From the Affordable Care Act to Medicaid expansion, news about health care is constantly changing.
From the Affordable Care Act to Medicaid expansion, news about health care is constantly changing. Stay up to date with the latest health care news and legislation with our comprehensive coverage.
Photo credit: iStock.com/ktsimage 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and LivingDNA are just a few genetic or ancestry testing options on the consumer market. It has become big business too and is projected to generate a $4.2 billion market [...]
Photo credit: iStock.com/designer491 Fentanyl test strips are essentially a drug testing technology, initially developed for urinalysis, but can be effective at detecting fentanyl and fentanyl-analogs in samples of drugs. Lawmakers around the country are looking [...]
Photo credit: iStock.com/Moussa81 Recent years have seen a rise in the use of flavored tobacco products. According to the American Lung Association, while the smoking rate among adults has decreased from 21.6% in 2003 to [...]
Photo credit: iStock.com/Mikhail Sokolov While much attention is focused on states and the federal government’s efforts to legalize recreational marijuana, there is a new form of thus far unregulated tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) trending—delta-8. Google searches for [...]
Photo credit: iStock.com/zimmytws In early May, the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization showed that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court intended to invalidate the holding [...]
Photo credit: iStock.com/gnagel Following the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on overturning Roe v. Wade, states may soon be able to increase regulation of abortion and have been passing myriad abortion legislation. At issue before [...]
Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image source by KaraSuva from Pixabay On November 19, 2021, the House passed a $2 trillion reconciliation bill—the Build Back Better Act—to implement key elements of President Joe Biden’s economic [...]
Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image source by by Tumisu from Pixabay Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased push for patients to meet virtually with their providers and to allow for certain [...]
Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by Bob Williams & Steve Buissinne from Pixabay The opioid epidemic is not a new problem in the United States. In fact, the amount of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled since [...]
Map created by Peter Brath with mapchart.net The Biden administration has publicly announced that it does not intend to implement a vaccine passport system nationally. Nevertheless, many states have taken action on their own to [...]
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