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After her primary care doctor retired in 2020, Anne Withrow, a trans woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sought care at Truman Health Services, a clinic specializing in transgender health care at the University of New Mexico. “They said, ‘We have a waiting list.’ A year later they still had a waiting list,” she said. She was eventually seen at a local community-based health center instead. (CECILIA NOWELL FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Transgender refugees flock to New Mexico

Cecilia Nowell - KFF Health News
Governor of California Gavin Newsom attends a press conference in Beijing on October 25, 2023. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)

California expands paid sick days

Don Thompson
Woman looking through bills and receipts (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

Many workplaces lack abortion access

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Jodi Bobbitt is the only school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia. In a previous school nursing job, she split her time between two school buildings — some years three. Now she has only one campus to care for. (Photo courtesy of Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News)

A third of schools don’t have a nurse

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
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A young woman holding a pregnancy test (Getty Images/Ekaterina Goncharova)

Drop in teen births is slowing

Catherine Sweeney - KFF Health News
Nurse standing by elderly woman sitting on wheelchair (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Nursing homes still waiting for vaccines

Jordan Rau, Tony Leys - KFF Health News
Doctor walking through hospital corridor (Getty Images/Johner Images)

Abortion patients flee to Illinois

Kristen Schorsch - KFF Health News
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC recommends new COVID boosters

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
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In this photo illustration, Chat GPT logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Artifical Intelligence (AI) symbols in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dr. Google meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

Andrew Leonard - KFF Health News
U.S. Capitol (Getty Images/Erik Pronske Photography)

Republicans move to slash CDC budget

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Baby sleeping in their crib (Getty Images/stock_colors)

Babies should sleep alone, not with toys

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price under extreme heat

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
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Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

When AI decides what pain meds you get

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the lowering of drug pricing in the East Room of the White House on August 29, 2023 in Washington DC, United States. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

About the new drug pricing negotiations

Arthur Allen, Rachana Pradhan, David Hilzenrath - KFF Health News
An abortion rights demonstrator holds a sign near the US Capitol during the annual Women's March to support Women's Rights in Washington, DC, October 8, 2022. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Prepping for college under abortion bans

April Dembosky - KFF Health News
Deborah Blum holds a photo of her teen, Esther Iris, at home in Los Angeles. Blum and her husband, Warren, lost Esther Iris to suicide in 2021. When it came time to write the death notice, Deborah Blum was open and specific about the mental health struggles that led to her child’s death. (LAUREN JUSTICE FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Should we mention suicide in obituaries?

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
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Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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Big Pharma’s playbook for expensive meds

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Clinical research to develop a possible cure for Alzheimer's and dementia in the lab. (TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES)

New dementia drug raises hopes and fears

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Montana State Capitol (Getty Images/powerofforever)

Montana GOP ignores voters on abortion

Mike Dennison - KFF Health News
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Samantha Casiano (C) speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse on July 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas. A Texas state court will hear arguments from both sides in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of thirteen Texas women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas trial changed abortion story

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Neurology research, concept (Getty Images/TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Kristin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. These days she drives across the border to work in rural Minnesota. “I want to practice medicine here,” she says, “but first we have to get rid of this law.” (Sarah Varney/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

1849 law restricting women's health care

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf attends a hearing of U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States, on April 28, 2022. (Ting Shen/Xinhua via Getty Images)

FDA head's misinformation battle fizzles

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
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