http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—The government has filed a last-second appeal that will delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-monday-day-morning-after-pill-appeal.html Health Mon, 13 May 2013 09:30:01 EST news287655407 (AP)—President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill to help prevent unwanted pregnancies. But fighting that battle in court, after a new decision makes the pill available without a prescription, comes with its own set of risks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-obama-choice-morning-after-pill-limits.html Health Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:53:09 EST news284442780 (HealthDay)—The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the federal government will pay 100 percent of the costs of certain newly eligible adult Medicaid beneficiaries under the Affordable Care Act. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fed-gov-medicaid-enrollees-aca.html Health Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:30:02 EST news284281514 (HealthDay)—About 71 million Americans with private health insurance plans received at least one free preventive health service—such as a mammogram or flu shot—in 2011 and 2012 because of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-millions-free-due-health-law.html Health Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:30:01 EST news282852234 (HealthDay)—In a final rule, which will make purchasing health coverage easier for consumers, mental health and substance use benefits will be expanded to 62 million Americans, according to a report published Feb. 20 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mental-health-substance-disorder-benefits.html Health Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:30:01 EST news280765815 (HealthDay)—The Obama administration is giving states additional time to set up so-called health insurance exchanges, a key element of the 2010 health reform law designed to bring coverage to an estimated 30 million Americans who don't have insurance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-states-health-exchanges.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:40:01 EST news277477898 (HealthDay)—Half of the states in the nation have rebuffed a key provision of the Obama administration's health reform law: the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges, according to data compiled by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-states-health-exchanges_1.html Health Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:40:02 EST news275076519 (AP)—Native American military veterans will be able to access health care closer to home thanks to an agreement between the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and the Indian Health Service. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-agreement-boosts-access-american-indian.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:19:08 EST news274033114 US states will be given additional time to decide whether to put in place a key aspect of President Barack Obama's health care reform program, the administration's top health policy official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-key-deadline-obama-healthcare-reform.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:01:12 EST news272257263 In the late 1940s, U.S. researchers used Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, and soldiers as laboratory animals, infecting them with syphilis without their knowledge in order to test new treatments for the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-horribly-awry-infect-guatemalans-syphilis.html Other Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:50:49 EST news272184640 (AP)—A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including doctors and nurses, in seven cities with Medicare fraud schemes involving $429 million in false billings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-feds-people-429m-medicare-fraud.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:34:38 EST news268580057 (AP)—Computerized medical records were supposed to cut costs. Now the Obama administration is warning hospitals that might be tempted to use the technology for gaming the system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-obama-administration-hospitals-fraud.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:10:01 EST news267767762 (AP) -- The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-panel-debates-bioterrorism-children.html Other Thu, 17 May 2012 16:10:41 EST news256489835 (AP) -- The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-clock-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 15 May 2012 03:28:37 EST news256271289 (HealthDay) -- The U.S. government is giving the go-ahead for publication of two controversial studies into the H5N1 avian (bird) flu virus, a top federal health official announced Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-green-publish-controversial-bird-flu.html Medical research Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:43:47 EST news254375006 (AP) -- The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-obama-alzheimer-money.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:29:30 EST news247811335 US health authorities on Friday finalized a change that will force most insurance plans to cover contraception for women and other preventive health services at no extra cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-contraception-co-pay.html Health Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:03:09 EST news246304972 (AP) -- The top U.S. health official administered polio vaccination drops to children in New Delhi on Friday as India marked one year since its last case of the crippling disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-india-year-polio-case.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:43:17 EST news245670181 (AP) -- The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care overhaul law took effect, according to a new analysis the Obama administration is to release Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-25m-young-adults-gain-coverage.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:15:10 EST news243058456 Women's health advocates said Tuesday they will sue the US government for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of young teens by denying them over-the-counter access to emergency contraception. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-court-fray-morning-after-pill.html Medications Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:40:01 EST news242998156 (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed but said he did not steer his administration's decision to halt the over-the-counter sale of an anti-pregnancy drug to girls under 17, saying it was common sense to keep a morning-after pill away for children who may misuse it. Citing his own daughters, he said: "I think most parents would probably feel the same way." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-obama-morning-after-pill-decision-common.html Medications Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:05:41 EST news242571929 It's the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-block-otc-morning-after-pill-outrage.html Medications Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:40:01 EST news242540839 US regulators on Wednesday rejected a drug company's request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to consumers of all ages instead of by prescription to those under 17. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-restrictions-morning-after-pill-sales.html Medications Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:49:23 EST news242484543 (AP) -- The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's health overhaul law, as supporters and foes heaped criticism on the administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-white-house-waffling-long-term.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:16:55 EST news238083393 (AP) -- The Obama administration's signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty - a long-term care insurance plan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-health-overhaul-law-major-casualty.html Health Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:07:38 EST news237877620