Hospitals' operating margins are moving back into positive territory as patients flock to outpatient clinics and labor costs start to decline, a new Kaufman Hall report finds.
Why it matters: It's another sign the industry's fortunes are improving post-pandemic, which could bolster congressional efforts to change the way Medicare pays health systems.
Federal funding to train new pediatricians — a bipartisan cause since the 1990s — is getting tangled up in the highly charged debate over gender-affirming care.
Why it matters: Children's hospitals across the country could lose access to hundreds of millions of dollars for training new doctors if they provide gender-affirming care, under a bill introduced this month by Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
Reproductive rights advocatesknow a new federal bill seeking to expand abortion access will face an uphill fight in Congress, but they hope it will spring communities of color to action.
Driving the news: The Abortion Justice Act, which calls for increased investments in reproductive care with the aim to better serve immigrants, people of color, and people who identify as LGBTQ+, was introduced Thursday by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.)
Racial disparities in food insecurity persist among low-income households that don't participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but not among those that do, according to a new study.
Why it matters: Food insecurity is considered a critical public health threat, and the new evidence suggests that SNAP can be an effective tool in minimizing inequities created by a lack of access to nutritious foods.
Slower speeds on major arterial, or feeder, roads could go a long way toward reducing the nationwide scourge of rising pedestrian deaths, a new study suggests.
Why it matters: Cars are safer than ever for passengers thanks to new assisted-driving technologies, but people outside of vehicles are increasingly being hit and killed.
Driving the news: Trump over the weekend said that the federal government had a "vital role" in opposing abortion, but wouldn't elaborate on what federal restrictions he'd support — a guarded stance for someone who's accustomed to defining the terms of intra-party debates.
Eli Lilly on Monday said its experimental weight loss drug retatrutide helped people lose as much as 24% of their weight over 48 weeks — the biggest reduction reported to date in clinical trials of obesity treatments.
Malaria has been spread by mosquitos locally in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years, per a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alert issued Monday.
Driving the news: Four people in Sarasota County, Florida, and a person in Cameron County, Texas, contracted the potentially deadly disease over a period from late May to late June through local transmission, according to the CDC. "All patients have received treatment and are improving," per a CDC statement.
Former NIAID director Anthony Fauci will be joining the faculty at Georgetown University on July 1, the university announced Monday.
The big picture: Fauci's move to the university's School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy comes after he stepped down from the NIH, where he served the government for over 50 years and advised seven presidents on health crises ranging from Ebola to COVID-19.
