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A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans want the federal government to prioritize reproductive rights and abortion care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Arizona is in the midst of a surge in Alzheimer’s patients that is rising at the fastest rate in the nation, a crisis advocates fear the state is not prepared to cope with. The Alzheimer’s Association has released a report that estimates cases in Arizona will increase from 150,000 in 2020 to 200,000 by 2025, a 33% increase that would be the fastest in the nation over that five-year period.

Rates of hospitalization and amputations among racial and ethnic minority adults with diabetic foot ulcers decreased in states that adopted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. That’s the finding of a new study from the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

A new medical center in the Navajo Nation community of Dilkon is nearly complete. The 154,000-square-foot facility will serve areas in the southwest portion of the reservation.

Arizona's Medicaid program says it and a health care program for children will soon resume disenrolling state residents no longer eligible for coverage.

President Joe Biden has announced the nomination of Navajo tribal member and Navajo Area Indian Health Service Director Roselyn Tso to lead the IHS.

First lady Jill Biden touted her husband’s push to eradicate cancer and the Biden administration’s efforts to improve health care for Native Americans during a stop at the Tohono O’odham Nation outside Tucson on Tuesday.

The FCC’s Telehealth Program supports health care providers’ efforts to serve patients by providing reimbursement for telecommunications and information services and connected devices necessary to enable telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Officials say Phoenix-based Banner Health is at its most overwhelmed level since the pandemic began. That has led executives to issue a bleak warning that the hospital system may have to eventually choose who can receive care.

A federal judge has blocked a key portion of a new Arizona law that would have let prosecutors bring felony charges against doctors who knowingly…