Fluoride bans and proposed Medicaid cuts are worrying dentists.
Alana Semuels
Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.
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A new study finds that state-based Medicaid expansions reduce people's risk of death.
Despite focusing on finding a cause, the Trump Administration has cut many autism programs.
Cuts to federal health institutions could alter newborn hearing and rare disease screening programs.
TIME spoke to Horacio Rozanski about government inefficiency and some of his ideas to fix it.
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