New conditions for Medicaid eligibility may pose grave challenges for physicians and the practice of medicine as a whole, according to a new Perspective by Boston University School of Public Health researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine. Physicians will be expected to adhere to new rules for determining and documenting Medicaid enrollees who are exempt or excluded from these requirements, including people who are “medically frail” and deemed to have certain limitations impacting their ability to work. 

A 2026 study addresses how families of transgender youth fared after the start of the second Trump administration.

This study develops and tests DROID-RV, a deep learning model that estimates right ventricular size and function from echocardiograms, and assesses how those estimates relate to later health outcomes.

Researchers examining whether COVID-19 vaccination affects persistent smell or taste problems after contracting the virus have found that, in most cases, it does not.