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Summary: Here is a quick look at the latest updates in American health care. To help keep moms and babies safe, some places are bringing back old-fashioned house calls. At the same time, technology is changing medicine: AI is helping patients get primary care, and it is even giving people who lost their voice boxes the ability to sound like themselves again!

However, there are big challenges, too. New rules from the Trump administration have slowed down cancer research and made going to the hospital more dangerous for immigrants without legal status. American farmers are struggling because extra Obamacare subsidies are ending, and some Republicans want to push health savings accounts instead.

In other news, a super expensive gene therapy that can cure sickle cell disease will be covered by Medicaid—but only if it actually works for the patient. Meanwhile, older adults are quitting weight-loss drugs like Ozempic faster than younger people, and you might notice your doctor looking a bit older, as more doctors are working well into their "golden years." Finally, if you need a bed in a state psychiatric hospital, you might be out of luck unless you've been charged with a crime.

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