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Also in this week's roundup: Some states raise benefits despite Medicaid unwinding.

Also this week: Has the much-reported rise in U.S. maternal mortality been exaggerated?

A new study finds that providing low-income people with $400 a month in no-strings cash resulted in fewer visits to the emergency department.

Heat wave endangers migrants, prisoners of color

Fourteen states now have total or near-total bans. Yet the recorded number and rate of abortions is the highest it’s been in a decade.

Deaths of despair among Black people tripled from 2015-2022, surpassing white rates. Also this week: Efforts to reduce medical debt and Pew generates controversy in survey on Black Americans’ views on health care.

Also this week: Advocates urge changes to tissue donation rules for gay men, and families of color struggle to get cystic fibrosis diagnoses for newborns.

Also this week: Cancer inequities narrow, but more work is needed; and disabled people lose services during Medicaid unwinding.

This week: Task force advises mammograms at 40 for women; rural living raises death risk; HHS fights disability discrimination and courts support LGBTQ+ rights.

Also this week: Social and economic factors take more than a decade off Native American life expectancy.