Fighting Staff Shortages With Scholarships, California Bill Aims To Boost Mental Health Courts

A seemingly innocuous proposal to offer scholarships for mental health workers in California’s new court-ordered treatment program has spark...

Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift

Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from ...

Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Critics Call Feds’ Response Feeble and Fractured.

Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east...

Unpacking the FDA’s Non-Recall Recalls

When the Agriculture Department posted a recall of chicken nuggets that might be contaminated, it directed consumers to return them or thro...

Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed

Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in We...

California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others in regulating th...

Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems

Ballad Health, an Appalachian company with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, may soon be required to improve its qual...