by Maia Pandey | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
A typical therapist’s waiting room may contain a few unremarkable chairs, a handful of outdated magazines and the quiet bustle of a receptionist’s desk. But in Veterans Affairs facilities, patients can sometimes be bombarded by swaths of military paraphernalia and...
by Jenny Huh | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Six-year-old Isa says she doesn’t mind being a girl with a penis. “Yep, very happy,” said Isa, formerly Isaac, who, according to her mother Violet A., has identified herself as a girl since she started speaking at two. Though she’s too young to know that...
by Zachary Kessel | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – For Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and ranking member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Thursday’s hearing on dual-enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid was an opportunity to tout an accomplishment all too rare in today’s political climate:...
by Maia Pandey | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Increasing access to telehealth services, which many have come to rely upon during the pandemic, provided a point of agreement between lawmakers in a Tuesday hearing to address the national mental health crisis. “Too long Americans have shied away from...
by Maia Pandey | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Communities and healthcare providers urgently need federal funding to address twin mental health and substance abuse crises, healthcare experts and advocates told senators on Tuesday “Almost 130 million Americans live in areas with less than one mental...
by Jenny Huh | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — Less than a month into the new year, the South Dakota Senate passed an anti-transgender measure, an early indication that the record-number of similar bills introduced or signed into law nationwide last year may continue, according to experts. “It is...
by Maia Pandey | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — About one in five lesbian-, gay- and bisexual-identifying adults smoke cigarettes, compared to about one in seven adults who identify as straight — placing LGB Americans among the top 10 populations disproportionately affected by tobacco use, according to...
by Ali Bianco | Jan 25, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – A father slept by his sister’s side as she cried in the hospital after losing four of her limbs to unchecked diabetes. The family didn’t have insurance, so they couldn’t have treated her condition earlier. Laura Guerra-Cardus witnessed their struggle...
by Charlotte Varnes | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON –– Health care coverage for veterans exposed to toxins needs to be streamlined, advocates told lawmakers on Tuesday. “We are a country that loves its veterans — certainly, we purport to,” actor and veterans advocate Jon Stewart told the House Committee on...
by Henry Rogers and Zinya Salfiti | Dec 8, 2021 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Recent research breakthroughs in nuclear fusion have sped up the timeline to bring the pollution-free energy source to the U.S. energy grid by decades, experts say, renewing interest among scientists and lawmakers in the technology’s potential...
by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Dec 7, 2021 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Federal officials are urging a U.S. House committee to support President Joe Biden’s proposal to strengthen regulations on all fentanyl-related substances, with one calling it the most dangerous drug he’s seen. The Biden administration recommended...
by Jason Harward and Zinya Salfiti | Dec 3, 2021 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Protesters gathered outside the Department of Justice Friday demanding the Attorney General’s Office pursue a criminal lawsuit against the Sackler family, owners of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical company that manufactures the prescription drug...
