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Most Insurance Covers IUDs. Hers Cost More Than $14,000.

KFF Health News – During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill. “We decided the best option for me was an IUD,” she said, referring to an intrauterine device, a long-acting, reversible type of birth control. Anderson, 25, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, asked her doctor how much it might cost. At the time, she was working in a U.S. senator’s local office and was covered under her father’s insurance through...

RFK Jr. Torches Bernie Sanders for Screaming ‘Health Care for All’ While Taking Big Pharma Cash

RED STATE – On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Robert F. Kennedy sat before yet another Senate committee to answer questions, and it went about as well as expected. When Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, he was questioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who went on a wild rant about whether he supported onesies with an anti-vax message on them. It was comedy gold. Sadly, Sanders also sits on the Senate...

FDA Approves Drug to Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects

The drug, Journavx by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, blocks pain signals to the brain, making it nonaddictive.

The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs

THE LEVER – Six years ago, Genevieve Lane was enjoying an active life in Florida when she began to forget her neighbors’ names and where she put her keys. At 76, she might have shrugged off these lapses as mere signs of aging, but when she began to have moments of confusion and occasionally got lost while out walking, her housemate and longtime friend Vicki Holmes told her about a nearby research center. There, a doctor...

Kennedy’s Fate Rests in Hands of a Small Group of Republicans

To be confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can afford to lose no more than three Republican votes if all Democrats are united in their opposition to him.

Abortion opponents praise RFK Jr., after he vows to follow Trump

Kennedy said multiple times during the hearing that he now agrees "with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy" and serves "at the pleasure of the president."

Mayo Clinic Minute: How alcohol affects your liver

Mayo Clinic News Network – Excessive alcohol use can harm the body in many ways, including an increase in the risk of various cancers. It damages liver cells, leading to inflammation, scarring and serious conditions such as cirrhosis. Dr. Andrew Keaveny, a Mayo Clinic transplant hepatologist, says heavy drinking also can lead to alcoholic hepatitis, which is becoming more common in younger people. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute "Alcohol can cause liver damage. And in some individuals who drink excessively,...

Autism community fears RFK Jr. would set back decades of progress

Advocates worry that as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undermine years of work to unlink autism and vaccines and divert precious research dollars to a discredited theory.

PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION

"Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated ... "

2024 Fatal Dog Attack Breed Identification Photographs

DogsBite.org - In 2013, we began the tradition of publishing breed identification photographs of fatally attacking dogs when available through news reports, animal control agencies, police departments, social media and public information requests. Of the 66 dog bite fatalities recorded in 2024, 56% (37) had some form of a breed identification photograph. Our nonprofit was responsible for capturing 65% of them. Pit bulls and their mixes represent 68% of the identification images collected in 2024. Of...

Trump Pauses Federal Funds, Rattling Health Agencies

White House Halts Federal Grants And Loans, Rattling Health Agencies Although the memo specifically mentioned gender-affirming care, it is unclear how many other federal programs will be affected. It does not include Medicare. Meanwhile, NIH researchers can resume their work as long as they don't violate the communications freeze, and the CDC was ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization immediately. Stat: Trump Orders Pause On Federal Grants, Loans The White House’s budget office...

Lehigh Valley is at epicenter of bird flu outbreak. Here’s what to know about health and consumer impacts

The Morning Call – A commercial poultry farm in Lehigh County has the state’s first confirmed 2025 case of bird flu in domestic poultry, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said Monday, noting the case affected a 50,000-bird chicken flock. Preliminary samples indicate the presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, and samples from the state lab have been shipped to a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab for confirmation. “While there is no risk to the...

Lay’s Potato Chips Recall as FDA Sets Highest Risk Level

NEWSWEEK – Lay's potato chips have been recalled across two states, and the FDA has set its highest risk level for the recalled chips. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled 6,344 bags of Lay's Classic Potato Chips across Oregon and Washington on December 13, and gave their risk classification on January 27. Product photo of the Lay's Classic Chips recalled in Washington and Oregon. FDA Why It Matters The chips have been classified under a Class 1...

What RFK Jr. Might Face in His Nomination Hearings This Week

Advancing American Freedom, a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, has fought Kennedy’s nomination with a major ad buy.

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