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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
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participate in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City.

Fact-checking Vance’s health policy claims

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted October 2, 2024 at 4:29pm
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee for vice president, is seens at the Republican National Convention on July 17.

On campaign trail, Vance lays out ‘concept of a plan’ for health care

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 26, 2024 at 7:00am
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says the rule would mean that calls and messages to 988 would no longer be "needlessly sent to crisis centers hundreds of miles away.”

FCC to vote to require 988 calls be routed to local call centers

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 25, 2024 at 5:00am
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Filibuster’s future, emergency abortions fuel Senate debate

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:26pm
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee, celebrates on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 22.

Harris ties Georgia deaths to Trump policies

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 20, 2024 at 5:37pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Schumer tees up second vote on IVF

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 3:21pm
A physician measures a pregnant patient's fundal height at Albany Medical Center's department of obstetrics and gynecology in Albany, N.Y..

Two years later, Dobbs decision continues to spur a reckoning

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 7:00am
An abortion rights advocate shows a box of mifepristone outside the Supreme Court on March 26.

For many, incomplete answers on mental health care and pregnancy

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 7:00am
Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, wants to see a reauthorization in 2024.

White House drug control official calls for reauthorization of his office

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 28, 2024 at 5:42am
Jennifer Pepper, the CEO and president of CHOICES, leads a morning staff meeting shortly after the announcement of the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal protection of access to abortion. In October, the Memphis-based CHOICES opened a second location in Carbondale after the Memphis abortion clinic stopped performing abortions.

Post-Roe, Illinois becomes haven for abortion access

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 21, 2024 at 7:00am
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic nominee for president, speaks during a rally to kick off their campaign at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Aug. 6.

In picking Walz, Harris upends notion of ‘women’s issues’

By Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman and Ariel Cohen
Posted August 21, 2024 at 7:00am
A newborn baby boy yawns as he sits with his mother at Emerson Hospital in Massachusetts.

CDC reports drop in US fertility rate

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 20, 2024 at 1:34pm
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is seen in the Capitol on Jan. 23.

Surgeon general hones dual focus on mental health, gun violence

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 14, 2024 at 9:43am
Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Ariz. on April 15. Officials in Arizona and Missouri certified proposed amendments in the states this week.

Arizona and Missouri greenlight abortion rights amendments

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 13, 2024 at 4:54pm
A volunteer medical technologist takes a test blood sample from a student who volunteered for a free HIV testing program at a university in Manila on Sept. 13, 2019.

Parental rights law could thwart fight against HIV

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 12, 2024 at 5:00am
Then-Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., speaks with guests during a campaign event at the University of Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 28, 2016.

Walz’s personal experiences shape his health policy outlook

By Ariel Cohen, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted August 6, 2024 at 3:01pm
Allie Phillips tears up as she testifies about her abortion during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Feb. 28.

Abortion ban spurs grieving mother to run for office

By Sandhya Raman
Posted August 1, 2024 at 7:00am
SAMHSA found that 5.9 million people started vaping nicotine last year, higher than the other substances measured. In 2023, 9.4 percent of the people 12 and older vaped nicotine compared to 8.3 percent of that population in 2022.

SAMHSA finds increase in nicotine vaping, treatment uptake

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 30, 2024 at 4:22pm
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is pictured with his sons Don Jr., left, and Eric, in Fiserv Forum on the first day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.

With Roe overturned, Trump’s GOP turns to transgender health care

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 16, 2024 at 11:26am, Updated at 6:20pm
Tammi Kromenaker, director of Red River Women's clinic, poses in her office at the clinic in Moorhead, Minn., on April 13, 2023.

For at least one abortion clinic, Dobbs eased stressors

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 11, 2024 at 7:00am
Then-President Donald Trump at the White House on Oct. 10, 2019. The Republican National Committee is poised to formally adopt a 2024 platform that largely leaves abortion rights to states.

RNC softens platform stance on abortion

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 8, 2024 at 4:05pm
Women’s March holds a 'die-in' outside of the Supreme Court before the court’s oral arguments in Moyle v. United States in Washington on April 24.

Idaho abortion decision leaves both sides in long-term limbo

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 27, 2024 at 2:13pm
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said she’s focusing on maternal health, including policies providing Medicaid coverage 12 months postpartum.

For CMS administrator, a focus on maternal health

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 26, 2024 at 6:00am, Updated at 4:07pm
Sen. John Fetterman, pictured here on June 4, spoke at the Aspen Ideas: Health conference over the weekend about depression, saying he wants to share his story to help others.

After a ‘rough’ start, Sen. Fetterman opens up about his mental health journey

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 24, 2024 at 2:53pm
Gregory Jackson, deputy director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, speaks at Aspen Ideas: Health on Friday.

At Aspen conference, a call to prioritize stopping gun violence

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 21, 2024 at 4:58pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during Senate Democrats’ news conference in the Capitol on Feb. 27 to discuss the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization.

Senate falls short on IVF vote

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 3:27pm
Activists protest at the Supreme Court as the justices hear oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case on March 26.

Advocates see ‘temporary’ victory in abortion drug ruling

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 2:28pm
A pregnant woman holds her stomach. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landscape for those with both reproductive and mental health needs has become more complicated.

Post-Dobbs, maternal mental health care is even more complicated

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 7:00am
Americans for Contraception unveil a 20-foot inflatable IUD outside Union Station in Washington on Wednesday.

Senate rejects move to codify right to contraception

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 5, 2024 at 6:19pm
Abortion rights activists protest as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization are held on Dec. 1, 2021.

Eyeing Dobbs anniversary, Senate plans IVF, contraception votes

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 4, 2024 at 7:08pm
A box of mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortion and miscarriage management.

Louisiana abortion drug bill latest front in post-Dobbs fight

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 22, 2024 at 4:47pm, Updated May 23, 2024 at 3:20am
The Biden administration this week announced the first national maternal mental health strategy. Twenty-three percent of pregnancy-related deaths are caused by suicide, drug overdose or other outcomes from mental health or substance use disorders.

Administration releases maternal mental health plan

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 15, 2024 at 4:29pm
Activists protest at the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case on Tuesday.

In front of Supreme Court, a nation divided on abortion drug

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 26, 2024 at 2:06pm
Mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on medication abortion drug

By Sandhya Raman and Michael Macagnone
Posted March 22, 2024 at 2:10pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last week. On Wednesday, he appeared before two House panels to discuss President Joe Biden's fiscal 2025 budget.

With fiscal 2024 funding still in the works, Becerra looks to 2025

By Sandhya Raman and Lauren Clason
Posted March 20, 2024 at 5:59pm
Abortion protesters faced off outside the Minnesota Legislature's House Chamber in the State Capitol building, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in St. Paul, Minn., during the first day an abortion bill was being heard in the House. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which focuses on electing Democratic majorities to state legislatures, has identified abortion as a key electoral issue going into the 2024 election cycle.

Memo: State legislative elections will determine abortion policy

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 20, 2024 at 5:00am
Delta-8 supplements on a shelf inside Hippy Bee Dispensary on July 22, 2023, in Garland, Texas.

Growing teen THC use could further complicate cannabis policy

By Sandhya Raman and Lauren Clason
Posted March 14, 2024 at 7:00am
President Joe Biden, pictured here at the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 20, will deliver his State of the Union address on Thursday night.

Biden to renew calls to lower health costs at SOTU

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 6, 2024 at 4:10pm
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., speaks at a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday to discuss the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization.

Senate wades into abortion debate with IVF bill, Budget hearing

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 28, 2024 at 6:35pm
Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks Tuesday during Senate Democrats’ news conference in the Capitol to discuss the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization.

Senate Democrats prepare for IVF push

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 27, 2024 at 12:40pm
Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., arrives for the House Republicans’ caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on May 23, 2023.

Alabama IVF ruling spurs a GOP reckoning on conception bills

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 23, 2024 at 5:36pm, Updated February 26, 2024 at 2:16pm
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., speaks at a news conference on abortion rights on Nov. 1, 2023.

Democrats ask insurers to meet contraceptive coverage mandate

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 22, 2024 at 9:30am
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has called for Senate passage of her bill that would prohibit restrictions on accessing assisted reproductive technology.

Reproductive policy fights renew the focus on IVF

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 20, 2024 at 3:59pm
Democratic Rep. Spencer Wetmore unveils Democrats’ bill to safeguard abortion access in South Carolina last February.

In Carolinas, mental health becomes part of the abortion debate

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 15, 2024 at 7:00am
Former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., has a new documentary one-man show, "Rolling Along," which is now streaming on Max.

Bradley opens up about his experience with abortion

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 5, 2024 at 1:59pm
An electron photomicrograph of two spiral-shaped Treponema pallidum bacteria. T. pallidum Is the causative agent of syphilis.

HHS launches syphilis strategy amid rising cases

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted January 30, 2024 at 2:20pm
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Grappone Conference Center on Jan. 19 in Concord, N.H.

GOP pivots on abortion stance as 2024 nears

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 25, 2024 at 7:00am
President Joe Biden speaks at a ”Reproductive Freedom Campaign Rally" at George Mason University on Tuesday in Manassas, Va. During the first joint rally held by the president and vice president, Biden and Kamala Harris spoke on what they perceive as a threat to reproductive rights.

Biden kicks off reelection push with singular goal: Restore Roe

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 23, 2024 at 7:04pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sent a letter to health payers that receive federal funding to clarify their obligations to cover contraception under the 2010 health care law. The letter was also sent to private insurers as well as state Medicaid programs and Medicare plans.

White House unveils policy push for Roe anniversary

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 22, 2024 at 4:19pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, pictured in the Capitol last month, saw an Israel-only aid package he backed fall short in a House vote Tuesday.

Johnson touts personal story in speech at anti-abortion march

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 19, 2024 at 3:53pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives to speak to reporters about the spending negotiations in the Capitol last Friday. Johnson is scheduled to speak at the March for Life on Friday.

House GOP plans pregnancy-related bills before Roe anniversary

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 16, 2024 at 5:54pm
Demonstrators are seen on Constitution Avenue in Washington during a march for abortion rights. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would take up two cases regarding access to mifepristone, a commonly used abortion drug.

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 13, 2023 at 11:13am