by Simone Garber | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Between a real estate attorney’s office and a county magistrate building sits one of South Carolina’s three abortion clinics. Pink and white signs beckon patients, discreetly placed so as not to invite unwanted attention. Since the overturning of Roe...
by Emma Sullivan | Mar 19, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
ALBANY — When 15-year-old Oneida County resident Matilda Terrell caught COVID-19 for the first time in July 2022, Matilda’s symptoms were mild and they recovered quickly. But, when they contracted the virus for the second time two months later, their life changed...
by Zachary Kessel | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – For Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and ranking member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Thursday’s hearing on dual-enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid was an opportunity to tout an accomplishment all too rare in today’s political climate:...
by Joshua Irvine | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – House Democrats pushed through a resolution Thursday rebuking President Donald Trump’s initiative to give states leeway to limit Medicaid benefits for some low-income recipients. The resolution, which passed 223-190, attacks an initiative by the Trump...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 17, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama appeared in a video on the comedy website Funny or Die to plug his health care law last week, some pundits were quick to criticize. “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said on his Fox News show that the president’s strategy...