A mom says an ‘everything bagel’ caused her to fail a drug test. The hospital reported her to child protective services anyway.
Source: CBS News A new mother from Alabama is warning pregnant patients after she says eating an “everything bagel” for breakfast before giving birth to her second child upended her family last spring. It all stemmed from the unexpected results of one urine drug test — a routine test given to thousands of maternity patients […]
How changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy in the US may affect you
Attention, Medicare Advantage enrollees: It’s a good idea to review your plans during open enrollment so you don’t get caught by surprise next year.
Changes in store for Medicare Advantage as open enrollment starts
Attention, Medicare Advantage enrollees: It’s a good idea to review your plans during open enrollment so you don’t get caught by surprise next year.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill accessibility
Source: NPR The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills. By a unanimous vote, the court said the anti-abortion doctors who brought the challenge had failed to show they had been harmed, as they do not prescribe the medication, and thus, essentially, had no […]
Florida’s abortion amendment has enough signatures to make the ballot
Source: MSNBC The proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution must get past the Florida Supreme Court, which will soon hear oral arguments in a challenge from the state’s attorney general. Abortion rights activists in Florida have collected enough signatures for a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, potentially setting […]
FDA approves first postpartum depression pill in the US
Source: CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the medication zuranolone for the treatment of postpartum depression – making it the first FDA-approved oral pill in the United States specifically for postpartum depression, a serious mental illness that can develop in about 1 in 7 new mothers after childbirth. On Friday, the FDA announced that the treatment, […]