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Section: Policies
Policies
Missourians Rally for Health Care, Higher Wage
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At least 200 demonstrators rallied at the Missouri Capitol to call for a higher minimum wage and expanded health care. The rally Monday was one of 30 scheduled nationwide as part of the “Moral Monday” movement. The movement began in 2013 against conservative policies that advocates say hurt the poor and […]
September 14, 2016
Policies
Wife: Jailed Veteran Suffers PTSD and Mental Illness
VALPARASIO, Fla. —At 9:18 a.m. on April 9, 2015, Aaron Wanless sent an email to his psychiatrist’s office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs clinic at Eglin Air Force Base. “This medication is killing me,” he wrote. “My brain is malfunctioning.” At the moment he sent the message, the 35-year-old Air Force veteran was […]
September 14, 2016
Policies
Ohio Medical Marijuana Law Takes Effect
COLUMBUS, Ohio —Ohio has yet to outline how exactly its new medical marijuana law will work even as it took effect September 8, leaving a host of unanswered questions by doctors, patients, pharmacists, police and many others. Rules for producing, prescribing and distributing cannabis to eligible patients are expected to take up to a year […]
September 13, 2016
Policies
House Panel Subpoenas VA over Denver Hospital Costs
WASHINGTON — Demanding explanations for a $1 billion cost overrun, a House panel has issued a subpoena to the Department of Veterans Affairs for documents on how the cost of a Denver-area VA hospital ballooned to almost $1.7 billion. That figure was nearly triple earlier estimates. The subpoena by the House Veterans Affairs Committee also […]
September 13, 2016
Policies
Connecticut Medical Insurances Rates Will Climb
HARTFORD, Conn. — Tens of thousands of Connecticut health insurance consumers will still see double-digit increases in their 2017 rates, even though the state’s Department of Insurance has denied some rate requests filed by health insurers, while reducing others. The agency said Friday the rates reflect rising medical costs and elimination of the federal payments […]
September 7, 2016
Policies
Cuba Reports Success in Controlling Zika Virus
HAVANA — Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working. Cuba is among the few countries in the Western Hemisphere that have so far prevented significant spread of the disease blamed for birth defects […]
September 7, 2016
Policies
Judges Blasts Denial of Medication in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blasted a prison policy that denies former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and others an expensive hepatitis C drug until they have advanced liver damage. U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani said the policy amounts to “conscious disregard” for the inmates’ health, but noted that prisons, Medicaid officials and […]
September 7, 2016
Policies
Parents, Coaches Try to Recognize Brain Injury
MORTON, Ill.— More than 100 8- to 14-year-olds flooded the fields at Southwood Park to complete what looked a lot like field sobriety tests: touching their fingers to their noses, walking a straight line toe to heel and reciting the months of the year backward. “What we’re doing here today, we are actually assessing brain […]
September 2, 2016
Policies
Officials: Utah Health Plans Affordable Despite Increases
SALT LAKE CITY — As consumers in Utah and around the country are expected to see higher health insurance premiums and fewer choices next year under President Barack Obama’s health law, the White House says rates will still be relatively inexpensive for most Utah consumers. If rates for all health plans available on the federally […]
August 31, 2016
Policies
Grants Will Help Remove Lead in East Chicago Soil
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — The state of Indiana is providing $200,000 to the city of East Chicago to help families living at a public housing complex where soil is tainted with elevated levels of lead and arsenic. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority says its board approved the allocation of $100,000 to the East […]
August 29, 2016
Policies
Florida Teen Survives Killer Brain Amoeba
ORLANDO, Fla. —A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the infection is made by a company based in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said. Sebastian DeLeon came to the hospital two weeks ago with sensitivity to light and […]
August 29, 2016
Policies
Is Synthetic Turf Making Athletes Sick?
TACOMA, Wash. — Their son is gone. Luke Beardemphl, a standout Tacoma soccer player during his years at Stadium High School, died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But Luke’s parents, Mike and Stephanie Beardemphl, now worry about the kids who will come after him, running, rolling and diving into […]
August 24, 2016
Policies
Tobacco Banned at MSU
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University students, faculty and others who want to smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products are going to have to do so off campus. A ban on all tobacco products, including cigarettes, chewable tobacco, vaporizers, e-cigarettes and hookahs, went into effect August 15. It applies to university sites around […]
August 22, 2016
Policies
U.A. President Seeks Investigation into Medical School
TUCSON, Ariz. —The president of the University of Arizona has called for an independent investigation into allegations of misuse of public funds by its two medical schools. The Arizona Daily Star reports that President Ann Weaver Hart released a statement calling for the independent third-party investigation with no university or Arizona Board of Regents employees […]
August 22, 2016
Policies
Medical Marijuana Ruling Frustrates Patients
MACON, Ga. — Medical marijuana supporters in Georgia were hoping for something different from the federal government, not its recent ruling that cannabis should remain off-limits. Georgians like Janea Cox of Monroe County want to be able to get medical cannabis just like other prescriptions instead of breaking the law to seek therapies for themselves […]
August 17, 2016
Policies
Deputy Kills Mentally Ill Patient Armed with Sign Post
FAIRFAX, Va. — A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a hospital patient who was wielding a metal sign post and appeared to be mentally disturbed, police said Tuesday. The 29-year-old Hispanic man had just been discharged from Inova Fairfax Hospital Monday (August 15) night when he began wielding a sign post with a sharp metal end, […]
August 17, 2016
Policies
Experts: Mental Illness Aided Some Leaders in Tough Times
WASHINGTON — Some of America’s greatest leaders in history have had mental health problems, and it may have helped in times of crisis, psychiatrists and psychologists said. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, along with Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King […]
August 15, 2016
Policies
Texas Anti-Abortion Group Gets Funds
AUSTIN, Texas — A revamped women’s health program in Texas that ousted Planned Parenthood is giving a $1.6 million state contract to the nonprofit of an anti-abortion activist, who state officials said submitted a “robust” proposal for helping low-income women in rural areas. The Heidi Group’s Carol Everett has been a visible abortion opponent at […]
August 15, 2016
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