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Texas Democrats Swept Statewide Races. Now Comes the Hard Part of Solving Healthcare Angst.

KFF Health News Article posted: 1h 38m ago 5 views

The blue wave in the state on Nov. 3 now runs headlong into the reality of Texas politics and a compressed legislative calendar.

WHY IT MATTERS Carries implications for public health and care.

Will RFK Jr. Face Impeachment Under New Congress?

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(MedPage Today) -- On Friday, as some public health groups continued to call for the impeachment of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy's fate remained up in the air following the Democrats' overwhelming sweep in the congressional midterms...

Why it matters: Carries implications for public health and care.

Gene Therapy Under Scrutiny After Nine Tumor Reports

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(MedPage Today) -- Drugmaker Novartis acknowledged Thursday that there have been nine reports of tumors in children treated with its gene therapy onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Two of the tumor cases were...

Why it matters: Carries implications for public health and care.

STAT+: States sue Trump administration again to delay Medicaid work requirements

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The Trump administration is facing another lawsuit over its sweeping changes to Medicaid less than a week after a federal judge ruled that implementation of work requirements would cause “irreparable…

Why it matters: Carries implications for public health and care.

Trump's global health strategy is emerging. What will the Democratic Congress say?

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The Trump Administration has ushered in a fundamental shift in the U.S. approach to global health aid. How will the newly elected Democratic Congress weigh in?

Why it matters: Carries implications for public health and care.

Autism, masking, and building a more inclusive world | Letters

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Readers respond to an article by John Harris on the rise in the number of people labelled autistic over the last 20 years John Harris’s article addresses all the main issues that are being debated around autism ( ‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?, 1 November ). However, I feel it did not go far enough to broaden our understanding of the challenges experienced by autistic people who do not have a learning disability. From a young age I sensed that I was experiencing the world differently to other people. I was bullied, and worked hard to fit in. I was fortunate as structurally I had a stable life that mitigated some of the more challenging aspects of my life. Things started to get less manageable when I entered adulthood and left home. Continue reading...

Why it matters: Carries implications for public health and care.