by Erin Drumm | May 21, 2025 | Health, Politics
Families from all 50 states and DC gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday for Strolling Thunder, an event that connects families with their lawmakers to demand policies that prioritize children. The event comes amidst proposed cuts to Medicaid in the budget and...
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by Emma McNamee | Oct 26, 2023 | Health
WASHINGTON – The financial network behind the making and distribution of fentanyl continues to fuel trade of the synthetic opioid that has claimed over a quarter of a million lives in the U.S. since 2018, despite ongoing U.S. efforts, according to government...
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by Pingping Yin | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Health, Health
WASHINGTON– The number of women who died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, known as maternal death, spiked during the pandemic, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. It shows that COVID-19 was a contributing...
by Pingping Yin | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Health, Health
WASHINGTON — With several new omicron sub variants steadily gaining ground, experts, such as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, warned another COVID surge will come this winter. Unlike the first two COVID winters when the federal...
by Katherine Huggins and Julia Mueller | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...
by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...
