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For the first time, federal rules forced insurers to publish prior authorization metrics—and the numbers confirm what patients have long experienced: denials are common, reversals are frequent, and almost no one fights back. The data opens the black box partway. It does not dismantle the barrier inside.

On May 4, 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. closed a daylong Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Institute summit on mental health and overmedicalization by announcing a federal initiative...

For a long time, I thought advocacy meant surviving the next appointment. I thought it meant learning how to explain my pain better, how to prepare for another referral visit, how to justify why I...

New Phase 3 data show a single-tablet regimen of bictegravir/lenacapavir could finally bring one-pill simplicity to long-term HIV survivors locked into complex regimens by decades of drug resistance. The science is closing the treatment gap. Will our policy systems do the same?