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News Articles: Medical Treatments

Misoprostol is typically used as part of a two-drug protocol for a medication abortion. But it is also safe and effective when used alone, doctors say.

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  • Health

Here's how medication abortion works with just one drug

The Supreme Court on Monday said that telemedicine access to the abortion drug mifepristone can stay — for at least a week. But as mifepristone faces court challenges, another drug that remains available is safe and effective at ending early pregnancy.

May 04, 2026
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  • Mara Gordon,
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin,
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Samantha Pohlman, a registered nurse, performs a cosmetic treatment procedure on Christine Ruiz at Planned Parenthood - B Street in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, March 20. Planned Parenthood is expanding its services by offering cosmetic treatments like injections to expand its revenue sources.

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  • National

Trump and Congress cut funding for Planned Parenthood. Can Botox keep it afloat?

After President Trump and Congress cut certain Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in last year's budget, some clinics have started offering aesthetic services, including Botox, to stay afloat.

April 25, 2026
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By:
  • Laura Fitzgerald
Synthetic peptides are gaining popularity as a treatment, though most having not been tested for safety in humans. The government may make a change to allow compounding pharmacies to produce them.

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  • Health

The wellness world is eager for RFK Jr.'s promised move on peptides

A month ago, Health Secretary Kennedy said his agency would soon give compounding pharmacies the greenlight to make the products, which have exploded in popularity despite a lack of data.

March 31, 2026
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By:
  • Will Stone

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  • Health

As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it

After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.

March 16, 2026
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By:
  • Michal Ruprecht
People taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder, a new study shows.

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  • Science

GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next?

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

March 10, 2026
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Patients with high cholesterol often take medicine for years to manage it but a new gene-editing treatment has potential to make a difference.

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  • Health

CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study

An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease.

November 08, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Caleb Strickland, 4, has an artificial heart pump keeping him alive while he waits for a transplant. Nora Strickland, his mom, says she feels far away from the Trump administration's disputes with universities.

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  • Children's Health

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

October 09, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
A new <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jama.2025.13481?guestAccessKey=f420494d-a51d-442c-9d7c-4d14dbbe1aae&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=090425"target="_blank"   >study</a> finds that a single dose of LSD can ease generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety that affects about 1 in 10 people over the course of a year.

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  • Science

'One and done' dose of LSD keeps anxiety at bay

People with generalized anxiety disorder improved significantly after they got a single dose of LSD powerful enough to induce a psychedelic trip.

September 05, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
The Texas Legislature passed a bipartisan law aimed at clarifying the emergency exception to the state's abortion ban this spring. The law is called The Life of the Mother Act.

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  • National

New Texas law aims to save lives by clarifying the state abortion ban. Will it work?

In Texas, where abortion is banned, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, medical associations, and groups on either side of the issue worked together to clarify when abortion can be used in emergencies.

July 19, 2025
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By:
  • Olivia Aldridge
The Wisconsin Supreme Court listens to arguments during a redistricting hearing at the state Capitol, Nov. 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The court decided Wednesday, July 2, 2025, that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion.

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  • National

Wisconsin's 1849 law does not ban abortion, the state Supreme Court rules

After years of litigation following the Dobbs decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, with their liberal majority, ruled that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Maayan Silver
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

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  • National

These Democratic governors are trying to curb health care for unauthorized immigrants

After expanding state Medicaid programs to cover people in the country without legal status, Democrats are considering changes that would reduce immigrant access.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Dana Ferguson and
  • Laura Fitzgerald
A selection of eye drops line a shelf at a pharmacy in Los Angeles in December 2023.

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  • Health

AvKare recalls over-the-counter eye drops after FDA audit

Customers are encouraged to stop using several eye irritation products, including gels and artificial tears.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Towana Looney (right) and her daughter Tytian at NYU Langone Health in New York.

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  • Health

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone

An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Key guidance to industry on enhancing diversity in clinical trials of cancer drugs disappeared from the Food and Drug Administration website.

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  • Health

The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website

A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.

January 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Justice, center, points to a number on the board game in front of her.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia Tech’s 3D printer helps a Georgia girl breathe on her own

A team of Georgia Tech engineers developed a custom 3-D printed splint to support a newborn's airway, like an internal cast that dissolves as the trachea strengthens. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of only five hospitals in the nation offering this surgery.

August 29, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
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