The British Medical Association has announced a fresh round of strikes in England in the long-running pay dispute. Resident doctors will stage a five-day walkout from 17 December. This will be the 14th strike by the doctors’ union since March 2023 and is expected to cause significant disruption, particularly in hospitals. Resident doctors represent nearly…
The 2025 reconciliation law imposes significant new restrictions on states’ ability to generate Medicaid provider tax revenue, including prohibiting all states from establishing new provider taxes or from increasing existing taxes as well as reducing existing provider taxes for states that have adopted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal…
Medicaid is a major source of coverage for contraceptive care for millions of people. Many Medicaid patients rely on a range of safety net providers including Planned Parenthood clinics, community health centers, state and local health departments, and Indian Health Services for their contraceptive care. The composition of the safety net and the relative role of the different providers vary considerably from state to state. Safety net providers served over…
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images Fewer than one in 10 people who could benefit from obesity jabs like Wegovy are able to get them, warns the World Health Organization as it releases its first guidance on the drugs. With more than one billion people worldwide now obese, it is calling for more widespread and…
Access to contraception is a key element in shaping health and well-being for many women in their reproductive years. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created a minimum set of benefits for most health plans regulated by the federal government and states, requiring most private plans to cover, without any cost sharing, the full range of…
For more than 50 years, a network of public programs and providers have assisted millions of reproductive age (18 to 49) women with low incomes in the U.S. to obtain sexual and reproductive health services. Over the past decade, the landscape of reproductive health care has changed dramatically as a result of shifts in federal…
By: Isabel Mill & Oded Vanunu OpenAI Codex CLI is OpenAI’s command-line tool that brings AI model-backed reasoning into developer workflows. It can read, edit, and run code directly from the terminal, making it possible to interact with projects using natural language commands, automate tasks, and streamline day-to-day development One of its key features is…
“[Are we] going to stop crime before it happens because we’re monitoring every utterance and thought of incarcerated people?” Kendrick says. “I think this is one of many situations where the technology is way far ahead of the law.” The Secrurus spokesperson said the tool “is not focused on surveilling or targeting specific individuals, but…
Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups. As World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because some are not using condoms. Blue Sky…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 1st December, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES OpenAI has experienced a data breach resulting from a compromise at third-party analytics provider Mixpanel, which exposed limited information of some ChatGPT API clients. The leaked data includes names, email addresses, approximate…
