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About 1 in 5 of all people who had been on Medicaid in early 2023 were disenrolled at some point later that year, the survey found.

In the latest lawsuit, the groups claim the agency missed a March deadline for issuing a final rule on a menthol ban.

The HHS also issued a new set of guidelines clarifying a longstanding requirement that hospitals must obtain written informed consent as a condition for being reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid.

The measures will include the launch of a new effort at the National Institutes of Health that will direct $200 million in 2025 to fund new, interdisciplinary women’s health research.

Infirmary Health Systems and the Center for Reproductive Medicine, the targets in the wrongful death lawsuit that led to the state Supreme Court ruling, said it would not yet resume IVF treatments.

“Unborn children are ‘children’ … without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics,” Associate Justice Jay Mitchell wrote in the ruling.

No significant benefits seen for most measures of utilization, quality, outcomes.

Widening gaps seen for rural counties and socially vulnerable counties.

Proposal made under Toxic Substances Control Act; would ban manufacturing, processing, and distributing TCE for any use.

Recent research has helped raise awareness about the potential dangers of using chemical hair relaxers.