Adult day services provide stimulation for older Americans, and respite for full-time caregivers
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Sally White helps her husband of 46 years get dressed, fed and on the bus for the short ride from...
Black Americans are underrepresented in residential care communities, AP/CNHI News analysis finds
Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis.Her closest family lived 40 miles...
Texas health department appoints anti-abortion OB-GYN to maternal mortality committee
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths as doctors have been...
A Minnesota city will rewrite an anti-crime law seen as harming mentally ill residents
A Minnesota city has agreed not to disclose private medical information about renters with mental health issues and to pay $175,000 to resolve a...
South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Tuesday signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.When the ink...
New York’s high court upholds requiring insurance to cover medically necessary abortions
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York can continue to require companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions, the state’s highest court...
Gene Pratter, federal judge overseeing Ozempic and Mounjaro lawsuits, dies at 75
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gene E. K. Pratter, a federal judge who oversaw numerous high-profile cases during her lengthy career and was currently overseeing lawsuits...
Victims of UK’s infected blood scandal to start receiving final compensation payments this year
LONDON (AP) — Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood...
Nevada abortion-rights measure has enough signatures for November ballot, supporters say
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Abortion access advocates in Nevada said Monday that they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to...
Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood and covering up the...
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood...