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Then-Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., speaks with guests during a campaign event at the University of Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 28, 2016.

Policy

Walz’s personal experiences shape his health policy outlook

Mother’s medical debt after father’s death from cancer ‘shaped me later in life’

By Ariel Cohen, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted August 6, 2024 at 3:01pm

President Joe Biden addresses the media in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Feb. 16.

Policy

Biden administration targets unexpected health costs

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 7, 2023 at 5:00am
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf testifies during a Senate Appropriations hearing in April. The agency is expected to decide on Thursday whether to approve a new Alzheimer's drug.

Policy

Expected Alzheimer’s drug approval signals new era in treatment

By Lauren Clason
Posted July 6, 2023 at 5:00am
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pictured here, joined ranking committee member Bill Cassidy, R-La., in releasing draft language on a key pandemic preparedness bill.

Congress

Senate releases bipartisan draft of emergency preparedness bill

By Lauren Clason
Posted July 3, 2023 at 4:39pm
Demonstrators appear outside the Supreme Court on March 23, 2016, as religious organizations were challenging the 2010 health insurance law's provision requiring employer health plans to cover birth control.

Biden order aims to protect, expand contraception access

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 23, 2023 at 9:30am
A COVID-19 vaccination record card is pictured at the new mass vaccination site inside the former Lord & Taylor store at Tysons Corner Center in Virginia on April 19, 2021.

Biden dropping vaccination mandates for travelers, workers

By Daniela Altimari
Posted May 9, 2023 at 2:29pm
Sen. John Fetterman arrives at the Capitol on Tuesday for a Senate classified briefing on unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron.

Fetterman hospitalized for treatment of depression

By Niels Lesniewski and Sandhya Raman
Posted February 16, 2023 at 3:28pm, Updated at 6:05pm
A bookmark for children with the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline emergency telephone number is displayed by a volunteer with the Natrona County Suicide Prevention Task Force while speaking about mental health and suicide awareness in Casper, Wyo. on Aug. 14, 2022.

CDC: Teen girls see spike in behavioral health concerns

By Sandhya Raman
Posted February 13, 2023 at 3:43pm
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers the Republican response to the State of the Union address by President Joe Biden on Tuesday in Little Rock, Ark.

In GOP rebuttal, Sanders cites Biden’s age, calls him ‘unfit’

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 8, 2023 at 12:35am
Mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen in June at a New Mexico women's clinic that provides legal medication abortion services. The DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a case that would ban the drug.

Lawsuits show focus of abortion battle shifting to medication

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 25, 2023 at 3:48pm