by Lauren Caruba | Feb 4, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed U.S. surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy on Tuesday to address whether his support for gun control and the new health care law would affect his objectivity if he becomes the nation’s top doctor during a Senate confirmation hearing....
by Lauren Caruba | Feb 3, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs cut its backlog of hundreds of thousands of disability claims by nearly one-third last year but is still struggling to modernize an outdated processing system, a report released Monday by the Iraq and Afghanistan...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 28, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a spirited defense of health care reform Tuesday night, acknowledging repeated attacks on the law while his administration works to smooth over its shaky rollout. The president, in his State of the Union address, gave his...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 22, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – In the midst of a cold freeze gripping the capital, thousands of people gathered Wednesday on the National Mall to protest federal funding for abortions and promote adoption on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which legalized the procedure in...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 15, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices Wednesday questioned the fairness of a Massachusetts law that creates restrictive zones around abortion clinics, pitting First Amendment rights against obstruction statutes. The court weighed the state’s history of disturbances near...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 14, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights were under attack from the right in 2013, especially at the state level, despite wide pro-choice support among Americans, according to an annual report released Tuesday by NARAL Pro-Choice America. States approved 53 laws identified by...
