Friday, July 21, 2023: D.C. News

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Bernie Sanders, unveiled a legislative package Wednesday with billions in funding for community health centers and training of primary care doctors and other clinicians. The Primary Care and...

Wednesday, July 19, 2023: D.C. News

The White House plans to impose a 10-year funding ban on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab at the center of the COVID-19 origins debate, according to a government memo and an official familiar with the issue. The memo, written by an official at the Department...

Tuesday, July 18, 2023: D.C. News

Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its withdrawal of two policy statements outlining its former position on antitrust enforcement in health care markets, echoing a similar decision from the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year. The agencies’...

Wednesday, July 5, 2023: D.C. News

A federal judge in Louisiana ordered key Biden administration officials and agencies not to contact social media platforms to suppress speakers and viewpoints they disagree with, a major development that pits free-speech rights against government efforts to curb...

Tuesday, May 23, 2023: D.C. News

Congressional Democrats are having second thoughts about taking back unspent coronavirus funds as part of a debt limit deal, concerned that doing so could have serious consequences for myriad public health initiatives. House Appropriations Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro...

Tuesday, May 16, 2023: D.C. News

President Joe Biden on Monday nominated cancer specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to become director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bertagnolli is a cancer surgeon and researcher who, last fall became the first female head of the NIH’s National Cancer...