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Pro-Life Speakers, Youth Rally Before March for Life

Pro-Life Speakers, Youth Rally Before March for Life

by Henry Erlandson | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of anti-abortion advocates Thursday kicked off the 2019 March for Life Conference and Expo in advance of the annual march Friday in which protesters call for the overthrow of protections in Roe v. Wade. David Daleidan told the anti-abortion crowd...
DEMOCRATS PROMISE TO FIGHT TRUMP ON WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

DEMOCRATS PROMISE TO FIGHT TRUMP ON WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

by Ester Wells | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats on Tuesday vowed to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict women’s access to birth control and to eliminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood. “What happens to women’s bodies should be our choice made with our...
SANDERS PROPOSES BILL COMBATING HIGH PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS

SANDERS PROPOSES BILL COMBATING HIGH PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS

by Ester Wells | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders and several Democratic House members proposed legislation Thursday to cut prescription drug prices, saying U.S. prices are higher than in most other developed countries. “How many Americans have to die before Congress takes on...
Mental Health Disorders Are Pervasive in the Juvenile Justice System. Here’s How One State Is Addressing It

Mental Health Disorders Are Pervasive in the Juvenile Justice System. Here’s How One State Is Addressing It

by Rachel Frazin | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Between 50 and 70 percent of the young prisoners in state juvenile justice systems have a mental disability, but an analysis of those systems found that only one state — Indiana — requires all teachers in such facilities to have special education...
Progressives battle to save women’s health funding

Progressives battle to save women’s health funding

by Paola de Varona | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers hammer out a 2018 federal budget, women’s health and family planning is proving to be a contentious issue, but the fight is not limited to Capitol Hill. Last month, Planned Parenthood and several local governments and allied health care...
Congress unlikely to repeal Mexico City Policy despite NGO concerns

Congress unlikely to repeal Mexico City Policy despite NGO concerns

by Libby Berry | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics

WASHINGTON – Despite early concerns about its effects on reproductive health care in the developing world, Congress is unlikely to repeal policy that restricts international organizations’ ability to offer abortion services if they receive U.S. funding, Sen. Jeanne...
Gov. Brown testifies in Senate about opioid crisis

Gov. Brown testifies in Senate about opioid crisis

by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics

WASHINGTON — Touting Oregon’s efforts to combat the opioid crisis, Gov. Kate Brown told a Senate committee Thursday that states need the federal government to step up its efforts by providing more money and moving beyond punishment of drug users to prevention. “Right...
Near misses, drone encounters concern air safety agencies, lawmakers

Near misses, drone encounters concern air safety agencies, lawmakers

by Renzo Downey | Feb 27, 2018 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Congress needs to stop stalling and take action to ensure the rising number of near misses by planes and the dangers of unregulated drones in commercial air space are addressed, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee...
More anti-harassment policies needed in STEM fields, experts say

More anti-harassment policies needed in STEM fields, experts say

by Priyanka Godbole | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – More help is needed to protect female scientists from unwanted sexual advances and intimidation, experts from various scientific institutions told a congressional committee Tuesday, and urged the lawmakers to pass legislation to combat sexual harassment...
Why psychologists can’t diagnose mass murderers

Why psychologists can’t diagnose mass murderers

by Anna Laffrey | Feb 22, 2018 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — In the wake of mass shootings like the ones in Las Vegas or at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, people often wonder whether improving mental health care would have prevented the perpetrators from committing mass murder....
Employers urged to tackle opioid epidemic

Employers urged to tackle opioid epidemic

by Caroline Vakil | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON  – Employers need to provide more treatment and recovery services to those affected by the opioid epidemic, said Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) during a congressional hearing Thursday. 70 percent of U.S. companies offer programs to help employees facing substance...
FAA, aerospace companies explore regulations to launch more spacecraft

FAA, aerospace companies explore regulations to launch more spacecraft

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...
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