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Policy · 119th Congress

The whoppers of 2025

On Nov. 1, 2024, just before the election, the BLS report showed growth of just 12,000 jobs in October and downward revisions for the prior two months.↵↵Signalgate: Not "total exoneration." 

Policy · 119th Congress

Lawyers say new CDC policy may violate federal disability law

short-term situations allowing for up to 80 hours, or two weeks, of telework, Pamela Protzel Berman, deputy director for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, told her staff in a Dec. 1

Health · 119th Congress

Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting

Roger Marshall, R-Kan., who's also a physician, said while he's "grateful for the vaccine," he harbors concerns about giving it to 1-day-old babies and worries it could impact their immune systems negatively

Congress · 118th Congress

End of public health emergency causes cascade of changes

Those authorities run through Oct. 1, 2024, but because pharmacists operate largely under state laws, the intersection of federal and state policies will be unclear once the emergency expires in

Policy · 117th Congress

Pediatricians beg for more federal help to fight wave of RSV

Just 1 percent of all hospitals receive funding from the program, but they train roughly half of all pediatric residents and fellows, according to data from the Children’s Hospital Association.

Policy · 117th Congress

Possible end of emergency spurs debate on Medicaid

That ship has done sailed’ The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama estimates that expansion would cost the state an average of $225 million per year through 2027, but would result in more than $1

Policy · 117th Congress

Biden ponders marijuana moves as states forge ahead

Corrected 1:37 p.m. | Five states will vote next week on whether to join the 21 states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana for adults.

Policy · 117th Congress

FDA advisory committee votes to pull drug for premature births

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee in a rare move on Wednesday voted 14-1 to pull the only available drug aimed at lowering the risk of premature births from the market, citing a lack of

Policy · 117th Congress

States watch Texas to determine impact of abortion bans

The state implemented its ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on Sept. 1, 2021 — one year ago today, and nine months before the court’s Dobbs v.

Policy · 117th Congress

Federal officials hopeful about monkeypox trajectory

Nearly 1 in 5 respondents said they had received at least one dose of the monkeypox vaccine, with uptake highest among Hispanic or Latino men, at 27.1 percent.

Congress · 117th Congress

Lobbying ramps up around new health agency headquarters

Congress officially enacted ARPA-H with $1 billion in the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending package, but competing bills in the House and Senate would fill in the details of how the agency would operate, how

Policy · 117th Congress

National 988 crisis hotline readied for rollout

Delphin-Rittmon, assistant Health and Human Services secretary for mental health and substance use, said funding from the 2021 COVID-19 relief law allowed the lifeline, still at 1-800-273-TALK, to answer

Congress · 117th Congress

Sprawling $1.5 trillion appropriations package nears finish line

Those provisions complement this fiscal year’s typical installment of military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations, with an extra $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system tacked on

Policy · 117th Congress

Testing shortages reach nursing homes, home health agencies

The issue is raising questions about care for seniors nationwide and whether the administration’s effort to ship 1 billion tests directly to households is further undercutting supplies for providers

Policy · 117th Congress

Pharmacies, governors say Biden test program is depleting supply

The Biden administration’s program to make 1 billion COVID-19 rapid tests available to Americans across the country appears to be exacerbating pharmacy supply shortages and making it more difficult for