by Gino Vicci | Jul 19, 2012 | Science + Technology
The Community Education Group is a charitable organization based in Anacostia. The rate of new HIV infections in Washington is four time that of the national rate and in Anacostia more than 90 percent of new HIV infections are African-Americans, according to...
by Kimiteru Tsuruta | Jul 19, 2012 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Discoveries in science can help meet the needs of certain societal needs, but entrepreneurs fill a big gap that exists between the laboratory and marketplace. In 2011, the National Science Foundation started a program called Innovation Corps...
by Shaina Humphries | Jul 19, 2012 | Science + Technology
“What’s the difference between a junkie and a sex worker?” That’s the question human rights advocates rose Thursday as they presented their report: “Sex Workers at Risk”. The conclusion: The government will help drug addicts avoid HIV, even though what they are doing...
by Matt Michaels | Jul 13, 2012 | Politics, Science + Technology, Sports
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are now shifting their focus to doping in horse racing, after a decade of confronting Major League Baseball’s steroid epidemic. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and other members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 12, 2012 | Science + Technology
The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing Wednesday on Medicare physician payments to try and gain insight and ideas about how to reform Medicare. There will be severe cuts to the payments doctors receive for seeing Medicare patients. Malena Caruso debriefs the...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 10, 2012 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — If Tuesday’s conservative American Action Network news conference had been a fight on the school playground, Obamacare would be yelling, “Uncle!” Conservative lawmakers, think tanks and policy analysts made clear their opposition to the Affordable...
