by Noah Fromson | Feb 1, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Employees aged 45 and older with retirement plans in benefits packages should be allowed to withdraw from their plans to purchase more affordable long-term care insurance packages, said experts from the Bipartisan Policy Center Monday. That’s almost 15...
by Noah Fromson | Jan 27, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — While most Americans support doctor-assisted suicide, it is still bad public policy, a conservative Christian leader said Wednesday. Catherine Glenn Foster of the Alliance Defending Freedom told an audience at the libertarian Cato Institute that...
by Noah Fromson | Jan 20, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — With development of new antibiotics slowing to a trickle, food producers and feed suppliers need be better acquainted with how to handle antibiotics with their animals, experts said at a Farm Foundation, NFP forum Wednesday. Antibiotic resistance is...
by Noah Fromson | Jan 19, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – More scientific research is needed before an international standard conversion factor for measuring protein content in soy products is established —a determination that could have potential market impacts on the soy and dairy industries, experts said...
by Noah Fromson | Jan 11, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – While drugs that combat rising U.S. heroin addiction and overdose rates exist and new versions are on the way, access is too limited and treatment is too decentralized to be effective, a group of medical experts told a House task force Monday....
by Noah Fromson | Jan 6, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced a budget bill, passed Wednesday, that would repeal the Affordable Care Act. The line in the budget reconciliation bill is the 62nd attempt to eliminate Obamacare — and it would also defund Planned...
