• West Virginia GOP Legislature passes ban on transgender health care for minors

    West Virginia GOP Legislature passes ban on transgender health care for minors

    Mar 12, 2023 03:58 PM EST

    The changes, made at the urging of Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, who is a physician, would allow some transgender youth to continue receiving medical interventions under certain circumstances, including hormone therapy if they experience severe gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is defined by medical professionals as severe psychological distress experienced ...

  • What is behind the rise in gun related violence in the U.S.

    What is behind the rise in gun related violence in the U.S.

    Apr 24, 2022 09:35 PM EST

    ... Geoff Bennett: So gun control is not moving really anywhere. It's entirely stalled. The Biden administration has talked about providing more funding for community intervention of the President signed a bill regulating so called ghost guns, what needs to happen to sort of move the needle here? Jennifer Mascia ...

  • Haitians see history of racist policies in migrant treatment

    Haitians see history of racist policies in migrant treatment

    Sep 24, 2021 03:50 PM EST

    By comparison, four of the five top U.S. asylum applicants are from Latin American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Their acceptance rates range from 6.21% to 14.12%. Nicole Phillips, legal director for the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said racism has long driven the American government’s ...

  • How the coronavirus’ economic toll could also affect public health

    How the coronavirus’ economic toll could also affect public health

    Mar 30, 2020 10:10 PM EST

    ... new report from researchers at the Federal Reserve and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that after the 1918 flu pandemic, cities that implemented strong intervention measures, like closing businesses and schools, early on in the outbreak were more successful at reducing mortality and also saw stronger economic growth after ...

  • 2020 Democrats talk gun control even as focus shifts to impeachment

    2020 Democrats talk gun control even as focus shifts to impeachment

    Oct 02, 2019 04:31 PM EST

    ... guns. Biden doesn't offer a price tag for his voluntary buyback proposal but proposes a $900 million, eight-year grant program for evidence-based intervention programs in 40 cities with high homicide rates. The idea reflects a point Biden and some other candidates make often when campaigning: Mass shootings ...

  • Klobuchar releases $100 billion substance abuse, mental health plan

    Klobuchar releases $100 billion substance abuse, mental health plan

    May 03, 2019 12:06 PM EST

    ... as the daughter of an alcoholic who struggled with addiction for years before getting sober. The wide-ranging plan, released Friday, includes funding for early intervention of mental health disorders and drug use, a national suicide prevention campaign, better access to opioid addiction and other types of treatment and recruitment ...

  • Dementia presents a unique challenge to gun safety

    Dementia presents a unique challenge to gun safety

    Jun 26, 2018 11:59 AM EST

    ... was 75, raised his hand to hit Christal — something he hadn’t done in his old age — and her fiancé, Allen Holtzman, stepped in to intervene. In a flash, Bill pulled the .22 pistol out of his pocket and fired at Holtzman’s chest, knocking him down to the couch ...

  • News Wrap: Trump hopes to meet with Kim Jong Un ‘very soon’

    News Wrap: Trump hopes to meet with Kim Jong Un ‘very soon’

    Apr 24, 2018 10:45 PM EST

    ... could have been much worse. Today, James Shaw Jr. tearfully told state House members that he wasn't trying to be a hero when he intervened. James Shaw Jr.: I didn't actually do it to save people. I did it just to save my life. So, in me saving ...

  • Who controls the water supply? The answer involves a long history of political strife

    Who controls the water supply? The answer involves a long history of political strife

    Dec 17, 2017 08:31 PM EST

    ... AB 685, known as California’s Human Right to Water Bill, which ensure the state’s commitment to affordable and clean water. Salceda called the bill’s passage “an incredible moment for California.” One of the bill’s biggest advancements was establishing a database of water systems that are not ...

  • Opioid education is now a college requirement in this state

    Opioid education is now a college requirement in this state

    Sep 12, 2017 07:47 PM EST

    Can prevention and education programs be effective measures for stemming the opioid crisis? A new Maryland law raises the question.