by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Health
States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. State governments rely on such companies to...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Health
Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 30, 2026 | Health
Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher’s aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works shifts at J.Crew on the weekends to send her daughter to college. Hill and her mother, who lives with her, had been...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 30, 2026 | Health
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 28, 2026 | Health
As with many skin conditions, TSW can manifest differently with different skin colours. On white skin it glows an intense red, but on black or brown skin it can appear as deep purple, brown, or with a greyish tinge, which often makes it even harder to spot and...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 28, 2026 | Health
In England, where there are 1,821 sonographers, vacancy rates have doubled since 2019 – from 12% to 24%, their analysis found. In the south east of England, 38% of posts were vacant, with 30% vacant in the North West. Only 11% were unfilled in the North East and...
