Health + Medicine

Arizona officials cut funding for a program that provides independent oversight at group homes for people with developmental disabilities, which was created in response to a sex abuse scandal. Advocates say the decision will harm the most vulnerable Arizonans.

There were more than 2,000 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. as of last week. That’s according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is only a couple hundred cases away from the total from all of last year.

The measles outbreak connected to communities along the Arizona-Utah border has come to an end, according to public health officials.

Advocates say a bipartisan state budget proposal doesn’t include funding for a program providing independent oversight at group homes for Arizonans with developmental disabilities that was created in the wake of a sex abuse scandal.

An Orthodox Christian group is threatening to sue the city of Phoenix over a controversial new ordinance it passed last month that bans groups from providing medical care and food to the homeless in city parks — unless they have one of two permits that will be available for it per month in some parks.

As a wave of anti-vaccine sentiment sweeps the nation, more parents are choosing to forgo a shot that most babies get just after birth — a shot of vitamin K.

Prescribing abortion medications via telehealth was previously banned by a state law. But a court ruling in February voided that, and several other abortion regulations in Arizona.

The annual Kids Count Data Book ranks states in categories of health, family and community, education, and economic well-being. Arizona ranked 40th out of 50 states for overall child wellbeing.

A new initiative aimed at providing gynecologic and reproductive health care to queer individuals is launching later this year.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is suing nine health insurance providers, accusing them of colluding with an AI-driven technology platform to drive down payments to healthcare providers while inflating out-of-pocket costs for some patients.