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The March for Life in January 2025.

Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 22, 2026 at 10:57am
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, seen in the Capitol on Tuesday, says she has not given up seeking a compromise on extension of health insurance subsidies. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump health plan asks Congress for drug, insurance legislation

By Sandhya Raman, Ariel Cohen and Lia DeGroot
Posted January 15, 2026 at 7:19pm
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said there had been an "intervention" to prevent funding cuts.

White House reverses $2 billion cut to mental health, addiction grants

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 14, 2026 at 2:51pm, Updated at 8:30pm
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., arrives for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 7, 2025.

Zero-dollar premiums sticking point in Senate health talks

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Ariel Cohen
Posted January 7, 2026 at 6:27pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives for Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Dec. 9.

States eager for final decisions on $50B health care fund

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 24, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., was one of the GOP signees.

House Republicans join Democrats to force vote on ACA subsidies

By Sandhya Raman, Jessie Hellmann, Lia DeGroot and Ariel Cohen
Posted December 17, 2025 at 1:25pm
Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., leave a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Dec. 4, 2024.

House GOP unveils draft health bill package

By Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted December 15, 2025 at 4:33pm
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is leading some GOP moderates in a push for a short-term extension of health insurance subsidies.

Last chance for the year

By Sandhya Raman, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted December 15, 2025 at 2:29pm
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., filed a discharge petition that would force a vote on a two-year extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Moderate House Republicans look to force vote on ACA tax credits

By Jessie Hellmann, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted December 10, 2025 at 6:24pm
Senate HELP Chairman Bill Cassidy speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Capitol for a vote on Wednesday.

Senate panel sees opening, however slight, for health care deal

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 3, 2025 at 4:14pm
Then-Rep. Ralph Abraham, R-La., is seen in the Capitol in June 2018.

Louisiana surgeon general Abraham installed as deputy at CDC

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 25, 2025 at 5:04pm
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., talks with reporters outside the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on June 10.

Bipartisan health subsidy bill adds income caps, anti-fraud measures

By Sandhya Raman and Ariel Cohen
Posted November 21, 2025 at 3:55pm
Tillis says there's too much “cross talk” in the health insurance debate.

Senate appears polarized as health care subsidy cliff nears

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 19, 2025 at 3:42pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said of House efforts, "We're not here to bail out insurance companies."

Trump draws line in sand on extending ACA credits

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 18, 2025 at 6:01pm
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., seen here at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 7, said there's "no way" Republicans would vote for the Democratic proposal to end the shutdown.

Republicans denounce new Democratic offer to end shutdown

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 7, 2025 at 6:33pm, Updated at 7:01pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune walks to his office after opening the Senate floor Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate leaders prepare to test Democratic unity on shutdown

By Jessie Hellmann, Jacob Fulton, Sandhya Raman, Aris Folley and Ariel Cohen
Posted November 6, 2025 at 7:27pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Democrats torn over shutdown endgame after election victories

By Sandhya Raman, Jessie Hellmann, Lia DeGroot, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted November 5, 2025 at 7:32pm
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, R-Va. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Republican moderates press leadership on health credit extension

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted October 22, 2025 at 12:36pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on the eighth day of the government shutdown on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025.

Democrats seize on conservative support as hope to end shutdown

By Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted October 8, 2025 at 5:37pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer conducts a news conference on the third day of the partial government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday.

Shutdown drags on amid talk of side deals to get stopgap unstuck

By Ariel Cohen, Sandhya Raman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 3, 2025 at 6:36pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks during a news conference about the government shutdown on Wednesday. Also attending are, from left, GOP Rep. Kevin Hern, House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Senate Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton and GOP Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and James Lankford.

Republicans hammer immigration rhetoric on health care, though details are elusive

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted October 1, 2025 at 1:59pm
Sen. Maria Cantwell Cantwell on Thursday issued a snapshot report on rate increase requests from insurers across the country.

Health insurance marketplace rate hikes top 20 percent in most states, Cantwell says

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 25, 2025 at 1:50pm
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is seeking a middle ground in the battle to extend expiring health subsidies.

Health subsidies standoff

By David Lerman and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 22, 2025 at 6:21pm
Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says Republicans are showing a “complete lack of urgency” in addressing expiring health insurance subsidies.

Permanent health tax credit extension would insure 3.8 million: CBO

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 18, 2025 at 5:34pm
Rep. Bryan Steil finds himself at the center of talks to keep the government open.

GOP leaders try to quell stopgap concerns as House vote nears

By Aidan Quigley, Sandhya Raman and David Lerman
Posted September 17, 2025 at 8:59pm
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., has legislation that would help in early detection and treatment.

Actors Moore, Nyong’o push for women’s health on Hill

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 16, 2025 at 1:00pm
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing this month.

Kennedy adds vaccine advisers just before panel convenes

By Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted September 15, 2025 at 6:04pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could face more questions from Republicans about the leadership shake-up at the CDC.

Some Republicans expect answers from RFK Jr. on agency turmoil

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 4, 2025 at 5:48am
Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., is looking to address telehealth and other health provisions that expire at the end of September.

Key House committee lays groundwork for health extenders

By Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted September 3, 2025 at 4:11pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the inaugural Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall on Aug. 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump’s health agency streamlining goals hit roadblock

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 18, 2025 at 8:13am
Swedish tobacco shops offer a larger variety of smokeless products than their U.S. counterparts, like these pouches on display in March. But experts say their popularity has actually disguised a rise in nicotine and tobacco use.

Sweden’s push for smokeless products leads some to wonder about risks

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 6, 2025 at 6:00am
A Stockholm tobacco shop displays a selection of Zyn brand nicotine pouches.

Navigating the unknown

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 6, 2025 at 6:00am
A participant is seen at the New York State Capitol at an overdose prevention event in 2023 urging lawmakers to implement harm reduction strategies.

Harm reduction techniques being phased out under Trump

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted August 5, 2025 at 7:00am
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on April 2.

Judge shields all Planned Parenthood clinics from defunding

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 28, 2025 at 12:28pm
The March for Life proceeds down Constitution Avenue after a rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24.

Planned Parenthood clinics reel from Republicans’ budget law

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 25, 2025 at 4:07pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., talks with reporters after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Lawmakers hope to modify crucial dates in reconciliation bill

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 16, 2025 at 5:33pm
Father and son Bengt Wiberg, left, and Daniel Wiberg are pictured in their office. The father and son run Stingfree AB, which sells nicotine pouches. Both are former smokers who say this has helped them.

In Sweden, smokeless products drive tobacco harm reduction push

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 10, 2025 at 7:01am
Activists opposing funding for Planned Parenthood demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on April 2.

Planned Parenthood challenges GOP reconciliation law

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 7, 2025 at 2:43pm
Speaker Mike Johnson holds up the final vote total on passing President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" budget reconciliation bill on Thursday.

Mammoth budget bill heads to Trump’s desk in time for July Fourth

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 3, 2025 at 2:50pm, Updated at 3:11pm
An Architect of the Capitol worker wheels a bin full of empty pizza boxes from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office as the House prepares for a long night on Wednesday.

House nears passage of sweeping GOP budget bill

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 3, 2025 at 12:24am, Updated at 3:55am
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., right, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., do TV interviews in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Vibe shift in House as Trump, GOP leaders begin to flip votes

By David Lerman, Sandhya Raman, Olivia M. Bridges, David Jordan and Lia DeGroot
Posted July 2, 2025 at 7:30pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters before heading to the House chamber for a procedural vote on Wednesday.

GOP leaders work to convince House holdouts on budget package

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot, David Jordan and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 2, 2025 at 4:32pm
The March for Life proceeds down Constitution Avenue after their rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24.

Senate abortion provider defunding language OK’d by parliamentarian

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 30, 2025 at 6:20pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz hold a news conference at HHS headquarters on Monday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 23, 2025 at 5:10pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP mulls shielding rural hospitals from Medicaid cuts

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 20, 2025 at 6:02am
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., seen here on June 10, said Medicaid cuts must be scaled back before he could vote for the reconciliation bill.

Medicaid and ‘SALT’ divide GOP

By Caitlin Reilly, Sandhya Raman and David Lerman
Posted June 17, 2025 at 3:59pm
Helen Stjerna, secretary-general of A Non Smoking Generation, speaks from her office in Stockholm.

In Sweden, teen anti-tobacco movement stalled by pouches, snus

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 12, 2025 at 7:00am
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shown at a news conference on April 16, named new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday, after firing all 17 former panel members earlier this week.

Kennedy’s vaccine panel contains skeptics, nonspecialists

By Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 11, 2025 at 9:08pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, talks with Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in May.

Kennedy makes ‘clean sweep’ of key vaccine advisory panel

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 9, 2025 at 6:57pm
"I think anything we can do that's waste, fraud and abuse are open to discussions," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said when asked if Medicare cuts are on the table. Above, Thune appears at a news conference in the Capitol Tuesday.

Medicare cuts in play as Senate GOP hones budget bill

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 5, 2025 at 9:10pm
Ranking member Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., gives a thumbs down as he speaks during the House Budget Committee markup of the reconciliation bill in the Cannon House Office Building on Friday, May 16, 2025.

16 million lose insurance under budget bill, other policies: CBO

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 4, 2025 at 5:27pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrives to testify during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing titled "FY2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget,” in Dirksen building on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:21pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives to testify Wednesday at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.

Kennedy defends budget request but is silent on big HHS changes

By Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted May 14, 2025 at 5:21pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he opposes the reconciliation bill partly because it wouldn't cut Medicaid deeply enough.

Medicaid cuts in play

By David Lerman, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted May 12, 2025 at 6:17pm
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives to a meeting with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and House and Senate Republicans in the Capitol Visitor Center about President-elect Donald Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency," on Dec. 5, 2024.

Most controversial Medicaid cuts left out of reconciliation text

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted May 12, 2025 at 2:55pm
A Stockholm tobacco shop displays a selection of Zyn brand nicotine pouches.

As Sweden regulates nicotine products, US pulls back

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 8, 2025 at 7:01am
Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives to a meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

Conservatives chafe at taking Medicaid savings options off table

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted May 7, 2025 at 4:15pm
“It’s going to take a lot more of these kinds of conversations, ultimately, to get to an understanding that 99 percent of the House Republican Conference can agree with,” Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., shown in February, said Tuesday.

House GOP drops some Medicaid cuts from reconciliation plan

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Olivia M. Bridges
Posted May 6, 2025 at 10:47pm
The fiscal 2026 budget plan would back the agenda of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

At HHS, proposed cuts to medical research and public health programs

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 2, 2025 at 4:52pm
Exterior of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta.

US, Europe diverge on infectious disease messaging

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 16, 2025 at 3:00pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, appears with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Thursday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Kennedy pledges to find autism cause by September

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 10, 2025 at 5:00pm
Jesper Karlsson, a Moderate Party member of Sweden's parliament, has advocated for the concept of tobacco harm reduction in the Riksdag.

In Sweden, a focus on smokeless tobacco

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 10, 2025 at 7:00am
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court as the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case is heard in Washington on Wednesday.

In front of Supreme Court, a reckoning for Planned Parenthood

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 2, 2025 at 5:11pm, Updated at 6:21pm
Matt Cutler, right, a former Health and Human Services employee who was fired on Tuesday, talks with Maine independent Sen. Angus King, left, inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday.

HHS layoffs cut deep swath through health infrastructure

By Sandhya Raman, Lia DeGroot and Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 1, 2025 at 6:06pm
The March for Life proceeds down Constitution Avenue after their rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24.

Fully in power, GOP targets Planned Parenthood

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 27, 2025 at 4:22pm, Updated March 31, 2025 at 12:52pm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington on March 10.

HHS to cut 10,000 jobs, ‘streamline’ operations

By Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted March 27, 2025 at 11:20am
Jay Bhattacharya, confirmed Tuesday as director of the National Institutes of Health, is shown as he prepared to testify during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on March 5.

Senate confirms Bhattacharya to lead NIH

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 25, 2025 at 7:31pm
The exterior of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Chamblee, Ga., March 18, 2025.

Trump to tap Monarez to lead CDC

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 24, 2025 at 4:48pm
Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives to a meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on Dec. 5.

Medicaid work rules have increased coverage loss, not employment

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 7:00am, Updated March 3, 2025 at 3:16pm
“Entitlements are difficult to deal with, and I say that from experience, because we worked a long, long time on Medicaid,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate Republicans divided on Medicaid cuts in budget plan

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted February 20, 2025 at 8:13am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta is pictured on Aug. 6, 2022.

Judge temporarily blocks agencies from removing health data

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 11, 2025 at 3:10pm
A researcher demonstrates pipetting viscous genomic DNA at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in Rockville, Md., in 2023.

Judge temporarily blocks NIH research cuts after 22 states sue

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted February 10, 2025 at 4:00pm, Updated February 11, 2025 at 7:03pm
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, and Mark Warner, D-Va., led 22 members of Congress in a letter to acting Health and Human Services Secretary Dorothy Fink citing concerns about the “significant delays” that health centers and other HRSA grantees have been experiencing.

Community health centers caught up in funding freeze

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 7:01pm
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speak to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to North Carolina and California on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Trump executive order targets transgender care

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted January 28, 2025 at 6:45pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Jan. 15.

Pause to AIDS funding leaves health experts scrambling

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 28, 2025 at 4:20pm, Updated at 5:21pm
University of Mary students carry signs as they arrive for the March for Life rally on the National Mall in Washington on Friday.

Trump reinstates GOP abortion policies after addressing rally

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 25, 2025 at 12:38pm
Anti-abortion activists arrive for the March for Life rally on the National Mall in Washington on Friday.

Republicans unify messaging at annual March for Life

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 24, 2025 at 4:32pm
The 50th annual March for Life makes its way down Constitution Avenue in Washington on Jan. 20, 2023.

GOP majority renews focus on abortion 

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 23, 2025 at 6:30am
The FDA authorized the 20 Zyn products under a premarket tobacco product application process granted under a 2009 tobacco control law.

FDA authorizes first nicotine pouches

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 16, 2025 at 4:50pm
In this photo illustration, bottles of the generic prescription pain medication buprenorphine are seen in a pharmacy in Boca Raton, Florida. The narcotic drug is used as an alternative to methadone to help treat opioid use disorder.

DEA, HHS finalize rule allowing telehealth drug treatment

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:40pm
Red Dye No. 3 can have deleterious health effects. The ring is a strawberry Ring Pop (red no. 40 and red no. 3).

FDA moves to ban Red Dye No. 3, years after groups petitioned agency 

By Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 2:59pm
A close-up view of cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday released a proposed rule that would limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and some other combustible tobacco products.

FDA moves to limit nicotine in cigarettes, some other tobacco

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 2:49pm
Robert Kennedy, Jr., nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives for his meeting with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

Kennedy faces questions about food, vaccines in GOP meetings

By Ariel Cohen, Lia DeGroot, Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted December 17, 2024 at 6:53pm, Updated December 18, 2024 at 3:11pm
Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity.

White House rule would expand coverage of anti-obesity drugs 

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 26, 2024 at 10:57am, Updated at 3:46pm
President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on Tuesday in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump’s first week in office may set tone on abortion policy

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 20, 2024 at 4:06pm
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during a hearing of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on July 20, 2023.

Trump taps RFK Jr. to lead HHS

By Ariel Cohen, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted November 14, 2024 at 5:44pm
Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the committee's health subcommittee, are among the key health policy players retiring at the end of this Congress.

New Congress brings churn in health policy leadership

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 13, 2024 at 7:56pm
Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, attends a campaign rally in Holland, Ohio, on Oct. 26.

Latta eyes top GOP spot on Energy and Commerce panel

By Sandhya Raman
Posted November 7, 2024 at 5:54pm
Sarah McBride, Democrat representative-elect for Delaware, is seen on the second night of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 20.

How key results could influence health policy

By Sandhya Raman, Lia DeGroot and Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 6, 2024 at 4:10pm, Updated at 7:28pm
Pro-abortion rights activists participate in the "Rally for Our Freedom" to protect abortion rights for Floridians, in Orlando, Florida, on April 13, 2024. The initiative failed to meet the 60 percent threshold for passage Tuesday.

Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska reject abortion ballot issues

By Sandhya Raman and Ariel Cohen
Posted November 6, 2024 at 10:26am
National Women’s Strike holds a protest marking the second anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24. Ten states will vote on ballot initiatives involving abortion access on Nov. 5.

Ten states to vote on abortion access Nov. 5

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 31, 2024 at 7:00am
A box of mifepristone is held up outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26. Abortion opponents have repeatedly challenged regulations to and the approval of the drug.

Appeals court hears drugmaker’s challenge to abortion restrictions

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 29, 2024 at 4:36pm
An empty room in CHOICES - Memphis Center for Reproductive Health. The clinic sent abortion services to Illinois after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Bills exclude mental health from emergency abortion exceptions

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 29, 2024 at 9:34am
Patients to CHOICES - Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, can still receive pregnancy care or out-of-state abortion referrals. The clinic was the first nonprofit clinic to house a birthing center and provide abortions.

For reproductive health workers, a big change since the Dobbs ruling

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 29, 2024 at 6:30am
Laura Gillen, Democratic candidate for New York's 4th District, greets a guest during a campaign rally with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in Hempstead, N.Y., on Oct. 17. Gillen is challenging Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., and has made reproductive rights a part of her campaign.

Abortion rights at forefront of Democrats’ closing arguments

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Sandhya Raman
Posted October 25, 2024 at 3:26pm
Democrats are running ads focused on abortion access in swing states Pennsylvania and Arizona, focusing specifically on state legislative races.

DLCC launches abortion ad blitz in Arizona and Pennsylvania

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 21, 2024 at 9:28am, Updated at 2:26pm
Sign for Opill over-the-counter birth control pill at a pharmacy in San Francisco. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

White House rule would expand access to cost-free birth control

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 21, 2024 at 6:42am
Pill Man, a skeleton made from activist Frank Huntley’s OxyContin and methadone prescription bottles, is seen on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House on Aug. 30, 2019. After a pandemic-era spike, drug overdose deaths are finally trending downward.

CDC reports record drop in drug overdose deaths

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 16, 2024 at 3:55pm
A bookmark with the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline emergency telephone number is displayed a volunteer with the Natrona County Suicide Prevention Task Force in Casper, Wyo., on Aug. 14, 2022.

Survey: Most adults affected by suicide, want more prevention

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 9, 2024 at 9:50am
A view inside the Georgia Supreme Court in Atlanta.

Two abortion rulings could weigh into elections in Georgia, Texas

By Sandhya Raman and Daniela Altimari
Posted October 7, 2024 at 5:25pm, Updated at 8:40pm