by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Payers can and should be doing more to address health inequities, a new report by the United Hospital Fund says. The New York-based nonprofit aims for the report to serve as a road map for payers looking to do the work of elevating equity. Payers are uniquely...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Today marks the end of the public health emergency in the United States, more than three years after it was first declared to combat the novel coronavirus by unlocking powerful tools to detect and contain the emerging threat. Several core aspects of America’s...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweigh the potential risks.The 17-0 vote represents a major step forward in the decades-long...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Seventeen health systems including big names like CommonSpirit Health and Providence have signed onto a pledge that at least 10 percent of their new hires will hail from “economically disadvantaged areas” by 2027, according to a release from social determinants of...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Vermont’s Republican governor signed abortion and gender-affirming shield bills into law Wednesday that are the first in the country to explicitly include protecting access to abortion medication even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of...
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