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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
ProPublica
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July 1, 2025
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Even though about a million women a year experience a miscarriage, there is little research on complications...
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
ProPublica
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July 1, 2025
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided:...
Feds Investigate Hospitals Over Religious Exemptions From Gender-Affirming Care
KFF Health News - California
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July 1, 2025
The Trump administration has launched investigations into health care organizations in an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. One of the most recent actions by the Department of Health...
Texas Cities Encourage and Cope With Massive Growth
Governing
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July 1, 2025
Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Summer 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. Cedar Park, a small city in Texas, has a stunning new library. The $31 million edifice includes rentable community rooms, a maker’s space with...
Upton County: 19% of income comes from government transfers, ranking 63rd in Texas
West Texas News
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July 1, 2025
In 2022, Upton County ranked as the 63rd least government transfer-dependent county in Texas, with 19% of total income coming from programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and income maintenance, according to information from the...
Health Ranger Report: David Wolfe discusses health, freedom and humanity’s awakening
Natural News
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June 30, 2025
Health Ranger Report: David Wolfe discusses health, freedom and humanity’s awakening The conversation between David Wolfe and Mike Adams highlights a turning point in health freedom advocacy, celebrating RFK Jr.'s appointment and the mainstream...
Texas Enacts Comprehensive AI Governance Laws with Sector-Specific Healthcare Provisions
JD Supra - California
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June 30, 2025
Texas has taken a significant step in regulating artificial intelligence (AI) with the passage of House Bill (HB) 149 and Senate Bill (SB) 1188. Signed into law on June 22, 2025, and effective Jan. 1, 2026, HB 149 – formally titled, Texas...
Texas Joins the Fray and Enacts AI Legislation
JD Supra - California
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July 1, 2025
At a Glance Texas joins a growing number of states regulating artificial intelligence (AI). TRAIGA 2.0 places most of the compliance burdens on governmental entities and very little on private-sector businesses or employers. TRAIGA 2.0 expressly...
Abbott announces renewal of Healthy Texas Women waiver through 2030
Austin News - Texas
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July 1, 2025
Governor Greg Abbott has announced the renewal of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's (HHSC) Healthy Texas Women federal Medicaid demonstration waiver. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have approved the extension,...
Cameron Boys Win Class A Health Plan Champions Cup
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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photo by: Nick Henthorn Cameron quarterback Colson Wichterman scrambles upfield during the Dragon’s regular season finale against Pendleton County. PARKERSBURG — The WVSSAC has announced the Class A winners of The Health Plan Champions Cup,...
Business News | Oakridge Students Attend Leadership Summit in Houston
Latestly
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July 1, 2025
NewsVoir Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 1: Nord Anglia students connected at annual Summit to develop leadership skills and apply in designing creative solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Also Read | Will Jasprit Bumrah...
Christus Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas extend contract amid ongoing negotiations
KENS - Texas
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July 1, 2025
Amid ongoing negotiations, July 1 was the deadline for the two companies to come to an agreement. TYLER, Texas — Christus Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas have decided to extended their contract to Aug. 1 during current discussions. Amid...
$2.5B in Muslim Health Care Fraud Busted
FrontPage Magazine
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July 1, 2025
Much as with the previous entry, the $650 million substance abuse treatment scam allegedly run out of Pakistan, we have foreign nationals ripping off our health care system on a truly epic scale. Here’s a $703 million Pakistani scheme. Ruknuddin...
Lubbock man included in over 300 charged in national health care fraud scheme takedown
FOX34 - Texas
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July 1, 2025
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - More than 300 defendants including a Lubbock man are facing criminal charges after a national health care fraud takedown operation by the Justice Department. 46-year-old Demitrious Gilmore is accused of conspiracy to commit...
A Growing State of Oversight: How States are Continuing to Reshape (and restrict) Healthcare Transactions and Private Equity Investment in Healthcare in 2025
JD Supra - California
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July 1, 2025
State governments are increasingly introducing new laws regulating healthcare transactions in an effort to thwart the level of influence that private equity firms and other corporate investors have on healthcare providers. To date, at least 15 [1]...
States Continue to Limit Restrictive Covenants for Health Care Professionals
JD Supra - California
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July 1, 2025
At a Glance Following a trend in recent years, state legislatures continue to ban or curtail the use of non-compete provisions and other restrictive covenants in employment agreements with physicians and other health care providers. In 2025, the...
Texas A&M pitcher granted medical exemption, set to return in 2026
Daily Comet - Louisiana
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After suffering an injury that sidelined him for the majority of his senior campaign, Texas A&M baseball's right-hander Josh Stewart has been granted a medical redshirt and will return to College Station in 2026. The righty from Georgetown, Texas,...
Federal Court Vacates 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule Modifications That Supported Reproductive Healthcare Privacy: What Regulated Entities Need to Know
JD Supra - California
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July 1, 2025
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order in Purl v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, No. 2:24-CV-228-Z (N.D. Tex. 2025) (the June 18 Order) that vacated recent modifications...
Federal Court Strikes Down HIPAA Reproductive Health Privacy Rule – What it Means for Health Plan Compliance
JD Supra - California
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June 30, 2025
In a landmark decision, a federal district court in Texas struck down nearly all of the 2024 amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, known as the Reproductive Health Privacy Rule (the “Rule”), ruling that the Department of Health and Human Services...
AI regulation Texas-style: The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act
JD Supra - California
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July 1, 2025
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), which was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 22, 2025, and is effective January 1, 2026, establishes a framework for regulating the responsible use of artificial...