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...
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...
