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The holidays will be different this year. We’ll celebrate with one set of grandkids a week early, another on Christmas Day and other family members after the 25th.

Gifts will be also simpler this year as my shopping legs recover from my recent knee surgery. Some things are a necessity, however. We (as in, my husband) did get the tree up. And ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a move that could further reduce gender-affirming care for minors in Illinois, the federal government is proposing rules that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide such services.

The administration of President Donald Trump has been threatening since early this year to block federal funding for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With no hope of preventing Obamacare health insurance premium costs from soaring in two weeks, Democrats and a few Republicans turned to ways to stop the increases when Congress returns in January.

But getting any such action next month, or as long as Republicans control Congress, appears difficult.

The Republican-led House ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration proposed a sweeping set of rules Thursday designed to prevent hospitals from providing gender-affirming care to minors, a move that could have consequential implications for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

CHOP runs one of the nation’s largest clinics providing medical care ...Read more

The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of California's liberal leaders.

The latest efforts — which seek ...Read more

Hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to minors will be forced to forgo federal insurance funding under a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of an effort by the Trump administration to curtail the practice.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it will roll out a cross-agency plan to ...Read more

For the millions of Americans who buy Affordable Care Act insurance, there’s still time left to enroll for 2026. But premium increases and the expiration of enhanced tax subsidies have led to larger-than-expected costs.

Concerned shoppers, wondering if there’s anything they can do, are consulting insurance brokers or talking to ...Read more

MIAMI – Florida’s surgeon general wants to do away with all state vaccine mandates. But the first step in his plan targets four specific vaccines.

Earlier this month, the Department of Health had a meeting during which officials unveiled a proposal to drop the requirement for the chickenpox; the Hepatitis B; the Haemophilus influenzae type ...Read more

When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later.

“I was 18, healthy, in college,” she said. “And suddenly I had a chronic illness I didn’t even know about.”

Born in Florida in 1975, Wang ...Read more

If federal subsidies for marketplace health insurance plans expire at the end of the year, Idahoans on the most “vulnerable fringes” will feel the effects first, Idaho state Rep. Ilana Rubel, a Boise Democrat, said Tuesday.

But it won’t be long until the loss of those subsidies, which keep insurance premiums low for people on Affordable ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the first 90 days after the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted in January, the caseload at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s emergency room looked different from the norm.

There were 46% more visits for heart attacks than typically occurred during the same time period over the previous seven years. Visits for respiratory ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An effort to force a vote on Democrats’ proposal to extend expiring tax subsidies for three years reached the required signatures, after four Republicans signed on to the discharge petition Wednesday morning.

The discharge petition triggers a vote on a clean three-year extension of the enhanced subsidies under the Affordable ...Read more

A handful of moderate Republican lawmakers Wednesday joined congressional Democrats to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits that could avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans, even as GOP leaders bulldozed ahead with a doomed plan of their own that would allow the aid to expire.

Four GOP ...Read more

Congressional Republicans bulldozed ahead Wednesday with a doomed health bill that wouldn’t extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that could avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans on Jan. 1.

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected efforts by some Republican moderates to win a vote on an amendment that would call...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Greg heard about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and the alleged involvement of their son Nick, the news struck a painfully familiar chord.

It wasn't the violence that resonated, but rather the heartache and desperation that comes with loving a family member who suffers from an illness that the best efforts and ...Read more