January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Asbestos Compensation Fund |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Gulf Coast Relief |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Head Start Reauthorization |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Medicaid Overhaul |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Medical Errors Reporting |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Pandemic Flu Preparedness |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Parental Consent |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Stem Cell Research Funding |
January 2 - 2005 Legislative Summary: Steroids Regulation |
January 9 - Freeing Bucks for Biotech |
January 9 - House Vote 204: Federal Research on Stem Cells |
January 9 - House Vote 90: Federal Intervention in Schiavo Litigation |
January 16 - Political Economy: Asbestos on the Floor |
January 23 - Editor's Notebook: Panic Attack |
January 23 - Health Groups Target Tobias Pick |
January 23 - Low-Income Seniors' Problems With Medicare Drug Benefit Are Costing States |
January 23 - Parsing the PSA Effect |
January 23 - Project Bioshield: A Second Look |
January 23 - Public Health, Political Priorities of Bioterrorism Research |
January 30 - Legislation of the Body-Snatchers |
January 30 - New Medicare Drug Plan Gets Off to Rocky Start |
February 6 - Asbestos Bill Heads to Senate Floor, Could Stall Because of Points of Order |
February 6 - Bold, Sweeping Agenda: Not This Time |
February 6 - Colorful Messages: Government Contractor Takes a Few Liberties |
February 6 - House Clears $39 Billion Savings Plan |
February 6 - Reauthorization Allows Grants to States for High-Risk Health Insurance Pools |
February 6 - Supplemental Spending Request Covers War, Weather and Disease |
February 13 - A Nation of Health Shoppers |
February 13 - A Revolution in Health Care |
February 13 - Difficult Sticking Points on Asbestos |
February 13 - Lobbyists Benefit From Asbestos Bill |
February 13 - Lobbyists Enslave the World! |
February 13 - Reining In Medicare Costs |
February 13 - The 'Indefatigable' Sen. Specter |
February 13 - Unease With Asbestos Bill Continues |
February 20 - 'Wal-Mart' Medical Bills High on State Agendas |
February 20 - Asbestos Bill Set Back on Point of Order |
February 20 - Targeting Big Business on Health Care |
February 20 - The Well Met DC Set |
February 27 - House Panel Members Set Up Fight Over Funding for Health Care, Benefits |
March 6 - Drug Policy Bill Moves in House |
March 6 - House Debates Food Labeling Bill |
March 6 - Moving Against the Meth Labs |
March 13 - Citizen Protest and the Nurse Threat |
March 20 - Barbour Stubs Out State Tobacco Taxes |
March 20 - Bill to Help Small Businesses Buy Affordable Health Care Advances |
March 20 - Budget Resolution Squeaks By in Senate |
March 20 - Hold Put on Nomination for FDA |
March 20 - Huckabee Sells What He's Lost |
March 20 - Obesity on the Docket |
March 20 - Santorum-Backed Abstinence Plan Too Faith-Based for Feds |
April 3 - Budget Resolution Moves to House Floor |
April 10 - A Sour Showdown Over Low-Cal Sweetener |
April 10 - Better Than a Placebo? |
April 10 - Student Loan Flap's Windfall for Drug War Foes |
April 10 - Supplement Industry Warms Up to Oversight |
April 17 - Details of Budget Reconciliation Law |
April 17 - Liberals Decry MassCare Plan |
April 17 - Medicaid's New Citizenship Requirement |
April 24 - D.C. Crusaders Want Raw Milk to Flow Freely |
May 1 - Client of the Month Club: Lisa Krinsky, Former Chairwoman of SFBC International Inc. |
May 1 - States & Localities: Health Care Tryouts |
May 1 - Wal-Mart Gets Protective Cover in Retail Trade Group |
May 8 - Deviations Drag McCain's Score |
May 8 - Looming Medicare Fixes Make a Bitter Prescription |
May 8 - Reefer Madness on Data Quality Act? |
May 8 - Rural Tug-of-War Over AIDS Law |
May 8 - Trust Funds: Bad News Keeps Coming |
May 15 - Abortion Rights Go Global |
May 15 - Agriculture Appropriations: Non-Money Issues May Slow Action |
May 15 - Foreign Operations Appropriations: Global Programs Get Closer Scrutiny |
May 15 - Health Care Agenda Falters in Senate |
May 15 - History of Rejection: Recent Cloture Votes on Medical Malpractice |
May 15 - Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations: Trouble Before the Pen Hits the Paper |
May 15 - Malpractice Bills Still Stalled |
May 15 - Military Construction-VA Appropriations: Co-Pays, Health Fees Cause Debate |
May 22 - AIDS Relief Groups Break Ranks on Prostitution Pledge |
May 22 - Battling Teen Drinking Tallies |
May 22 - Drug Makers Unite Against Shared Regulatory Enemies |
May 22 - Funding Rules OK'd for AIDS Patients |
May 22 - Medicare Break Gains Support |
May 29 - House Panel Backs Bill to Boost Health Information Technology |
May 29 - House Panel Gives Job Back to HHS |
May 29 - Keeping Soldiers in Fighting Trim |
June 5 - Mandatory Health Insurance Is Romney's Big Pitch |
June 5 - Massachusetts' Health Plan |
June 12 - Highlights of the Supplemental Agreement |
June 12 - Labor-HHS Bill Approved by Panel |
June 12 - Panel OKs Health Information Bill |
June 12 - Smoke Gets In Your Ballot |
June 19 - A Symbolic Gesture in Labor-HHS Bill |
June 19 - Containing Costs A Patient at a Time |
June 19 - Five Questions for Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn. |
June 19 - Medical Records Bill Approved |
June 26 - Homeland Uncertainty Means Proposed Changes for the Department |
June 26 - Pentagon Disavows Outdated Gay Diagnosis |
June 26 - Political Economy: Medicinal Technology |
July 10 - A 'Gotcha' Gay Crusade |
July 10 - Senate Deal Clears Way for Debate on Three Stem Cell Measures |
July 10 - Taking Aim at Dietary Supplements |
July 10 - USDA's New Ground Rules |
July 17 - Gene Grant Recipient Modifies a Superhuman Effort |
July 24 - Bush Protects 'Moral Boundary' |
July 24 - Labor-HHS Bill Gets Approval, Criticism |
July 24 - Mudslinging Over Medicare Study |
July 24 - Senate Panel Approves Autism Funding |
July 24 - Senate Panel Approves Bill to Reauthorize Health Preparedness |
July 24 - Stem Cell Bill Veto Marks a First for This President |
July 31 - Cherry Farmers Run Afoul of FDA |
July 31 - Generic Drug Makers Seek State Protections |
July 31 - House Bill Would Promote Use of Electronic Health Records |
July 31 - Transparency's Opaque Future |
August 7 - Challenging Times |
August 7 - FDA Facing Rough Seas With No Captain |
August 7 - Once More Into the Teeth of the Fluoride Debate |
August 14 - Drug Dissenters Make Terror Link |
August 14 - Microwave Popcorn: Hot Buttered Hazard? |
September 4 - Fall Agenda: Asbestos Claims Compensation |
September 4 - Fall Agenda: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations |
September 4 - Fall Agenda: Transporting Minors for Abortion |
September 4 - Middle Class Lack Health Coverage |
September 4 - Schiavo Case Draws Life Line in Political Sand |
September 4 - Senators Expected to Lift Hold on FDA Pick Because of Approval of Plan B Birth Control |
September 11 - Advocacy Group Takes Aim at FDA Drug-Ad Enforcement |
September 18 - Electronic Medical Records Bill Advances in House Panel |
September 18 - Health Industry Cautiously Eyes State Crackdowns on Medicaid Fraud |
September 18 - Money Directed Toward Hospital Construction |
September 25 - A Timely Drive to Beef Up FDA Enforcement |
September 25 - FDA Nominee Wins Panel OK; GOP Senators Threaten Block |
September 25 - New Agency Would Take Aim at Bioweapons, Pandemic Disease |
October 2 - Barton's 'Signature Achievement,' NIH Renewal, Passed by House |
October 2 - Drugmakers' Battle for Medicare Market Share |
October 2 - House Bill Would Redirect AIDS Funds From Urban to Rural Areas |
October 2 - House Panel Backs Expansion of Tax-Deferred Savings Plans |
October 2 - House Vaccine Bill to Be Included In Senate's Preparedness Measure |
October 2 - Unions Fear Major Reversal from NLRB |
October 9 - A Conservative Inquiry into Obesity Ads |
October 16 - Doctors Slow to Embrace Electronic Health Records |
October 23 - Changing Face of AIDS a Legislative Dilemma |
October 23 - Do the Problems of Two Insurance Providers Amount to a Hill of Beans in this Crazy World? |
October 23 - Edwards' Efforts for the Poor |
October 23 - New Perspectives on Poverty |
October 30 - A Hot Tuna Controversy |
October 30 - Coburn's Accidental Condom Crusade |
November 13 - 110th Senate Committees: Health, Education, Labor and Pensions |
November 13 - 110th Senate Committees: Special Aging |
November 13 - Cloning Issue Reaches FDA |
November 20 - Democrats' First 100 Hours: Big Pharma Braces for Heavier Federal Hand in Drug Pricing Policy |
November 20 - Democrats' First 100 Hours: GOP Change of Heart, Democratic Unity Needed to Overturn Bush Stem Cell Policy |
November 27 - Five Questions for David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow |
November 27 - Money Sought to Treat Post-Terrorism Problems |
November 27 - Pharma Braces for Battle |
November 27 - Steering Left for Right Contacts |
December 4 - Hitching a Ride on the Tax Bill |
December 4 - Items on AFL-CIO's To-Do List for Congress |
December 11 - Cleared Autism-Research Bill Is Santorum's Closing Act |
December 11 - Lawmakers Reach Agreement to Prevent Physician Pay Cuts |
December 11 - Report Assails White House Spending on AIDS Prevention |
December 11 - Senate Votes to Confirm FDA Nominee |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: AIDS Programs Reauthorization |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Asbestos Compensation Fund |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Bioterrorism Defense Reauthorization |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Budget Reconciliation |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Drug Importation |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Health Information Technology Promotion |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Health Savings Accounts Benefits |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: NIH Restructuring |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Older Americans Act Renewal |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Stem Cell Research Funding |
December 18 - 2006 Legislative Summary: Tax Break Extensions |
December 18 - AIDS Bill Clears in Deal on Two Others |
December 18 - FDA Guidelines: Visions of Lead-Free Sugarplums |