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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 30, 2026

What are the potential effects of changing Medicaid work requirements on people who need healthcare support?

A federal judge on Thursday thwarted the Trump administration from enforcing a rule that would impose a strict version of work requirements for Medicaid recipients battling illness. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, sided with 25 Democrat-led states in their lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that critics […]

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🌍 Geopolitics

Oct 27, 2026

How should the U.S. balance investment in foreign biotech with national security concerns?

Rumors are swirling that the Treasury Department this week is going to propose a rule that restricts U.S. investment in the Chinese biotech sector

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 22, 2026

What should our state do to ensure nursing homes provide quality care for residents?

The Boston Globe Spotlight Team found Eli Mirlis made grim cuts to resident care while steering millions of dollars from his nursing homes’ revenue into a constellation of real estate…

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 20, 2026

How could the recent Nobel Prize in neuroscience affect future brain research and medical treatments?

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel honored for developing optogenetics

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📈 Economy

Oct 11, 2026

What are the different views on the proposed $70,000 fee for foreign students to work in the U.S. after graduation?

The Trump administration has proposed a $70,000 fee for a popular work authorization program meant to give students professional experience

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 3, 2026

How can communities and governments work together to improve responses to health outbreaks like Ebola?

Burning of a Ebola-hit transit camp sends 19,000 fleeing, illustrating the difficulties of controlling epidemic

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🏛️ Politics

Oct 2, 2026

What are the different views on allowing transgender medical care in prisons?

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons for now

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🏥 Healthcare

Sep 30, 2026

What should be done to prevent measles outbreaks and deaths in the U.S.?

Pennsylvania reports over 900 measles cases, leading a nationwide outbreak with the highest numbers in 35 years

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🏥 Healthcare

Sep 25, 2026

What impact could the new candidates for WHO leadership have on global health policies?

(Fixes typographical error in headline) GENEVA, Sept 25 (Reuters) - A fifth candidate has entered the race to lead the World Health Organization, the agency's website showed as the deadline for nominees closed overnight. • Candidates from five countries have submitted applications to replace Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of the WHO • They are: Qatar's Hanan Mohammed Al-Kuwari, Saudi Arabia's Hanan Balkhy, Belgium's HansKluge, Spain's Maria Neira and Indonesia's Budi Gunadi Sadikin

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🏥 Healthcare

Sep 25, 2026

What are the possible effects of Chris Klomp's role on drug pricing and health policy in our community?

Klomp, a behind-the-scenes HHS power player, is likely to be confirmed as second-in-command to RFK Jr

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🏥 Healthcare

Sep 24, 2026

What are the potential benefits and challenges of speeding up medical research through leadership at the FDA?

Exclusive: Heidi Overton plans to tell senators she will speed up biomedical research, working with FDA staff

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🏥 Healthcare

Sep 19, 2026

What steps should be taken to improve the response to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC?

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the fight against the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was showing “encouraging signs" but that the epidemic was "far from over". More than 7,000 cases have been reported across seven provinces as of September 11

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