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Survivors, family members call for opioid crisis accountability

Survivors, family members call for opioid crisis accountability

by Jason Harward and Zinya Salfiti | Dec 3, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Protesters gathered outside the Department of Justice Friday demanding the Attorney General’s Office pursue a criminal lawsuit against the Sackler family, owners of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical company that manufactures the prescription drug...
Threats Under the Tree: Congress Addresses Holiday Products’ Dangers

Threats Under the Tree: Congress Addresses Holiday Products’ Dangers

by Mikayla Denault | Dec 3, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Trista Hamsmith’s voice shook Tuesday as she recalled one last happy memory of her year-old daughter, Reese, roaring at a toy dinosaur. The sassy, spunky girl wasn’t feeling herself one day, Hamsmith told a U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
Mississippi Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Mississippi Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

by Christina van Waasbergen | Dec 1, 2021 | Health & Science, Politics

WASHINGTON – A lawyer for Mississippi Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, arguing it has no constitutional basis, but lawyers for the federal government and an abortion clinic challenging the state’s ban on abortions for women who are more than...
President Biden commemorates World AIDS Day, updates national strategy to combat HIV/AIDS

President Biden commemorates World AIDS Day, updates national strategy to combat HIV/AIDS

by Henry Rogers | Dec 1, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a rare type of pneumonia afflicting five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles. The cases would be identified a year later as the first AIDS diagnoses in the U.S., and the...
Hospitals decry funding cuts in Build Back Better act

Hospitals decry funding cuts in Build Back Better act

by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Nov 23, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Hospital groups and some members of Congress are demanding Democrats drop the proposed reduction in federal funding for some hospitals that serve large numbers of uninsured patients in the Biden administration’s $1.7 trillion social spending bill,...
Bill seeks to improve healthcare access for urban American Indians

Bill seeks to improve healthcare access for urban American Indians

by Yiming Fu | Nov 23, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — A proposed amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act is intended to improve health care access for American Indians who live in urban areas, its advocates say. The Urban Indian Health Confer Act would require the Department of Healtah and...
VA is failing survivors of sexual violence, IG and veterans advocates say

VA is failing survivors of sexual violence, IG and veterans advocates say

by Christina van Waasbergen | Nov 18, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs and advocates from veterans groups Wednesday highlighted systemic failings in how the VA handles military sexual trauma claims. Studies suggest that as many as one in three female U.S....
Veteran advocates urge Congress to help military families avoid food insecurity

Veteran advocates urge Congress to help military families avoid food insecurity

by Baylor Spears and Zinya Salfiti | Nov 11, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Tim Keefe, a Navy veteran from Maine, recounted foraging for food and living like a “caveman” in the months when he didn’t qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during a House subcommittee hearing...
Sen. Rand Paul attacks Dr. Anthony Fauci in Senate COVID-19 hearing

Sen. Rand Paul attacks Dr. Anthony Fauci in Senate COVID-19 hearing

by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Nov 4, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., once again traded barbs at a Senate hearing Thursday after Paul accused Fauci of starting the COVID-19 pandemic by funding risky biological research in Wuhan, China....
Coronavirus cases went unreported at largest meatpackers, investigation finds

Coronavirus cases went unreported at largest meatpackers, investigation finds

by Mary Yang | Oct 27, 2021 | Health & Science, Living

WASHINGTON — High coronavirus infection and death rates among workers in the U.S. meatpacking industry went unreported because of a “political decision” to not track cases, according to the report released Wednesday of an investigation by the House Select...
The modern space race: U.S. aims to stay on top

The modern space race: U.S. aims to stay on top

by Mikayla Denault | Oct 21, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON— China’s increased efforts in space had the attention of the Senate space subcommittee Thursday, with several senators saying Congress will act to ensure that NASA retains its leadership role in space exploration. “Nobody’s going to out-entrepreneur...
AAPI women underline nuanced challenges to access abortion

AAPI women underline nuanced challenges to access abortion

by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Oct 21, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON – “Terminating my pregnancy was not an easy choice, but it was my choice.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat representing Washington state and an immigrant from India, along with two other congresswomen shared their abortion stories at a House committee...
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