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Section: Policies
Policies
Obama Expands Medical Marijuana Research
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided marijuana will remain on the list of most dangerous drugs, fully rebuffing growing support across the country for broad legalization, but said it will allow more research into its medical uses. The decision to expand research into marijuana’s medical potential could pave the way for the drug to […]
August 15, 2016
Policies
Lab Workers Sue to Keep Names Private
SEATTLE — Researchers and employees for a University of Washington lab that uses tissues obtained from abortions and other procedures have filed a lawsuit to prevent their names from being released to anti-abortion activists. The Seattle Times reports employees at the Birth Defects Research Center say they fear harassment and violence if their names are […]
August 10, 2016
Policies
Group Complains about EMT Live-Animal Use
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A doctors group has filed a complaint against the emergency medicine training program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, saying the program violates federal law by using live animals. The complaint, filed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says the program […]
August 10, 2016
Policies
Solar Energy Will Produce Savings for Hospital
ALBANY, N.Y. — A hospital in Westchester County has finished work on a solar power array that state officials say will save $96,000 a year in energy costs. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced the completion of the project on August 4. The state contributed $358,000 toward the work at the Montrose VA Medical Center. […]
August 10, 2016
Policies
Fighting HIV in Miami
MIAMI — The doctor on a mission met the homeless heroin addict who lived under a tree last year at Jackson Health System’s special immunology clinic when both men were struggling to overcome the odds. Jose De Lemos, infected with HIV and hepatitis C from a shared needle, had gone without treatment for almost a […]
August 10, 2016
Policies
Insurance Group Owns Clinic
DES MOINES, IOWA — Leaders of a new east-side Des Moines clinic say they can help patients stay healthy while saving money for the insurance company that owns the place. The Des Moines Register reports that the CareMore clinic is the most extensive Iowa example of a new health care model: Health insurance companies that […]
August 8, 2016
Policies
Zika Crisis Escalates; Lawmakers Go Home
WASHINGTON — As Zika escalates into a public health crisis and the number of mosquito-transmitted cases grows, Republicans and Democrats are pointing fingers over the failure by Congress to commit federal dollars to fight the virus. President Barack Obama on August 4 sought to pressure congressional Republicans over the issue, encouraging voters to “call your […]
August 8, 2016
Policies
Idaho Posts Free Ultrasound List
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho is publishing a list of places where pregnant women considering abortions can get free ultrasounds. Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Statehouse pushed for the list earlier this year during the legislative session, where anti-abortion legislation is common and almost always receives the governor’s signature. The state’s GOP supermajority refused requests from minority […]
August 3, 2016
Policies
Colleges Pay to Break Lease on Health Center
FREDERICK, Md. — Community colleges in Frederick, Carroll and Howard counties are paying a settlement to vacate a health care education center after it shut down. The Frederick News-Post reports that the colleges will pay $278,000 apiece to break their lease at the Mount Airy College Center for Health Care Education. The money will go […]
August 3, 2016
Policies
State Says Medicaid Plan Won’t Hurt
FRANKFORT, Ky. In his mid-30s, Jonathan Hensley was unemployed and caring for some disabled family members. He needed to take care of himself, too, because his teeth hurt. Historically in Kentucky, someone like Hensley – a single, able-bodied adult with no job — would likely not have had health insurance. But because the state expanded […]
August 3, 2016
Policies
Loan Relief Lures Mental Health Workers
MEDFORD, Ore. — Saddled with $75,000 in student loans, Chy Porter looked for an employer that offered a loan-forgiveness program when she hunted for a job in the mental health field. She chose to go to work as a mental health therapist for Jackson County Health and Human Services, which is competing for mental health […]
August 3, 2016
Policies
Court: Hospital’s White-Only Shifts Are Illegal
OLYMPIA, Wash. —The Washington Supreme Court ruled July 28 that a state psychiatric hospital violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when it issued a directive for white staffers only to work a weekend shift in a ward with a violent patient who had threatened to hurt black employees. In its unanimous ruling, the nine-member high court […]
August 1, 2016
Policies
Video: Jailers Restrained Inmate by Neck
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Caddo County Sheriff’s Office released video of an April incident in which an Oklahoma inmate was restrained by jail staff and died of strangulation. In the video obtained by The Oklahoman newspaper Monday, Darius Robinson, 41, appears to lunge toward jail staff before being tackled to the floor at Caddo County […]
July 28, 2016
Policies
House Panel Wants Shooter’s Medical Record
ST. MARYS, Kan. —The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested all VA medical records for the former Marine who killed three law-enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Florida Rep. Jeff Miller sent a letter dated July 21 to the Department of Veterans Affairs requesting records for Gavin Long, an Iraq […]
July 28, 2016
Policies
Why Black Men Fear Any Police Encounter
Charles Kinsey held his hands in the air and shouted to police that the autistic man sitting on the street next to him wasn’t dangerous. A few seconds later, he felt a bullet rip into his leg. The therapist, who is black and works with people with disabilities, was rounding up a patient who had […]
July 26, 2016
Policies
Jailed, Mentally Ill Rape Victim Sues Houston
HOUSTON —The 25-year-old rape victim, frightened and long-suffering from mental illness, agreed in December to testify against the Houston man who brutally assaulted her in 2013. She hoped to put him behind bars for life. But that decision to testify landed her in the Harris County jail for more than a month over the Christmas […]
July 26, 2016
Policies
Trump’s Mocking of Disabled Is Fodder for Ads
WASHINGTON — Here’s Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here’s her mother, Lauren Glaros: “When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked,“ she says. Then we see Trump, his hands jerking in front of his body as he imitates a reporter who has a condition that […]
July 14, 2016
Policies
Obama: Inaction on Zika Will Delay Vaccine
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has cautioned top lawmakers that continued gridlock over legislation to combat the Zika virus could delay research and development of a vaccine to protect against Zika and tests to detect it. The warning came in a letter July 12 from White House budget chief Shaun Donovan and Health and Human […]
July 14, 2016
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