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The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held the first of two days of hearings on the role e-cigarettes play in the youth nicotine epidemic. Child…

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on protecting children online and data privacy. Witnesses discussed the prevalence of online predators using social media to exploit minors,…

Paul Gionfriddo of Mental Health America discussed mental health care in the U.S. amid suggestions that better mental health screenings would prevent gun violence.

Dr. Matt McCarthy talked about his book, Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic, in which he reported on his search for a new antibiotic treatment for superbug bacteria.

Bioethicist Travis Rieder explored the opioid crisis and shared his own experience with opioid dependency. Mr. Rieder is the author of In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel talked about his book, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, in which he explored the…

Bassey Ikpi spoke with Book TV about her forthcoming book, I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying, her upcoming memoir focusing on her mental health care.

Contributors to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Bio-Medical Model read selections from this book of essays and poems on the mental…

This portion of the the third annual Pandemic and Biosecurity Forum included a series of panel discussions focused on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speakers…

The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other insular territories of the U.S.A. Representatives from the territories…

Author Travis Rieder talked about his book, In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on prescription drug prices and their impact on patients. Four patients and one advocate for lowering drug prices told the committee…

Four federal transportation policy officials testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on safety issues and proposed legislation extending national surface…

The Senate Cybersecurity Caucus held a discussion on cyber threats facing the health care industry. Two experts outlined examples of risks and policy recommendations to address them. These…

James Greenwood from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) talked about the price of prescription drugs in the US.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing on efforts to protect children and consumers from hazardous products. Among the witnesses were Consumer Reports Home and Products…

Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was one of the participants in a town hall on health care hosted by community organizers from the Detroit area in Highland Park, Michigan.

The Senate Health Committee held a hearing examining bipartisan legislation aimed at lowering the cost of health care. Witnesses agreed that the “Lower Health Care Costs Act” was the right…

Patients For Affordable Drugs Founder and President David Mitchell talked about efforts to lower prescription drug prices.

The Cuyahoga River fire of 1969 helped galvanize the clean water and environmental movements, even though it was not the worst fire the polluted river had seen. Historian David Stradling…