Amid a nationwide measles outbreak, Washington State House and Senate debate whether to limit when parents can exempt their children from the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine,…
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Julia Bascom and Allison Ratto of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders discussed Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). April is Autism Awareness Month.
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Dr. Bernhard Wiedermann of the Children’s National Health System discussed the rise in measles cases in 2019.
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Dr. Andrew Kung of Memorial Sloan Kettering discussed President Trump’s call to boost pediatric cancer research funding by $500 million over the next decade.
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Share Our Strength’s Lisa Davis talked about the group’s No Kid Hungry campaign to combat childhood hunger in the U.S.
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Former leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Child Protection Review Board discussed current investigations into possible sexual abuse and what reforms they recommend.
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First Lady Melania Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar spoke at a conference on neonatal abstinence syndrome at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia,…
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Dr. Paul Spiegel talked about the public health implications of children being separated from their families due to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
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President Trump held a bill signing ceremony in the White House Oval Office for the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2018. Participants included…
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President Trump hosted the White House Sports and Fitness Day on the South Lawn to promote youth sports and physical fitness. Speakers included Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar,…
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group held a news conference to push for reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program…
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Penny Thompson talked about the fiscal condition of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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Lucy Melcher talked about the prevalence of childhood hunger in the U.S. and government programs to combat it.
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Alex Ruoff talked about congressional re-authorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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The House passed a bill to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program for five years. The vote was 242-174. The bill also continued community health centers and other health programs…
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Sandhya Raman talks about the details of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding bill being debated on the House floor that week.
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Paul Howard talked about the future funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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Federal and state advocates of Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to urge members to reauthorize its funding, which was…
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Professor Kelly Whitener talked about the future of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Authorization for CHIP is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2017, unless Congress…
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Dr. Kurt Newman talked about his book Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine, in which he recalls his career as a pediatric surgeon and discusses the…
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