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Walgreens won’t dispense abortion pills in some states without bans, acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape.

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Bill Cassidy will ask health leaders today for input on the root problems and solutions for the health workforce shortage.

Krista spoke with Amanda Morrow, co-director of the pediatric post-Covid-19 clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute, about long Covid in kids.

Sen. Bill Cassidy said he plans to introduce a bill to address the health workforce shortage.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services denied a request to reconsider restrictive Medicare coverage of anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drugs.

As the government’s Covid-19 response winds down, the Biden administration is mulling a plan to keep vaccines, tests and treatments free<b> </b>for the uninsured into 2024.

On Wednesday, expert advisers to the FDA will consider whether the agency should greenlight an over-the-counter version of an inhaled opioid overdose antidote.

Just over half of nursing home residents and nearly 23 percent of nursing home staff have received the bivalent booster.

The Biden administration is proposing new rules that would require more transparency about the owners, managers and contractors at nursing homes.

A recently introduced bill would extend coverage under the state’s Essential Plan to undocumented people with a household income below 250 percent of the federal poverty line.