by Shravya Pant | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruciating. She would need...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Stethoscope in one hand and a legislative pen in the other, these doctors are bringing their life-saving skills to Congress. “My job is to take care of the patient that’s in front of me, and as a member of Congress, my job is to take care of the...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices appeared torn on whether Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement plan, which would protect the Sackler family ownership from civil liability in exchange for $6 billion in opioid relief funds, has legal standing during oral arguments...
by Shravya Pant | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – Chicago-area medical experts and community health advocates brought their advocacy to Washington on Tuesday at a Senate panel on gun violence led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). To local community leaders, gun violence is personal. Illinois has the...
by Shravya Pant | Nov 15, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Marine veteran Jonathan Lubecky attempted suicide five times after returning home from deployment in Iraq in 2006. “I am not special. My story is the same as every other veteran suffering with PTSD,” Lubecky said. An average of 16.8 veterans commit...
by Shravya Pant | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders called on lawmakers to enhance tribal law enforcement authority and implement further behavioral health interventions to address the fentanyl crisis at a Senate oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing held by the Senate Indian Affairs...
by Shravya Pant | Nov 7, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — A Meta whistleblower sounded the alarm to Congress on Instagram’s product design, alleging that the popular social media platform knowingly designed products at the expense of teens’ mental health and safety in testimony on Tuesday. Senators on both sides...
by Shravya Pant | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) called attention to the veteran suicide crisis on Wednesday, urging the Department of Veteran Affairs to expand its medical research and improve its efforts at suicide prevention, especially for those living in rural communities....
by Shravya Pant | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital expressed frustration with hospital executives, staffing ratios and worker and patient safety during Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) solo Senate field hearing on Friday amidst their...
by Shravya Pant | Oct 25, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The nomination for Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Biden’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, cleared the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday despite Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) opposition after several...
by Shravya Pant | Oct 25, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stressed that further involvement in Israel and Ukraine would render the U.S. vulnerable to China’s emerging power during a speaking event at the Hudson Institute on Tuesday. “I worry that the...
by Shravya Pant | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Senators finally held a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, for a position that has been vacant for nearly two years. Bertagnolli was nominated in May after...
