Progyny has joined Amazon's Health Benefits Connector as the first comprehensive women's health and family building solution, enabling eligible customers to discover and enroll in fertility, family building, and menopause benefits through the platform. The collaboration addresses a significant access challenge, as nearly 25% of U.S. adults report not understanding what benefits are available through their health plans. Amazon's Health Benefits Connector simplifies this process by connecting individuals with trusted healthcare solutions through a streamlined enrollment process.
Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell, or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state where abortions are banned with few exceptions. Louisiana law already allows women to sue doctors who perform abortions on them in the state. The bill expands who can be sued. It includes those out of the state, who may be responsible for an illegal abortion whether that be mailing, prescribing or 'coordinating the sale of' pregnancy-ending pills to someone in Louisiana.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns and seeking investigations in the wake of Guardian reporting on whistleblower claims about practices within UnitedHealth Group's nursing home partnership programs.
Federal research funding cuts pose an 'existential threat' to academic medicine that will have repercussions for patient care in the U.S., according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, highlighting what it calls significant damage already done to the nation.
U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell of Alabama and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania have introduced the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025, a bipartisan effort aimed at tackling the nation's doctor shortage by expanding Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over the next seven years.