Health

Lakes and pools can be deadly for children with autism. But tailored swim lessons can save lives

By Leah Samuel, STAT

Drowning is the most common fatal injury among children with autism, so community centers and schools are offering tailored swim lessons.

WATCH: Approaching deadline, Trump's opioid commission weighs successes and setbacks

By Laura Santhanam

The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, convened for the third time. Watch the full meeting here.

Funding hangs in limbo for the nation's 1,400 community health centers

By Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News

With four days left in the government’s fiscal year, Congress has not voted on reauthorizing billions of dollars now going to community health centers and other health programs for the 2018 budget year that starts Sunday.

Consciousness partially restored in man who spent 15 years in vegetative state

By Fedor Kossakovski

Doctors generally accept that the damage from a traumatic brain injury is irreparable after a person spends 12 months in a vegetative state. New research has just turned this idea on its head.

WATCH: Senate committee holds hearing on Graham-Cassidy health care bill

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Top Republicans are adding money to their staggering effort to repeal the Obama health care law. Yet their path to succeeding in their last-gasp effort has grown narrower, perhaps impossible.

Scientists closing in on the dawn of plate tectonics

By Shannon Hall, Scientific American

The massive slabs of Earth’s crust might have started their journey more than 3.5 billion years ago.

Study suggests when mobile markets take wireless food stamps, more people buy healthy food

By Michael D. Regan

Mobile markets are often used in food deserts to supplant a lack of supermarkets in a particular area, most often in low-income neighborhoods.

HHS hints at major changes to Medicare that could mean higher costs for patients

By Erin Mershon, STAT

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is signaling it will pursue significant changes to Medicare that could put beneficiaries on the hook for higher costs. In an informal proposal on Wednesday, federal health officials hinted at several new pilot programs it…

Obamacare signup site to be shut down for 12 hours nearly every Sunday of open enrollment

By Laura Santhanam

The department has already planned to shorten open enrollment season by 45 days -- running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, 2017 for 2018 coverage.

John McCain a 'no' on Graham-Cassidy health care repeal effort

By Joshua Barajas

Republican Sen. John McCain announced his opposition Friday to the latest repeal effort to overturn Obamacare, potentially upending GOP hopes to push a new health care bill through.