Jan 18 House Leaders Frame Next Steps for Round 2 of Health Reform Debate On a day when debate began on the House floor over whether to repeal the health care law passed last year, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer both met with the media in separate news… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch ‘Minds on the Edge’ Explores Public Policy Hurdles of Mental Illness The "Minds on the Edge" seminar, hosted by Fred Friendly and airing on many public broadcasting stations, explores the public policy dilemmas facing some people with mental illness and the communities in which they live. Continue watching
Jan 18 Violence Against Women Among Challenges in Haiti By Talea Miller Human rights groups are calling for more security measures in the tent camps of Port-au-Prince to reduce the number of rapes and incidents of sexual violence. Continue reading
Jan 18 House Takes Up Health Reform Repeal With Congress returning to scheduled business this week, the House of Representatives, led by Speaker John Boehner, is set to take up a proposed repeal of the health care reform law. The debate, originally scheduled for last week, was… Continue reading
Jan 18 Congress Gets Back to Business, Starting With Repeal of Health Care Law The U.S. Capitol. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. The House of Representatives returns to work Tuesday after putting legislative business on hold for a week to reflect on the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that left six… Continue reading
Jan 18 H1N1 Gives Clues to Universal Flu Vaccine By Talea Miller Researchers found that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza produced antibodies that provide protection from several flu strains. Continue reading
Jan 17 State Budget Cuts Slash Mental Health Funding Over the past ten days, the story of 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman in the Tucson shootings, has unfolded on news outlets throughout the world. It's a dark tale of a troubled young man who was growing increasingly out… Continue reading
Jan 17 Poll: Support for Health Care Repeal Drops As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling. Only 25 percent of people polled now support repealing the health care… Continue reading
Jan 14 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Malaria Vaccine, Haiti One Year Later By Talea Miller Malaria patient in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Promising New Malaria Vaccine An effective malaria vaccine may be on the horizon: a Phase II trial published in the Lancet this week showed an experimental vaccine cut the risk of… Continue reading
Jan 14 Health Reform Watch: After Tragedy, House Resumes Repeal Agenda After Shooting, House Resumes Repeal Agenda House Republicans said Thursday that the House will take up a vote to repeal the health care reform law next week, resuming their legislative agenda one week after it was delayed by… Continue reading