Senate Democrats Delay HHS Nominee Over Women鈥檚 Health Funding
Sen. Patty Murray questions Dr. Brett Giroir鈥檚 willingness to stand up for women鈥檚 health programs such as family planning services and teenage pregnancy prevention.
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S.C. Taps Private Donors To Expand In-Home Services For At-Risk Moms
The expansion of the Nurse-Family Partnership, financed initially by the federal government and several philanthropies, must meet specific goals to get state contributions. Officials hope to add 3,200 women to the program.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Medicaid Proves A Lifeline For Clients Of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
For pregnant women in the United States, Medicaid is less a safety net than a building block of the maternity care system.
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Postcard From Capitol Hill:聽Lawmakers Put Women鈥檚 Health Care In Its Place
Where women prefer to go for health care becomes a proxy for the abortion debate.
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Far More Prone To Heart Disease
Mothers who develop diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy, or whose babies are born prematurely or precariously small, often are unaware of the long-term risk. So are their doctors.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
For Millennials, Both Good And Bad News In Senate’s GOP Health Bill
Provisions in the Senate鈥檚 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 bill could help some young adults by lowering the cost of premiums but could hurt others who gained insurance through a massive expansion to Medicaid.
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Promises Made To Protect Preexisting Conditions Prove Hollow
Experts say the loopholes would allow states to bypass some protections for people with preexisting conditions.
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A Clinic Mix-Up Leaves Pregnant Woman In Dark About Zika Risk
A Washington state woman didn鈥檛 find out for months that she was likely infected with the virus that can cause serious birth defects. Clinic officials say they鈥檒l do better.
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Ear To The Door: 5 Things Being Weighed In Secret Health Bill Also Weigh It Down
No one knows what the final Senate bill will look like 鈥 not even those writing it. But here are some safe, educated guesses.
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Zika In America: One Mother’s Saga
So far, 72 affected babies have been born in the continental U.S. One young mother, infected in Mexico last year, and her infant face an uncertain future in rural Washington.
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In Texas, Abstinence-Only Programs May Contribute To Teen Pregnancies
Across the U.S., the number of teenagers having babies has hit a record low 鈥 it鈥檚 down to about 1 out of every 45 young women. That trend hasn鈥檛 extended to certain parts of Texas, however, where the teen birth rate is still nearly twice the national average.
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Planned Parenthood Funding Could Thwart GOP Efforts On Health Bill
A provision in the House bill to strip funding from organizations that provide abortions may not meet the strict rules needed to bypass the filibuster in the Senate.
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Going For $1 An Ounce: The Burgeoning Trade In Mothers鈥 Milk
As a fountain of nonprofit milk banks emerge, one woman's abundant supply can fill another's yawning demand. But critics fear that poor women will sell start selling their milk for survival, depriving their own babies of vital nutrients.
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Death By 1,000 Cuts: How Republicans Can Still Alter Your Coverage
There are many ways beyond legislative repeal for the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to unravel the Affordable Care Act.
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Missouri Rejects Federal Money In Order To Set Up Its Own Abortion Restrictions
Abortion is already heavily restricted in Missouri, but now the state is cutting more funding to organizations that provide abortions, even though it means rejecting millions of dollars from the federal government.
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Women With Coverage For IVF More Likely To Have Procedure Again, Give Birth
After four cycles of IVF, women with insurance had a 57 percent probability of giving birth while a woman without coverage had a 51 percent chance, a study in JAMA reports.
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Late Move To Dump 鈥楨ssential鈥 Benefits Could Strand Chronically Ill
Republicans seek lower cost and more choice for health insurance sold to individuals, but cutting coverage standards could leave fewer comprehensive plans, analysts say.
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Change In Texas Medicaid Payments Helps Cut Number Of Premature Births
Texas has reduced unnecessary early deliveries by 14 percent since refusing to pay doctors who performed C-sections that weren鈥檛 medically necessary.
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Americans Not Sold On Cost And Coverage Claims In GOP鈥檚 Health Bill
Nearly half of the people in this month鈥檚 Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll believe the Republican legislation will increase the number of uninsured Americans and increase coverage costs.
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Families To Pay Price If Maternity Care Coverage Is Cut By GOP
Before the health law, buying an individual policy that included coverage for pregnancy and labor was extremely difficult.
By Julie Rovner