Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"DANGER!", House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted Saturday in all caps, adding that the administration is "going further down a dangerous and un-American path" by banning such words as "science-based" and "diversity."(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘DANGER!’: Pelosi warns Trump administration heading towards ‘thought control’ with CDC word ban

Daniel Chaitin · December 16, 2017 7:35 pm

"It's clearer than ever: this administration has disdained women's health, LGBTQ people, and science since day one," Planned Parenthood tweeted Friday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Planned Parenthood says Trump administration’s ‘disdain’ for women’s health is ‘clearer than ever’ after CDC ban on word ‘fetus’

Katie Leach · December 16, 2017 5:16 pm

According to those familiar with the matter, the Trump administration is blacklisting certain words from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2019 budget. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

7 words blacklisted from CDC budget documents: Report

Daniel Chaitin · December 16, 2017 4:16 am

In Brazil, Zika affected thousands of babies born during 2015 and 2016. Zika is a virus typically spread through mosquitoes but can also be spread through sex. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Babies with Zika-caused microcephaly face challenges as they age, research finds

Kimberly Leonard · December 14, 2017 6:29 pm

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, left, speaks as acting director of the National Drug Control Policy Richard Baum looks on during a President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis meeting in Sept. 27. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump administration to launch ‘massive’ media campaign to fight opioid crisis

Kimberly Leonard · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

Fewer people were prescribed medication to cure hepatitis C, prices slowed, and fewer new drugs hit the market. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Prescription drug spending slows after two-year surge

Kimberly Leonard · December 6, 2017 9:00 pm

For almost four decades, the Washington Swamp has acted against the interests of the American people, thwarting a sound approach to HIV prevention. (Screenshot/Vimeo)

At-home HIV tests can still save thousands of lives, and taxpayer funds

Elliott Millenson · December 6, 2017 5:01 am

"We need to use all available resources to discover the medical cause and impact of what happened to our embassy personnel in Cuba," House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Democratic counterpart Eliot Engel of New York wrote in a Tuesday letter. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

National Security

Lawmakers ask CDC, NIH to help State Department investigate Cuba attacks

Joel Gehrke · December 5, 2017 8:36 pm

A narrow tax base reliant on volatile revenue sources, restricted funds and growing spending are all factors that made closing Alaska's budget gap this year very difficult.

Finance and Economy

Alaska should take a page out of Colorado’s tax book

Washington Examiner Staff · November 6, 2017 5:01 am

The Trump administration will provide $10 million to Mathematica Policy Research and RTI International, which are nonpartisan research firms, so they can research on abstinence and assess why the rate of pregnancies among teens has dropped while the spread of some sexually transmitted diseases has increased. (iStock)

Trump administration to fund research on teen pregnancy prevention

Kimberly Leonard · November 3, 2017 6:30 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie chairs a President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s opioid commission recommends ‘aggressive’ outreach on opioid awareness

Kimberly Leonard · November 1, 2017 6:59 pm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 18,000 deaths related to opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2014. In 2015 that number nearly doubled and 45 percent of those deaths involved a prescription. (iStock)

A better strategy for treating chronic pain: Rely less on opioids

Paul Christo · November 1, 2017 4:01 am