<p>Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban. But Experts Fear Confusion Would Persist.<br>— </p><p>Following ProPublica’s reporting, Republicans acknowledged women were denied care because medical providers were unsure what Texas’ abortion ban allowed. But the new legislation doesn’t remove what doctors say are the biggest impediments to care.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-senate-abortion-ban-legislation-medical-exceptions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-senate-abortion-ban-legislation-medical-exceptions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-senate-abortion-ban-legislation-medical-exceptions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a></p>
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<p>The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.</p><p>In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/dallas/" rel="tag">#Dallas</a> <a href="/tags/houston/" rel="tag">#Houston</a></p>
<p>When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rev</span><span class="invisible">limid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/pharma/" rel="tag">#Pharma</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a></p>
<p>One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012.<br> <br>United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p><p><a href="https://propub.li/49ZkOAh" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/49ZkOAh</a></p>
<p>One father who was acquitted of causing his son’s death said that Dr. Nancy Harper’s abuse diagnosis attached a stigma to him, caused him and his wife PTSD and robbed them of the chance to say a proper goodbye to their son.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/chi</span><span class="invisible">ld-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/pediatrics/" rel="tag">#Pediatrics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a></p>
<p>Healthcare and related research need open spaces to collaborate now more than ever before.</p><p>That's why I'm glad to see <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@nodebb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nodebb</span></a></span> building a community that caters to this need. A federated forum is the perfect template for this kind of discussion.</p><p><a href="https://postcall.pub" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>postcall.pub</a></p><p><a href="/tags/nursepractitioners/" rel="tag">#NursePractitioners</a> <a href="/tags/physicianassistant/" rel="tag">#PhysicianAssistant</a> <a href="/tags/nurse/" rel="tag">#Nurse</a> <a href="/tags/physician/" rel="tag">#Physician</a> <a href="/tags/medical/" rel="tag">#Medical</a> <a href="/tags/medicalresearch/" rel="tag">#MedicalResearch</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a></p>
<p>Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony<br>---</p><p>Dissenting from the court's majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner's reversal "calls into doubt the foundation of the trial."<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nashville/" rel="tag">#Nashville</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/courts/" rel="tag">#Courts</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a></p>
<p>Decades after patients first warned Columbia University that one of its doctors sexually abused them, the school is acknowledging a culture of silence that allowed the abuse to continue and some school administrators are finally facing consequences.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-robert-hadden-obgyn-sexual-abuse-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-robert-hadden-obgyn-sexual-abuse-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/col</span><span class="invisible">umbia-university-robert-hadden-obgyn-sexual-abuse-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/columbia/" rel="tag">#Columbia</a> <a href="/tags/university/" rel="tag">#University</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/sexualabuse/" rel="tag">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/highered/" rel="tag">#HigherEd</a></p>
<p>Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill<br>---</p><p>Three individuals, along with the group accused of supplying the peptides, were fined between $5,000 and $10,000 for their involvement in an incident at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival in Las Vegas last summer.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/raadfest-peptide-injections-nevada-fines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/raadfest-peptide-injections-nevada-fines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/raa</span><span class="invisible">dfest-peptide-injections-nevada-fines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nevada/" rel="tag">#Nevada</a> <a href="/tags/lasvegas/" rel="tag">#LasVegas</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/peptide/" rel="tag">#Peptide</a></p>
<p>They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.<br>---</p><p>Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/flo</span><span class="invisible">rida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/pregnancy/" rel="tag">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/courts/" rel="tag">#Courts</a> <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#Legal</a></p>