the doctors failed to properly intervene as a pregnant teenager…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (554+ words) Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350, 000 people annually " but for the last two decades, there's been a robust, cheap and simple way of preventing much of it: the HPV vaccine. For nearly two decades…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (556+ words) This testing program was part of an initiative called Healthy Florida First, which aligned with Florida's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. An estimated $5 million was added to Florida's 2026-2027 budget proposal to test for contaminants and ensure safer food and…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1609+ words) Just under three years ago, the Food and Drug Administration deemed 19 peptide drugs too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies, which mix components of approved drugs to create bespoke medication for people who have trouble taking commonly available products....