by Bing Xiao | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — A change in the current U.S. policy limiting travel from China to the United States and quarantining returning travelers should be considered as the nation tries to handle the coronavirus outbreak, several health experts told a House hearing...
by Chiara Vercellone | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Hospitals around the country must develop diagnostic tests to quickly detect possible cases of the coronavirus that started in China and is spreading across the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The FDA, which has launched a website with...
by Mark Satter | Oct 24, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned a Senate committee Thursday that efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in the U.S. fall short and laid out a new approach that would end the overprescription of addictive pills. “We still have an epidemic of...
by Alec Bose | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The public health effects on communities that have witnessed mass shootings, murders, child abuse and other violence need more attention, experts said Thursday. “It’s not just those who died in mass shootings, it’s not even those who are involved in...
by Silvia Martelli | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — Implementing universal health care, often called Medicare for all, would reduce competition and innovation in the health care industry and create longer waiting times for services, some health care policy experts said Wednesday. Speaking at the...
by Mark Satter | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – In the wake of a senior policy adviser to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee saying she was assaulted at a VA facility, the chairwoman of the committee’s panel on health wants to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to create strict...
