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WASHINGTON (AP) — Access to the abortion pill mifepristone will not change after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort Thursday by anti-abortion groups to roll back its availability, a win for abortion rights supporters and millions of women in states where abortion is legal.
Remaining healthy and sharp are goals for most people as they age. But one group of people — known as “SuperAgers” — is said to have this all down as they go through life, even into their later years.
Dr. Stephanie Arnold opened Seven Hills Family Medicine in downtown Richmond, Virginia two years ago.Arnold works with a small team – a registered nurse and several medical systems. As she talks through her day, she lists a diabetes follow-up, a knee pain visit, an ADHD follow-up, gender-affirming care and three procedural abortion appointments."A little bit of everything today, which is very typical for family medicine," says Arnold.Providing all sorts of care – from gender-affirming care to reproductive healthcare, including abortion – are part of the philosophy of Arnold's clinic. She started her practice a few months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.Many of the abortions provided at Seven Hills are done with medication. For decades, reproductive healthcare like this was only available at specialized clinics like Planned Parenthood. But a growing number of primary care physicians are aiming to make them more accessible.
Medical groups and supporters of abortion rights hailed the Supreme Court’s rejection of the challenge to medication abortion, but with a heavy dose of caution.
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 skin in the game.
When the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s, the military's surgeons were severely out of practice.
Black and Hispanic Americans were twice as likely as white Americans to lose Medicaid last year because of an inability to complete renewal forms during a vast trimming of the program’s rolls, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Our appendix, a thin tube positioned where our small intestine meets our large intestine, is a perplexing organ. In fact, many believe it to be rather useless, offering no real perks for our health. But when something goes wrong with your appendix, it can lead to appendicitis ― and the pain can be unbearable.