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Urgent Care Clinics Move To Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas
When Michigan's sole abortion provider in the rural Upper Peninsula shuttered, a local urgent care clinic stepped up to keep services accessible. The model is gaining attention as traditional brick-and-mortar clinics continue to close even in blue states. Urgent care facilities, with their existing infrastructure and flexible mandates, may represent a scalable solution to growing access gaps across the country.
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What does MAHA look like these days?
The Make America Healthy Again movement is showing up in unexpected places across the health policy landscape, from rare disease research to oncology. A promising development in Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment signals potential wins when the movement focuses on scientific progress, but critics point to missed opportunities in cancer care as evidence of uneven priorities. How MAHA translates from political slogan to functional health agenda remains the defining question of this moment.
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Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes
Oxford researchers have built an AI tool capable of identifying heart failure risk up to five years before onset, achieving 86% accuracy across a study of 72,000 patients in England. The technology could give clinicians a critical window to intervene before the condition fully develops. With over 60 million people affected globally, early detection at this scale represents a significant shift in how preventive cardiac care could be delivered.
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Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records
The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management is requesting that insurers turn over detailed medical records of federal employees and retirees, including pharmacy claims and visit histories. The move raises significant privacy concerns about the government accessing sensitive health data of its own workforce. Critics warn the request could have a chilling effect on employees seeking medical care and sets a troubling precedent for government surveillance of worker health information.
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Some common IBS treatments are linked to a higher risk of death, say study
Commonly prescribed IBS medications, including antidepressants, may carry a small but measurable increased risk of death, according to a landmark Cedars-Sinai study published in Communications Medicine. The research draws on nearly two decades of electronic health records from more than 650,000 U.S. adults with IBS, making it the largest real-world analysis of its kind. The findings raise important questions about the long-term safety calculus for treatments used by millions of patients worldwide.
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