Joseph Choi

The Biden administration's move to loosen federal regulations on marijuana could help the president make much-needed headway among younger voters, a group that was crucial to his 2020 win but is showing waning enthusiasm for his reelection bid. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s announcement last month that it will move forward with taking marijuana from Schedule...

Presented by AstraZeneca — It's the second year in a row where application numbers dropped {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Medical residents avoiding states with strict abortion laws For the second year in a row, data from the AAMC show students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply...

Presented by AstraZeneca — Around 14 million Americans owe more than $1,000 in medical debt. {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Congressional progressives want to eliminate medical debt Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading an effort to wipe out the medical debt of the entire country. © Getty The legislation introduced Wednesday...

Presented by AstraZeneca — Regulatory agencies have been scrambling to finalize some of their most consequential policies, {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story White House rushing to finalize Biden-era health policies The Biden administration is in a race against the clock to protect the president’s health agenda from a potential second Trump...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story White House extends health insurance access to ‘Dreamers’ The Biden administration on Friday announced it will expand health insurance coverage to 100,000 immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan. © Adobe stock Under the...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Florida, Arizona illustrate complicated abortion landscape Since the end of Roe v. Wade, abortion access has been a state-by-state patchwork of laws that’s almost constantly in flux. That dynamic was on full display Wednesday on opposite sides of...

Following an analysis of vaccine surveillance data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say they have found no evidence of increased risk of ischemic stroke among people 65 and older who receive Pfizer's bivalent booster. After Pfizer's updated, bivalent COVID-19 booster dose was made available, the...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday announced the launch of a pilot program that will allow people to receive free testing, consultation and treatment for COVID-19 from their homes. The NIH estimated up to 8,000 eligible individuals will participate in the pilot program, called the Home Test to Treat program, which will be...

White House health officials are cautioning against a rush to panic over the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, which has rapidly grown to account for 40 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases, with officials stating it is not yet known if this version is more dangerous. As of last week, the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant is responsible for at...