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Milk producers would be able to sell raw, unpasteurized milk in Iowa if the state Senate approves a bill that has already made it through the House of Representatives. Healthcare and agricultural groups, including the Iowa Public Health Association, Iowa Farm Bureau, and Iowa State Dairy Association, are on record as being opposed to the

Public Health & Policy > Health Policy — Republicans slam increased Title X funding, question funding of transgender surgery by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today March 28, 2023 Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee sparred on Tuesday over provisions in President Biden's budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services

California lawmakers on Monday approved the nation’s first penalty for price gouging at the pump, voting to give regulators the power to punish oil companies for profiting from the type of gas price spikes that plagued the nation’s most populous state last summer. The Democrats in charge of the state Legislature worked quickly to pass

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued the inmates were being “treated as political prisoners,” while Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett “didn’t see anything that was...

Congressional lawmakers have asked the State Department to warn Americans that some Mexican pharmacies are selling counterfeit pills tainted with fentanyl...

Skip to main content February 24, 2023 12:53 PM Keely Larson, Kaiser Health News Wes Thompson, administrator of Valley View Home in the northeastern Montana town of Glasgow, cites local tax levies and luck as the only reasons his skilled nursing facility has avoided the fate of the 11 nursing homes that closed in the

Skip to main content February 09, 2023 11:41 AM ST. PAUL, Minn. — Lawmakers went to work Wednesday on a proposal to allow all residents to buy into the state-run MinnesotaCare health insurance program, not just low-income workers struggling to get by. Democratic legislators and Gov. Tim Walz have been pushing for several years to

Public Health & Policy > Opioids — House members also look for ways to stop drug trafficking on Snapchat by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today February 2, 2023 Could dropping the "X-waiver" have unintended consequences? That's what some House members suggested during a hearing on ways to address the fentanyl crisis, along with other