Trump’s withdrawal of guidance on emergency care has created confusion that will have life and death consequences for patients, say Greer Donley and Kimberly Chernoby Earlier this month, President Trump’s administration rescinded guidance that clarified US hospitals’ legal obligation to provide emergency care to pregnant patients, even in states with strict abortion bans.1 Although expected, this action has led to tremendous confusion about the legality of medically necessary abortions in an already uncertain environment. In 2022, the Supreme Court over-ruled Roe v Wade, the case that first recognised a constitutional right to abortion in the United States. One month later, the Department of Health and Human Services, under President Biden, issued guidance stating that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labour Act (EMTALA), a federal law requiring hospitals to stabilise people with emergency medical conditions, applied to pregnancy related emergencies and included abortion as a

Children who develop addictive use of digital technology have up to twice the risk of developing suicidal behaviour within four years compared with those who may spend longer on their phones but don’t develop addictive behaviour, a study has found.1 The research involved regular screening over four years for addictive symptoms, including compulsive use, difficulty in disengaging, and distress when not given access, of 4285 US adolescents who were 10 years old at the start of the study. It is the first to “show that addictive screen use, not total screen time, is linked to suicidal ideation and behaviour and mental health problems in US teens,” said lead author Yunyu Xiao, an assistant professor of psychiatry and population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical School. The results, published in JAMA , showed that nearly a third of participants had an increasingly addictive use trajectory for social media or mobile phones, which started at age 11. More than four out of 10 (41%) experi