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Supreme Court Lets Idaho Enforce Trans-Care Ban for Now

The US Supreme Court let Idaho enforce a ban on providing gender-transition care for minors, as the justices stepped into a brewing culture-war battle over transgender rights.

UnitedHealth CEO Defends Change Healthcare Deal After Hack

UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018e-e7b2-d583-afbf-e7feaa930001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Andrew Witty said the cyberattack that interrupted payments throughout the health-care system for weeks would have been harder to recover from if UnitedHealth didn’t own the company that hackers targeted.

HHS Asks Congress for Funds to Fight Medicare, Medicaid Fraud

The Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general told lawmakers on Tuesday that her office declines investigating “300 to 400 viable fraud cases” involving Medicare and Medicaid each year “because we don’t have the agents to work them.”

Cigar Groups Urge D.C. Circuit to Back Tossing FDA Regulation

Leading cigar trade associations urged a federal appeals court to affirm a lower court decision that vacated the FDA’s rule regulating premium cigars.

Judge Blocks Ohio Law Restricting Minors’ Transgender Care

An Ohio judge blocked a GOP-passed state law that, among other things, restricts medical care for transgender minors, writing that those challenging it are likely to succeed in proving that it’s unconstitutional.

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HHS Asks Congress for Funds to Fight Medicare, Medicaid Fraud

The Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general told lawmakers on Tuesday that her office declines investigating “300 to 400 viable fraud cases” involving Medicare and Medicaid each year “because we don’t have the agents to work them.”

NYC Fire Department Nixes Paramedic’s Event Trademark Injunction

The New York City Fire Department can use the phrase “Medical Special Operations Conference” because the weakness of the descriptive trademark held by one of its paramedics made his lawsuit unlikely to succeed, a Second Circuit panel said as it voided a preliminary injunction Tuesday.

Beyond Abortion: The Fight Over Fetal Personhood Is Here

When do legal rights begin, at birth or before that? This video looks at the fetal personhood movement, and what it could mean for the future of abortion. We explore its history and the constitutional argument underpinning it.

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