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Forever chemicals, or PFAS, exist in many household items such as waterproof clothing and cookware. Source link

Simon Jack,Business editor, Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Rachel Clun,Business reporter AFP via Getty Images The UK and the US have agreed a deal to keep tariffs on UK pharmaceutical shipments into America at zero. Under the agreement the UK will pay more for medicines through the NHS in return for a guarantee that US import taxes…

Note: Originally published on October 2, 2024, this resource is updated as needed, most recently on December 1, 2025, to reflect additional developments. There have or will be several resource mobilization efforts for multilateral health organizations in 2024 and 2025. These include: the Pandemic Fund’s first pledging event; the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first investment…

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…