by Caroline Vakil | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON–After SpaceX successfully launched its heavy-lift rocket into orbit yesterday, aerospace enthusiasts had something to celebrate: the first privately owned spacecraft to reach orbit. SpaceX “made incredibly hard look easy and fun,” Boeing official John...
by Priyanka Godbole | Feb 1, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – There still is no effective drug treatment for the most common form of arthritis – osteoarthritis – and all types of the disease combined cost about $304 billion a year in medical care and lost wages so more federal research funding is needed, arthritis...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is “unprepared to police the mail arriving in our country” that contains illegal drugs, especially opioids, the head of a Senate homeland security investigations subcommittee said Thursday. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said the...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — American senior citizens are lacking the crucial information they need to navigate crucial healthcare benefits, experts said at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “People’s lives are changing, and they need to be educated or they will fall through the...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Americans living in rural areas may be forced to leave because of inadequate access to health care, North Dakota Sen. Heidkamp said Wednesday at the rollout of a new study that recommended telemedicine and doctor training programs to increase access to...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could be contributing to the opioid epidemic because its low co-payments mean Medicaid recipients can re-sell the drugs for a profit, a report released Wednesday from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security...
by Libby Berry | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Health care will be a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a national survey released Friday by health care advocacy group Protect Our Care and Hart Research Associates. % chose health care as one of their top two issues Of the 1,000...
by Stavros Agorakis & Priyanka Godbole | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Health care providers have seen a rapid increase in flu-related illnesses in January, with both hospitalization and vaccination numbers going up, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts said Friday. In a conference call, CDC Director Brenda...
by Kelly Norris | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday on a bill that would provide more federal money for medical research, would boost funding for the National Institutes of Health and speed the approval process at the Food and Drug...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Prohibition has failed as a remedy for the worldwide drug problem, and decriminalization with regulation remains as the best solution, according to a group of activists and former international leaders. The Global Commission on Drug Policy released...
by Eunice Lee | Nov 16, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The new Congress that starts in January undoubtedly will have Obamacare as a top priority, but the Republicans who have majorities in both chambers should first have an alternative outlined and leave the current law in place at least through 2017,...
by Kelly Norris | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Former NFL player Chris Draft married his long-time girlfriend, Keasha Rutledge in 2011, but one month later Rutledge died of lung cancer leaving behind her grieving husband but also their newly formed initiative against the terrible disease – Team...
