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HHS Eliminates CDC Staff Who Made Sure Birth Control Is Safe for Women at Risk

Physician's Weekly

But for women with conditions that put them at higher risk of serious health complications, special care is needed. ” She eventually went to the hospital, where she was told she was “in full-blown heart failure,” she said. About six weeks after having her second baby, she said, her heart “was racing.”

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To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

Physician's Weekly

Also included was the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act , which requires hospitals that take Medicare to treat or transfer patients with medical emergencies, regardless of their insurance status — a law that’s become a focus of abortion opponents as they seek to limit access to the procedure.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% This is where the federal government must step up.