Health

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of healthcare in America as ā€œbarbarism,ā€ in an upcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of ā€œBernie: The Podcast,ā€ Ocasio-Cortez expressed her sadness about the high costs of healthcare and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must make, as she committed…

Some individuals living in various northern and central provinces may already feel that the weather is hot enough, but even hotter days are forecast, reaching a peak on April 8, as warned by Somkuan Tonjan,…

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued letters to the editors of three major science journals on Tuesday, asking them to testify on the relationship between their publications and the federal government. Wenstrup sent letters to the editors-in-chief of The Lancet, Science and Nature science journals requesting…

Groups working to protect abortion rights in Arizona's constitution stated on Tuesday that they have gathered enough signatures to put the amendment on the ballot in November. Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition including the ACLU of Arizona, Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, announced they have collected…

Congressional Democrats are planning on how to overturn the Comstock Act, the 19th century law targeted by conservative activists to possibly impose a national abortion ban. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) expressed in a New York Times opinion piece on Tuesday her intention to introduce a bill to remove the Comstock Act as a means to restrict reproductive freedom.