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...
by Alec Bose | Sep 27, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — The number of people in the U.S. without health insurance jumped by 1 million between 2017 and 2018, according to new survey data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. “Insurance is an important part of our nation’s well-being,” said Laryssa Mykyta,...
by Ebony JJ Curry | Aug 22, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Celebrity activists and members of Congress are using their platforms to call attention to the many mental health issues facing African-Americans. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of...
by Matt Reynolds | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The DNA kit that an Ohio woman gave her parents as a Christmas gift last year was meant to draw her family closer together. Instead, it threw their lives into disarray before finally leading them to court. Rebecca Cartellone, 24, bought Ancestry.com...
by Matt Reynolds | Aug 8, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – It’s the germ of an idea that seems ready-made for internet conspiracists: Is Lyme disease the result of a shadowy bioweapons program that unleashed pathogen-infected ticks on the American public? Scientists think not. But a recent bill passed by...
