by Melody Xu | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers grilled five health insurance CEOs at a hearing Thursday, with Republicans and Democrats agreeing that U.S. health care costs are rising, particularly after the expiration of COVID-era tax credits. The CEOs hailed from UnitedHealth Group,...
by Misha Manjuran Oberoi | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – At an Oct. 8 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing, lawmakers examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping health care — from easing paperwork to raising new safety concerns, including reports of chatbot-linked teen...
by Alison Miller | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and experts argued that the U.S. supply chain’s overreliance on foreign-manufactured medicines, particularly from China and India, poses both health and national security risks during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The Senate Special...
by Ruby Grisin | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – When Dr. Lisa Patel was working on a project for the Environmental Protection Agency in 2005, she visited a children’s hospital for asthma in Mumbai, India. After seeing the main parts of the center, she was surprised when the coordinators took her to a...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruciating. She would need...
