by Zinya Salfiti | Oct 13, 2021 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The goal to have at least 40% of people in every country vaccinated by the end of 2021 and at least 60% by mid-2022 is ambitious but not impossible, World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who is a member of the multilateral...
by Ali McCadden | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A Kentucky abortion clinic and the state’s attorney general went head-to-head in Supreme Court oral arguments Tuesday on whether the attorney general waited too long to defend a restrictive abortion law in a case that could give insights into the...
by Yiming Fu | Oct 5, 2021 | Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services’ botched response to rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine for Native Americans caused significant delays in getting the vaccine to urban American Indians, the president of the National Council of Urban Indian Health...
by Zinya Salfiti | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the pandemic has exacerbated the increased demand for services for survivors of sexual violence as senators consider a bill to strengthen and renew the Violence Against Women Act. ...
by Khadija Islow | Apr 1, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
President Donald Trump should invoke his authority under the Defense Production Act to expedite the delivery of masks, gloves and gowns to frontline workers who are at a high risk of contracting the coronavirus, union leaders said Tuesday. “While the rest of America...
by Suzy Vazquez and Cassidy Wang | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rachel Fey remembers struggling to get health insurance to cover her birth control costs – more than $400 out of pocket for three months of her pills. For some women, paying for food and shelter often doesn’t leave enough left over to pay for birth...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin’s congressional delegation was unified in authorizing $8.3 billion to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, but much of lawmakers’ rhetoric on what the World Health Organization has labeled a global pandemic has split along partisan...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON–The United States ability to respond to the coronavirus outbreak is the result of underfunding of public health organizations over the last decade, the former White House Ebola coordinator and a top of Trust for America’s Health said. Nadine Garcia,...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 5, 2020 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hostages are being held in crowded prisons in Iran where coronavirus cases are surging, said a family member of two American hostages in Iran during a briefing on Thursday. “I’m horrified for my brother and father. They are cooped up in overly...
by Martha Castro and Khadija Islow | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON— Families of American hostages in Iran on Thursday called on the House to approve a bill that would increase government assistance to Americans wrongfully detained abroad and impose sanctions on foreign officials responsible for the detainments. “Any...
by Janea Wilson | Mar 4, 2020 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Financial support is what is most needed by local governments to fight coronavirus Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday. Ezike said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON– The United States is in the fourth wave of the substance abuse crisis as; methamphetamines combined with drugs like fentanyl are overshadowing opiod abuse in some parts of the country, said a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services said...
