Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation that restricts the disclosure of abortion-related medical records to out-of-state entities. The Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act, signed June 24, takes effect July 1, 2027. The law requires information related to abortion services…

HCA Healthcare’s St. David’s South Austin (Texas) Medical Center has closed select areas of the hospital, including the kitchen, after discovering what it called “pest activity” during a renovation project. On June 24, the Austin-American Statesman reported receiving an anonymous…

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa HHS secured approximately $49.5 million in federal funding to expand physician residency training programs across all of the state’s 13 teaching hospitals. The expansion was approved by CMS on June 5 to support the…

Bentonville, Ark.-based Heartland Whole Health Institute has launched a statewide Graduate Medical Education Technical Assistance Center aimed at improving access to care in rural and underserved communities. Four things to know: 1. The institute, founded in 2019 by philanthropist and…

Alaska has become the sixth state to formally replace “physician assistant” with “physician associate” in state statute after the state legislature voted June 19 to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of House Bill 195. The veto override passed 43-17. The…

On June 25, nearly 500 nurses will converge on Capitol Hill for the American Nurses Association’s annual Hill Day, pushing Congress to reverse a Department of Education rule set to take effect July 1 that excludes advanced nursing from the…

The overall cancer death rate has fallen 35% since 1991, according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s “Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2026.” The improved cancer survival rate has contributed to a cancer survivor population of more than 18.6 million,…

Nurses enrolled in school or who held graduate degrees were more likely to leave their roles than other nurses, according to a new study. The study, published June 5 in Health Affairs Scholar, analyzed the latest National Sample Survey of…

A COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness study that was blocked from the CDC’s flagship journal was published June 23 in JAMA Network Open. Five things to know: 1. The study found the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine reduced the likelihood of emergency department and…

Nearly 9.6 million people, or 4% of U.S. adults, have traveled outside the country for dental care, primarily seeking lower cost dental treatment, according to a new report from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. CareQuest released its “State of Oral Health…