Alejandra OConnell-Domenech

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Rival manufacturers fight for the right to sell weight loss drugs There’s a new fight brewing between manufacturers of weight loss drugs and the compounding pharmacies that have been allowed to make copycat versions during shortages. © AP...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Supreme Court won’t take up Texas emergency abortion case The court declined to take up an appeal of a decision involving emergency abortions in Texas, letting stand a ruling that allows the state to deny abortions that violate...

Former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are seeking to soften their stance on abortion and blunt Democratic attacks in the final month before the election. Trump on Tuesday, during the vice presidential debate, declared he would veto any national abortion ban legislation, after previously refusing to say whether he would...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story How the VP contenders could go on attack over health care Health care has featured prominently in the presidential campaign so far, and Tuesday's debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) could be...

House Committee on Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra late last week for documents on the whereabouts of thousands of migrant children in the United States.   In a letter informing Becerra of the subpoena, Green wrote he previously requested documents in August on the “vetting, screening and...

Nearly 40 percent of Generation Z men do not have a primary care provider, according to a Cleveland Clinic survey.   The survey defines Generation Z as including people born between 1997 and 2005.   Thirty-seven percent of Gen Z men do not have an established primary care provider — the highest rate of any...

A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified. The paper, published Thursday in the scientific journal Cell, builds off preliminary research released last year that pointed to a raccoon dog as a possible host...

The United States healthcare system was deemed the worst overall in a new analysis of 10 similar nations by a leading health research nonprofit. "Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Healthy System," published by The Commonwealth Fund Thursday, looked at 70 healthcare systems in 10 wealthy nations including Australia, Canada, the United...

Presented by Plan B One Step — Democrats are pushing to extend subsidies that are set to expire next year {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Democrats press for ACA subsidies extension The enhanced ObamaCare subsidies established through the Inflation Reduction Act are set to expire at the end of 2025 and...

Vaccine access of Americans, especially for children and the elderly, is “critically important,” Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN) said Tuesday. “We need to get back to a normal place where we understand that vaccination has really changed the world,” Bucshon said during “Boosting the Status Quo: Vaccinating America’s Most Vulnerable,” a panel event hosted by The...