The Supreme Court tossed out a legal challenge that would have dismantled the landmark health reform bill.
Data from the CDC showed teenage girls’ hospitalizations for suspected suicide attempts shot up last year. It’s only one piece of a mental health crisis affecting young people.
The 19th spoke with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the first Black woman to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about her plans to address racial and gender-based health inequities.
Similar bans passed by other states have no legal standing, but an upcoming Supreme Court case could change that.
Justices are likely to rule next summer on whether a ban on abortions after 15 weeks is constitutional.
In the pandemic, women are abandoning health care jobs, citing burnout and decades of inequities in a system that was never designed to support them.
‘He won’t wear one if I don’t wear one’: Some parents may keep masking and taking precautions until a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for children under the age of 12.
A new analysis showed that older women, who face significant barriers to access, were less likely than older men to have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine.
The change comes as many state legislatures are pushing restrictive anti-trans medical bills.
The 19th spoke with Natalia Kanem, who heads the United Nations Population Fund, about the pandemic's impacts on reproductive health access and the broader implications if the coronavirus surge is not stopped.