March 26, 2026
(The Guardian) – Global family planning aid typically drops under Republican presidents and then rises again by 48% once Democratic presidents are elected, the research, published in BMJ Global Health, finds. For countries heavily reliant on US aid, there are … Read More
March 20, 2026
(The Guardian) – The Scottish parliament has voted against legalising assisted dying after critics and religious groups led a concerted campaign to block the measures. MSPs voted 69 to 57 to reject the proposals in a late night vote on … Read More
March 20, 2026
(BBC via MSN) – Alberta has proposed a bill that would limit the use of medically assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – in the Canadian province solely to end-of-life circumstances. In 2021, Canada expanded access to medically … Read More
March 20, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Now the top half of her head was shaved and staples ran in a ladder across it. IVs were taped to each arm, and a machine next to her bed was helping her breathe. She couldn’t speak. … Read More
March 11, 2026
(AP) – Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday signed ban on abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, generally at about six weeks’ gestation and often before women know they’re pregnant. The signing makes Wyoming the fifth state to … Read More
February 13, 2026
(AP) – Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being, a move doctors and legal experts warn will have deep ramifications for the U.S. Caribbean territory. The amendment … Read More
February 5, 2026
(The Guardian) – A physician based in California has become the first medical provider sued under a recently enacted Texas statute that empowers private individuals to file civil lawsuits against providers who mail abortion medication into the state. The case … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – Onchocerciasis is one of 21 afflictions, most of them treatable and preventable, that the World Health Organization classifies as neglected tropical diseases. Together, they affect more than a billion people, but because many are among the … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Obamacare’s open enrollment period is over, and Americans around the country are facing higher health insurance costs. But the increases have been particularly steep for one group of people. People who earn $62,600 or less — … Read More
January 29, 2026
(New York Times) – The case is the latest action taken by a state with an abortion ban against providers in states that support abortion rights. The attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, has filed a lawsuit against a Delaware … Read More
January 28, 2026
(New York Times) – Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients. Less than one month after the lunch meeting, Trump … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – More than 300 Times Opinion readers responded to a January invitation to share their experience of rising health care costs. They included a cancer patient who shifted care mid-recovery to a new insurance plan that doesn’t … Read More
January 21, 2026
(ProPublica) – Each year, hundreds of thousands of women enter pregnancy with chronic conditions that put them at an elevated risk of long-term complications and, in some cases, death.For those who live in states that have banned abortion, their options … Read More
January 20, 2026
(Straight Arrow News) – After the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the constitutional right to abortion, national abortion numbers were expected to plunge. Instead, they rose. At the center of this counterintuitive trend … Read More
January 15, 2026
(Axios) – Prosecutors in states with abortion bans are increasingly charging mostly low-income women with pregnancy-related crimes, in a test of whether fetuses and embryos have the same rights as children. Why it matters: The cases further complicate the post-Roe … Read More
January 14, 2026
(New York Times) – That number could increase significantly as more consumers are faced with higher bills brought on by expiring premium subsidies. About 1.4 million fewer people have enrolled in Obamacare coverage this year in the face of soaring … Read More
January 7, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – One float stood out among the tinsel and holiday cheer at the annual Christmas parade here: an unsightly data center with blinding industrial lights and smoke pouring out of its roof, towering menacingly over a … Read More
January 6, 2026
(The Guardian) – Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting healthcare choices Abortion will stay legal in Wyoming after the state’s supreme court struck down two near-total abortion bans on Tuesday, … Read More
January 5, 2026
(Jacobin) – In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is available even to people who aren’t suffering from terminal illnesses. In the context of austerity, this often means people are offered death rather than the material support that could alleviate their suffering. At … Read More
December 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Ms. Brosseau says mental illness has made her life unbearable. She wants a medically assisted death. Even her psychiatrists are split over whether she should have one. The exclusion was to end on March 17, 2023, … Read More
December 29, 2025
(STAT News) – The move could make it easier for health systems to adopt AI, while leaving patients vulnerable The Trump administration is proposing to remove requirements that developers of health information software disclose details on the development and testing … Read More
December 26, 2025
(AP) – Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois had approved a law allowing for medically assisted suicide, and he called for greater respect of life. Leo said he had spoken “explicitly” … Read More
December 19, 2025
(New York Times) – Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to be downgraded to a lower category of drugs, a … Read More
December 17, 2025
(The Free Press) – Under the proposed New York bill, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live would be able to access a prescribed, self-administered life-ending medication. Supporters argue that this is a compassionate … Read More
