Fearing deportation, immigrants are dropping Medicaid over misinformation about Trump's new policy

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 15:23

texastribune.org - When she came to Texas from India in 2015 after marrying a U.S. citizen in her home country, the 41-year-old woman said, she spoke little English and had no knowledge of life in…

Category: Politics

Planned Parenthood Advised Hollywood Production Workers

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 14:06

oann.com - The Director of Arts and Entertainment Engagement at Planned Parenthood told the Washington Post in an article published Monday that she regularly talks with many in Hollywood to steer the…

Category: World

2019 Employer Health Benefits Survey - Section 6: Worker and Employer Contributions for Premiums

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 12:19

kff.org - In 2019, premium contributions by covered workers average 18% for single coverage and 30% for family coverage.16 The average monthly worker contributions are $103 for single coverage ($1,…

Category: Business

This is how attitudes to vaccines compare around the world

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 12:15

weforum.org - Doctors around the world are witnessing a spike in the number of measles cases, despite widespread access to an effective vaccine that prevents infection and has been available since…

Category: Health

Big Ideas@Berkeley

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 10:32

bigideascontest.org - Although Maria Artunduaga, a Colombian-born translational physician and entrepreneur, says that racial and gender bias has played a major role in shaping her career, she doesn’t…

Category: Science

Australians spend $30 billion a year on out-of-pocket health costs

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 05:57

smh.com.au - The Coalition government spent $77.1 billion on health in 2017-18, up 3.4 per cent on the previous year, while it collected $308.7 billion in taxes - an increase of 12.6 per cent. Total…

Category: Business

Woman born with two vaginas and wombs is now a mom of 4

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 04:33

nypost.com - Not in the beginning, says 34-year-old Lauren Cotter, who was born with uterus didelphys, a birth defect that results in two reproductive systems in one body: a womb, cervix and vagina…

Category: Health

200+ doctors call for Australian parliamentary inquiry into gender dysphoria

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 01:29

binary.org.au - Australian professor of paediatrics and child health Dr John Whitehall is calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry into “the rapid rise of childhood gender dysphoria in Australia and the…

Hospital Kills Wrong Baby in Abortion, Woman Horrified to Discover Her Baby is Dead

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 00:16

lifenews.com - In a mistake that turned deadly, a South Korean hospital is accused of aborting the wrong unborn baby after allegedly mixing up two pregnant patients’ charts. The mother, who is not…

Category: Health

Esmo 2019 preview – Parps on parade

Tue, 09/24/2019 - 23:23

evaluate.com - With this weekend’s World Lung meeting still fresh in the mind oncology watchers will have no time to rest on their laurels. The next major conference, Esmo, is set to kick off just…

Category: Science