Immigrant wave is new HHS crisis
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View ArticleDems plot legislative offensive on high court’s birth control decision
645X363 - No Companion - Full Sharing - Additional videos are suggested - Policy/Regulation/Blogs brightcove.createExperiences(); Democrats want to lure Republicans into a...
View ArticleLobbyists mobilize on Ebola virus
The Ebola lobby is spreading in Washington.About a dozen corporations and nonprofits now say they’re lobbying on the disease, with many focused on steps the government could take to stop the outbreak...
View ArticleRubio is still insured under Obamacare: report
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is one of the Affordable Care Act's staunchest opponents. He's also one of its highest-profile beneficiaries.Rubio enrolled his family in health insurance through the...
View ArticleMarijuana legalization might be fix to nation’s opioid problems
Proponents of marijuana prohibition have long alleged that experimentation with pot acts as a “gateway” to the use and eventual abuse of other illicit substances. But the results of a just released...
View ArticleDEA shouldn't leave marijuana in same class as heroin
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today rejected a pair of administrative rescheduling petitions challenging the federal classification of cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance...
View ArticleZika is here, while Congress is on vacation
While Congress remains on recess, the Zika virus is now spreading on U.S. soil, right where every day Americans live and enjoy their own vacations. Yet Congress continues to play politics with this...
View ArticleIs Congress tipping the country toward decriminalizing all drugs?
Will all mind-altering drugs eventually be decriminalized by the federal government? With its decision to regard drug addiction as an “disease” and “epidemic” and to thereby emphasize treatment over...
View ArticleMarijuana legalization will win big on Election Day: Here’s why
Voters in five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada – will decide this November on ballot initiatives seeking to legalize and regulate the adult use, production, and retail...
View ArticleVeterans shouldn't have to wait
We’ve all seen the recent headlines or heard the horror stories about American military veterans in dire need of medical treatment, their conditions worsening while they wait for weeks or months to...
View ArticleTrump suggests women 'go to another state' for abortions
Under a Donald Trump presidency, women may have to go to a different state than the one they live in to get an abortion, the president-elect said in an interview Sunday night.In an interview with...
View ArticleWhat to watch for in new healthcare score
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday is slated to release its analysis of the GOP bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare — the very analysis that House Republicans declined to wait for when...
View ArticleSix resign from presidential HIV/AIDS council because Trump...
Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have angrily resigned, saying that President Trump doesn’t care about HIV.Scott Schoettes, Lucy Bradley-Springer, Gina Brown, Ulysses Burley...
View ArticleTrump: Congress wouldn't 'dare' leave without...
President Trump said early Monday that he did not expect Congress to leave for its summer recess without approving a "beautiful" new healthcare bill. “I cannot imagine that Congress would dare to leave...
View ArticleVA Secretary Shulkin seeks larger role for private health care
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Monday that he would like to see private sector providers play a larger role in veterans’ health care.“The direction I’m taking this is to give veterans...
View ArticleCDC banned from using 'evidence-based' and...
The Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using the phrases “evidence-based” and “science-based” in official documents.Senior CDC...
View ArticleLGBT rights group projects Trump CDC banned words on Trump Hotel
The Human Rights Campaign took aim at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) list of “banned words,” projecting them on the Trump International Hotel in D.C. on Tuesday night.The group,...
View ArticlePoison control group issues 'high alert' after spike in teens...
The American Association of Poison Control Centers has issued a “high alert” in response to a sharp rise in the numbers of teenagers eating Tide laundry detergent pods.In the first two weeks of 2018,...
View ArticleCollins: I look for judges who 'respect precedent'
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Wednesday that she believes Roe v. Wade is settled legal precedent — and she believes judges should respect precedent. "I view Roe v. Wade as being settled law....
View ArticleSenate confirms Trump's VA pick despite opposition from some Dems
The Senate easily cleared President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday. Senators voted 86-9 on Robert Wilkie's nomination to be the VA secretary. Democratic...
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