Julie Appleby, KFF Health News When President Donald Trump unveiled his one-page outline to address health care spending, dubbed “The Great Healthcare Plan,” he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act’s role in driving up costs. “I call it the unaffordable care act,” he said. He reprised the line in his 2026 State of the Union…
“For most people, a blowout is generally safer and gentler than a flatiron,” Schlabach says. “A flatiron applies intense, direct heat, pressed on both sides of the hair, which can cause significant damage if overused.” When blowing out your hair (either using a round brush and hair dryer, a multistyler tool, or a hot-air brush),…
Experts are considering the case for routinely vaccinating more people against meningitis B in response to the fatal outbreak in Kent. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s review was announced after the health secretary, Wes Streeting, asked it to “re-examine eligibility for meningitis vaccines” for a wider range of people than those who now…
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Leaders of Jehovah’s Witnesses are modifying their prohibition on receiving blood transfusions on religious grounds, now allowing members to decide whether to allow their own blood to be drawn and stored in advance for such things as a scheduled surgery with a risk of significant blood loss. But the organization is retaining its wider prohibition…
Twenty-one-year-old Annabelle Mackay has spoken to the BBC about her experience of surviving a meningitis infection. The University of Kent law student believes she may have contracted it on 5 March at Club Chemistry, or possibly on an evening before this when she was out at a different venue. So far, there have been 29…
An ultrasound-based treatment for prostate cancer showed better safety and operative metrics versus robotic radical prostatectomy in an early analysis of a first-ever randomized trial. After 6 months of follow-up, twice as many patients treated with MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) met the composite primary safety endpoint of pad-free urinary continence and preserved erectile function…
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Calvin Tomkins, whose New Yorker profiles of contemporary artists in the 1960s and ’70s revealed the avant garde painters, sculptors and installationists being ignored by classical critics and elevated them from gritty, obscure galleries in downtown New York City into the broader American culture, died March 20. He was 100. Source: Read Full Article
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Thursday that it is investigating 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion services. HHS officials said in a news release that the department’s office for civil rights (OCR) is looking into the states for allegedly violating the federal Weldon amendment,…
