Health

TL/DR - Georgia lawmakers have agreed on a plan to ease some aspects of the state's health care permitting law, allowing the Morehouse School of Medicine to open a central Atlanta hospital and another to open in any rural county where a hospital has been closed for over 12 months. The bill would also allow outpatient birthing centers to open…

TL/DR - The content presents a form for users to select their state, input their zip code, and select their country. The state selector includes all U.S states, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Armed Forces locations, and Canadian provinces. The country selector includes almost every country worldwide. State Alabama Zip Code Country…

TL/DR - Mississippi's Republican-led House is preparing to debate the expansion of Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents. The House Medicaid Committee has advanced a bill that would increase eligibility for Medicaid, potentially extending benefits to about 250,000 people. The proposal faces opposition from some Republicans who…

TL/DR - Black women in the US are over 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, a statistic that has largely remained the same for a decade, according to the American Cancer Society. Factors contributing to this disparity include biological differences such as aggressive forms of breast cancer, inadequate insurance coverage,…