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Covered California Premiums Rise Again as Uninsured Californians Under 65 Are Projected to Nearly Double by 2030
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (958+ words) California is heading toward a sharp rise in residents without health insurance, and the head of the state's marketplace is describing the moment in blunt terms. "It's triage," Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman told KFF Health News in a…...
Eight Years of Thigh Pain Ended After a Scan Ordered for Something Else Found the Cause
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (850+ words) The pain changed how the patient moved. Walking shifted to accommodate it, and ordinary daily activities became difficult. Then a scan performed for a completely unrelated health problem found the answer by accident. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, better known…...
Federal Regulators Bar Eleven Medical Equipment Suppliers That Billed Medicare for Beneficiaries Who Had Already Died
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1028+ words) For families, that detail is the part worth pausing on. Claims filed under a dead relative's Medicare number are not an abstract accounting problem. They generate real paperwork, land in real statements, and are frequently discovered by an adult child…...
Troy Kept Its Birthing Center After a Public Campaign, but Hundreds of Maternity Units Have Closed
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1040+ words) Troy, New York, kept the last birthing center in Rensselaer County. Trinity Health, the Michigan-based system that owns Samaritan Hospital, reversed its closure plan nearly a year after announcing it, following a campaign that pulled together the city's Republican mayor,…...
Many Cecil County Families Face Hourlong Drives to Give Birth After the County's Only Maternity Unit Closed
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (749+ words) Expectant families in Cecil County, Maryland, have had no hospital in the county where they can give birth since June 30, when ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elkton closed its Family Birth Center. More than two months later, county leaders say a…...
Gender Gap in Suicide Deaths Among U.S. Children Aged 10 to 14 Has Nearly Closed in Federal Data
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (680+ words) Suicide rates among U.S. children aged 10 to 14 were nearly identical for girls and boys in 2024, according to an analysis of federal mortality data published this week in JAMA Pediatrics. The rate stood at 2.38 per 100,000 for boys and 2.28 per 100,000 for girls, a…...
Nearly 200 Women Died After Ectopic Pregnancies Since 2020 and No Federal Agency Has Publicly Responded
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (935+ words) Almost 200 women in the United States died after an ectopic pregnancy between 2020 and 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years, according to a ProPublica analysis of federal death records published this week. No federal health agency has publicly acknowledged…...
Hospitals and Insurers Are Buying Up Doctors' Practices, and Patients Are Landing in Pricier Care Settings
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (725+ words) An Ohio woman scheduled for a minor gynecological procedure was told the day before that her doctor could no longer perform it in his office. A hospital system had bought the practice the previous year and required the procedure to…...
A Patient Accidentally Received 12.5 Grams of a Painkiller Banned in the US and Never Got Sick
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (652+ words) A patient at a German university hospital was accidentally given 12.5 grams of dipyrone in a single oral dose, roughly 132 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. That is several times the maximum amount an adult is meant to receive across an…...
Fresenius Logged Leaking Dialysis Bags as Property Damage and Waited Eight Months Before Recalling the Affected Lots
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (789+ words) The company opened an investigation in August 2025 after a trend of complaints about leaking bags of DELFLEX Dextrose Peritoneal Dialysis Solution. That review eventually counted 35 complaints covering about 156 bags from multiple batches. No recall followed at that point. Agency investigators…...