Biden launches new initiatives to reduce health care costs

The plan includes a crackdown on scam insurance plans, new guidance to prevent surprise medical bills and an effort to reduce medical debt tied to credit cards.

Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban: State constitution gives only limited protections

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's abortion ban doesn't violate the state constitution, removing a major hurdle to enforcing the ban Republicans approved last summer.

Children's Wisconsin Midtown health fair offers education, resources

Children's Wisconsin celebrated the start of summer with a free Summer Celebration Health Fair at the hospital's Midtown Clinic Saturday, June 24.

Pharmacists to prescribe birth control, Wisconsin Assembly OKs bill

Birth control could be prescribed and dispensed by pharmacists in Wisconsin under a bill that passed the state Assembly with broad bipartisan support.

Medicaid: More than 1M dropped as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls

States were prohibited from removing people from Medicaid during the pandemic — but that ban was lifted in April. Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork.

Woman declared dead knocks on coffin during her own wake in Ecuador

“After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds," the woman's son said. "My mom was wrapped in sheets and hitting the coffin..."

Marquette ASPIRE Trial: 'ExaStim' paralysis device changing lives

For more than a decade, a Hartford woman grew to accept her limitations. A crash damaged her spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down, but a new clinical trial is helping her regain her sense of freedom.

New heart transplant method could expand donor hearts by 30%

Last year, 4,111 heart transplants were performed in the U.S., a record number but not nearly enough to meet the need.

Wisconsin Republicans' abortion bill clarifies procedures that don't qualify

Wisconsin Republicans released a package of legislation Tuesday that would tweak the state's abortion ban by specifying medical procedures to save a mother's life that don't qualify as abortion.

Indiana doctor reprimanded for speaking publicly about 10-year-old girl's abortion

A medical board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t follow privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that gained attention in the national abortion debate.

Abortion providers scramble amid 'decimation' of access in US South

Providers have had to quickly determine how to comply with the pending laws amid the "decimation of abortion access across the South."

Indiana doctor who provided abortion for 10-year-old girl to face discipline hearing

The hearing comes after Indiana's attorney general accused Dr. Caitlin Bernard of violating state law by not reporting the girl’s child abuse to police and federal patient privacy laws by telling a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment.

USC doctors looking to perform world's first bladder transplant

Doctors have currently launched a clinical trial to enroll a potential participant for this historic operation, the school reported.