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Older Americans Act reauthorization in limbo: What to know

Association of Health Care Journalists

We are very proud that the Senate came together Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to expand and strengthen the Older Americans Act over the next five years, said Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ranking member Bill Cassidy, (R-LA) in a joint statement. However, on Dec.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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“Health Care” vs. “Healthcare” Signals Change Greater Than Grammar

The Health Care Blog

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The New Yorker House Style Joins The Internet Age announced the magazines daily newsletter under the byline of Andrew Boynton, whose appropriately old-fashioned title was Head of Copy. But what about health care vs. healthcare? Health care is our style, a spokesperson wrote me in an email.

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Slashed Federal Funding Cancels Vaccine Clinics Amid Measles Surge

KFF Health News

billion in covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March. surgeon general Jerome Adams told KFF Health News. . surgeon general Jerome Adams told KFF Health News. More than 500 cases of measles so far in a Texas outbreak have led to 57 hospitalizations and the deaths of two school-age children.

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Trump administration health policies may target ultra-processed foods

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. Nominees for top health agencies are taking aim at ultra-processed foods that account for an estimated 70% of the nations food supply. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. Kennedy Jr.,

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.

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Trump, GOP expected to undo Biden's divisive nursing home rule

The Hill

But consumer advocates and public health experts who have fought to protect the rule fear repealing it will harm residents and long-term care facility workers alike. ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said in statement after co-sponsoring the Senate measure introduced by Sens.