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Chicago gun violence activists ask Congress to follow suit in community health reforms

Chicago gun violence activists ask Congress to follow suit in community health reforms

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...
As gun violence soars, lawmakers, experts debate how best Congress can address the crisis

As gun violence soars, lawmakers, experts debate how best Congress can address the crisis

by Cate Bikales and Kunjal Bastola | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Living

WASHINGTON – Doctors and medical experts on Tuesday called on lawmakers to take a public health approach to the gun violence epidemic they say is plaguing the United States.  Since 2020, guns have become the number one cause of death for children and teenagers,...
Congress, veterans urge federal government to deploy psychedelics for PTSD treatment

Congress, veterans urge federal government to deploy psychedelics for PTSD treatment

by Cate Bikales and 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...
White House launches initiative to improve women’s health research

White House launches initiative to improve women’s health research

by Cate Bikales | Nov 14, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced an initiative on Monday that will drastically improve how the federal government funds and approaches women’s health research. The White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research addresses a fundamental problem in the...
U.S. health care coverage is being denied based on AI suggestions

U.S. health care coverage is being denied based on AI suggestions

by Luis Castaneda | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics

WASHINGTON – Christine Huberty provides legal assistance to those facing health care coverage denial. On May 25, one of her clients, Jim, was hospitalized for pneumonia. He had been receiving chemotherapy treatment and had a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Tribal leaders push senators to fight fentanyl

Tribal leaders push senators to fight fentanyl

by Kunjal Bastola and 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...
Tribal leaders, fearing ‘losing a generation’ to the fentanyl crisis, press for federal help

Tribal leaders, fearing ‘losing a generation’ to the fentanyl crisis, press for federal help

by Kristen Axtman | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Tribal leaders on Wednesday urged the federal government for more money and law enforcement support to help them tackle the spread of fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times as potent as morphine –  in Native communities. At a Senate Indian...
Achieving global gender equality is impossible without support for reproductive rights, experts warn

Achieving global gender equality is impossible without support for reproductive rights, experts warn

by Cate Bikales | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics

WASHINGTON — Sexual health experts say achieving global gender equality and empowerment — a broadly bipartisan goal — is not possible without increased political and financial support for reproductive rights. At the current rate of progress, and with a deepening...
Sanders stands in solidarity with striking nurses in solo Senate field hearing

Sanders stands in solidarity with striking nurses in solo Senate field hearing

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...
Republicans salvage NIH director nomination after Sanders’ resolute ‘no’

Republicans salvage NIH director nomination after Sanders’ resolute ‘no’

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...
House committee discusses recommended regulation on biosecurity and biosafety

House committee discusses recommended regulation on biosecurity and biosafety

by Luis Castaneda | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Dr. Gerald W. Parker, chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), told House lawmakers on Wednesday that research laboratories worldwide handling dangerous pathogens continue to pose a credible threat in producing future...
Senators Grill Biden’s NIH Pick on Prescription Drug Costs, Research Ethics and COVID-19

Senators Grill Biden’s NIH Pick on Prescription Drug Costs, Research Ethics and COVID-19

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...
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