by Casey Egan & Ricky Zipp | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — The week of the Senate Republicans’ attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act began with U.S. Capitol police removing protesters from the Senate Finance Committee’s public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal to replace Obamacare....
by Christine Huang | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Kayla D’Alonzo had been working as a production assistant at an event planning company in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost a year when she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression disorders. D’Alonzo, who was 25 at the time, said she had never faced...
by Misha Euceph | Aug 2, 2017 | Health, Politics
By Misha Euceph WASHINGTON— Many on both sides of the aisle decried the Senate Republicans’ lack of transparency in drafting Obamacare replacement proposals — a move that could’ve passed without a single Democrat since it was included in the budget reconciliation...
by Eric Englert | Jul 21, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Telehealth, the process of accessing medical appointments through the internet, offers preventative and specialized patient care to many of the nation’s 62 million rural residents where hospitals are often lacking. Such a system is especially important in...
by Christine Huang | Jul 12, 2017 | Featured, Health
If you’ve ever stretched out on a yoga mat or popped a probiotic, you may be part of the growing segment of the U.S. population that uses non-conventional therapies to treat medical problems. Complementary and alternative medicine, sometimes referred to as CAM,...
by Christine Huang | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — A Michigan State University sociologist reports in The Journal of Health and Social Behavior that religious participation affects suicide rates differently around the world, and in Latin America particularly, high religious involvement is associated...