Who Gets Lifesaving Care? Tennessee Changes Rules After Federal Complaint
Health officials on Friday announced sweeping changes to guidelines in Tennessee on who would get lifesaving treatments, and who would not, if resources fell dramatically...
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act — a move that, if successful, would bring...
Coronavirus Attacks the Lungs. A Federal Agency Just Halted Funding for New Lung Treatments.
When the coronavirus kills, it attacks the lungs, filling them with fluid and robbing the body of oxygen. In chest X-rays, clear lungs turn white,...
Trump Hydroxychloroquine Push Secured Millions of Likely Useless Coronavirus Pills
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s abrupt decision this week to revoke an emergency waiver for two malaria drugs promoted by President Trump as...
Health Care Advocates Push Back Against Trump’s Erasure of Transgender Rights
Health advocates representing American hospitals, medical groups, insurers and civil rights associations condemned the Trump administration on Saturday for rolling back protections for transgender patients,...
Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that will erase protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance...
Trump Narrows Search for Coronavirus Vaccine to Five Firms
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has selected five companies as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, senior officials said, a...
The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong?
WASHINGTON — Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers of a deadly virus who had been...
We Need a Voice for Public Health in the President’s Cabinet
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed crucial shortcomings in our public health system. Plenty of experts said a pandemic was coming, but that didn’t affect a...
Trump Administration Coronavirus Testing Strategy Draws Concerns: ‘This Isn’t the Hunger Games’
The Trump administration’s new testing strategy, released Sunday to Congress, holds individual states responsible for planning and carrying out all coronavirus testing, while planning to...