#Healthcare Access

Articles (19)

• 🇺🇸 Lilly’s weight loss pill Foundayo now available in U.S. — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Pharmaceuticals, #Market Competition
• 🇺🇸 She paid into Medicare for years. Trump's immigration policy will end her coverage — 06/04/2026 [USA]

  Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immi...

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇬🇧 ‘Profit prioritised over welfare’: UK’s premier exotic animal hospital to close — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Pet owners fear there is no viable alternative service after Great Western Exotics owner deems business unviable</p><p>On a nondescript industrial estate on the outskirts of Swindon, visitors may h...

  Related: #Animal Welfare
• 🇺🇸 Seek out top doctors, even if they’re out of state. It could save your life — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  'Yes, California ranks high in the rapidly growing field of cancer treatment, but sometimes, whether in our state or across the country, physicians might not be aware of the latest technology,' writes...

  Related: #Medical Travel
• 🇺🇸 Handcuffs, Tents and Pleas for Medical Care: Pregnant in ICE Detention — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated.

  Related: #Immigration Detention
• 🇺🇸 Being insured in America is not the same as having access to care — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Privilege in healthcare is shaped by geography, timing and a patient’s ability to navigate an unforgiving system while in crisis.

  Related: #Insurance Limitations
• 🇬🇧 Millions of Americans are about to lose access to birth control. Why? | Moira Donegan — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Untold numbers will get sick as a result. Clinics are scrambling, and no one seems to be able to explain why this is happening</p><p></p><p>They’re calling it a funding cliff for sexual health in A...

  Related: #Reproductive Rights
• 🇺🇸 Rafah crossing closure leaves Gaza patients trapped without treatment — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Thousands face worsening illness after closure of key crossing halts medical evacuations.

  Related: #Humanitarian Crisis
• 🇬🇧 People turn to private health care to beat NHS waits, says watchdog — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The patient watchdog warns of two-tier service as polling shows numbers paying for care is on the rise.

  Related: #Public vs Private
• 🇺🇸 Pregnant migrant girls held at Texas center criticized for inadequate care — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Since July, the Trump administration has been sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in Texas. Some of the administration's own chil...

  Related: #Migrant Detention
• 🇬🇧 Patients face long journeys for medicines as pharmacies cut weekend hours — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>More than 20% of weekend availability lost in England since 2022, forcing some to turn to A&amp;E, says national association</p><p>People who need to obtain medication at the weekend are having to ...

  Related: #Pharmacy Services
• 🇺🇸 GOP senator moves to revoke abortion pill approval — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story GOP senator moves to revoke abortion pill approval Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a bill on Wednesday to re...

  Related: #Abortion Policy, #Political Legislation
• 🇺🇸 "I was fighting to survive": Patients still struggle with preauthorization hurdles — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Last summer, the Trump administration announced a voluntary pledge by health insurers to reform prior authorization, but patient advocates and medical providers remain skeptical.

  Related: #Insurance Bureaucracy
• 🇺🇸 Why the &apos;mad scramble&apos; to fill hormone therapy prescriptions for menopause — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

  Related: #Menopause Treatment
• 🇺🇸 After CDC vaccine changes, states push to keep childhood shots free, accessible — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  As the Trump administration shakes up recommendations for childhood vaccines, some states are moving to ensure vaccines remain free and health care workers are protected from lawsuits.

  Related: #Vaccine Policy, #State vs Federal Authority
• 🇺🇸 Lawsuit alleges insurance company provider list is a “Ghost Network” — 24/02/2026 [USA]

  NBC News’ Kate Snow reports in our series “The Cost of Denial” on a lawsuit against a major insurance company alleging its list of mental health providers amounts to a ghost network where providers ar...

  Related: #Insurance Practices, #Mental Health
• 🇺🇸 After a year in Mexico, recovery has stalled for U.S. citizen girl with rare brain tumor, deported mother says — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  An 11-year-old U.S. citizen girl’s treatment for a rare brain tumor was interrupted when her parents were deported to Mexico.

  Related: #Immigration, #Family Separation, #Medical Emergency
• 🇺🇸 Their Transgender Child’s Health Care Had Ended. What Now? — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  In many ways, the parents whose adolescents had been receiving treatment at NYU Langone Health had been expecting this call. Still, they were stunned.

  Related: #Transgender Rights, #Medical Policy Changes, #Patient Care Continuity
• 🇬🇧 ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy — 12/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation</p><p>On a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23...

  Related: #Mental Health, #Technology