by Caroline Killilea | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
The medication buprenorphine, used by patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), became easier for Americans to access in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this access is only a temporary protection, and experts say the clock is ticking before...
by Erica Schmitt | Dec 4, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices raised doubts about the challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors during oral arguments for United States v. Skrmetti Wednesday. Enacted in 2023, Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1...
by Caroline Killilea | Nov 19, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers sparred with Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), over vaccines and the future of the agency under President-Elect Donald Trump at a House Appropriations Committee Hearing on Tuesday. The hearing was held...
by Raj Ghanekar | Nov 11, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Health & Science, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON– Experts say the successful protection of abortion rights in seven states Tuesday shows reproductive rights are popular among voters. However, an interesting scenario in four states is raising questions about the issue. Voters in Nevada, Arizona, Montana...
by Caroline Killilea | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed its final gravity-assist maneuver on Wednesday, flying past the surface of Venus and setting it on a path to come within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface, the closest any human-made object has ever come to the...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Abortion will be on the ballot in 10 U.S. states this Tuesday as voters turn out for the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Almost all of the ballot measures aim to enshrine the right to abortion,...
by Erica Schmitt | Oct 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Health & Science
In this third episode of Point by Point, we focus on health care by comparing former President Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act with Vice President Kamala Harris’s commitment to expanding health care access. Tune in as we explore how their policies on...
by Audrey Pachuta | Oct 23, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – More than 200 doctors and nurses are calling on former President Donald Trump to release his medical records, citing concerns over his age and fitness for office as he campaigns for a potential second term that would make the 78-year-old the oldest...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 22, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON –The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health analyzed practices for reducing tobacco consumption, including switching from traditional cigarette use to e-cigarettes, at a joint public meeting on smoking cessation on Monday. “We’ve...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 10, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A third case of bird flu was confirmed in California on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following two other cases confirmed in the state last week. Two additional presumed cases are awaiting verification. Wild birds, which...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly launched a new Forever stamp honoring health care workers at a dedication ceremony on Thursday. The stamp became available for sale on Tuesday, October 1st and...
by Simone Garber | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Between a real estate attorney’s office and a county magistrate building sits one of South Carolina’s three abortion clinics. Pink and white signs beckon patients, discreetly placed so as not to invite unwanted attention. Since the overturning of Roe...
