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Medicaid ‘unwinding’ makes Montana children suffer
Watching a child battle cancer is incredibly hard, but watching a child forgo cancer treatment because he lost insurance coverage is devastating. This is the reality that some Montana families are facing. Although that this may seem like the worst-case scenario, the stories are endless. Kids are missing speech therapy that will impact their ability […]
Gianforte wrong about science and medical care of transgender youth
A bill to prohibit critical health care for transgender Montana youth was just signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte. His signature came despite the objections of Montana’s health experts, child advocates, parents and the people who will be directly impacted. The Montana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization representing pediatric care providers in […]
Keeping kids safe
As Montana physicians caring for children, we recommend strongly and without reservation that all newly eligible children – as well as all teenagers and adults – receive a COVID vaccine. Vaccination is a tool to train your immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria before you are exposed to it. After you or your […]
Montana doctors: Keep kids in school safely with masks
As Montana families are preparing to send children back to school, we are confronting the uncomfortable fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, much as all of us dearly wish it were. Late spring brought big reductions in COVID-19 case rates from the circulating Alpha variant. But what we’re dealing with now, the Delta […]