by Drew Gerber | Mar 20, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — While the U.S. Navy is better known for its role in protecting Americans from enemies abroad, it also works in labs throughout the world, combatting an unseen enemy: infectious disease. And now, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6) based in Lima,...
by Tyler Kendall | Mar 17, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—When some of the nation’s most powerful women got together Thursday at the Treasury Department, they meant business. The Women in Finance and Technology Symposium addressed improving financial inclusion for women, closing the gender gap in science and...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 17, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressmen held nothing back Thursday in their scathing attacks on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for doing too little to solve the Flint, Mich. water crisis, which left many of the city’s 99,000 residents with...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Despite the many surprises of the 2016 presidential campaigns, most agreed there was one sure thing: If Michael Bloomberg ran for president, he would not win. However, a Bloomberg administration almost certainly would have had improving public health as a...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 16, 2016 | Health & Science, Politics
In the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court gave constitutional protection to a woman’s right to an abortion. But in 1992, the court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey amended that right somewhat. States could restrict abortions to protect women’s...
by Noah Fromson | Mar 15, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Zika researchers need to shift focus from male to female mosquitoes because mating could be the key to controlling the virus, an expert said Tuesday. Scientists have been working on genetically modifying the aedes aegypti mosquito,...
by Nicolas Rivero | Mar 14, 2016 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — A newly discovered species, an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sheds light on how tyrannosaurs evolved from small man-sized predators into the iconic dinosaur we know from Jurassic Park, scientists announced Monday. Smithsonian paleobiologist...
by Tyler Kendall | Mar 9, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON— Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called on Congress Wednesday to renew a law that has been providing free and low-cost school meals to children for 50 years. The same day, the American Academy of Pediatrics said poor children are more likely to...
by Noah Fromson | Mar 8, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Latin American governments should follow Canada’s lead and investigate the high rate of violence against indigenous women , experts said Tuesday. In honor of International Women’s Day, the Organization of American States, which...
by Tyler Kendall | Mar 7, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—For the past 10 years, Frank Niepold has been doing his part to educate the public on climate change – its causes and effects — as the climate coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. What he has learned, he says, is that...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 2, 2016 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court should rule against a Texas law imposing stricter requirements for abortion providers as a violation of the “undue burden” standard because the law’s provisions are not medically necessary and make abortions less accessible, a lawyer...
by Ethan Cohen | Mar 2, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON –Democrats Wednesday accused Republicans of creating “a dangerous witch hunt” at the first hearing of a House panel investigating fetal tissue harvesting and research. But the Republican head of the panel said she was moving forward to issue subpoenas...
