Washington, June 13 (IANS) Bipartisan lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to restore specialised crisis services for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline after federal health officials acknowledged Congress directed the programme’s return but said they were still determining how to implement it.Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat who authored the bipartisan 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Access Act, said Congress had already settled the issue a…
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Washington, June 10 (IANS) A group of Democratic senators has warned that the United States is ill-prepared to respond to major public health threats, citing a worsening Ebola epidemic, leadership vacancies across federal health agencies and deep staffing cuts under the Trump administration.In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., led by Senators Patty Murray and Tim Kaine, lawmakers said the administration’s actions had weakened America’s ability to detect…
Washington, May 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a major expansion of his administration’s prescription drug discount platform, claiming Americans would now have access to hundreds of additional low-cost medicines through the government-backed website TrumpRX.gov.At a healthcare affordability event at the White House, Trump said the number of medicines available on the platform would increase nearly seven-fold, with more than 600 generic drugs being added in partnership …
Washington, May 11 (IANS) President Donald Trump on Monday announced a new fertility benefit option for employers and launched a maternal healthcare initiative aimed at expanding access to IVF, childcare and rural maternal care across the United States.Speaking at a White House event, Trump said the Department of Labor would formally create a fertility benefit option that employers could offer outside traditional health insurance plans.“Most healthcare plans do not cover these benefits,” Tru…
Washington, May 6 (IANS) US President Donald Trump announced the revival of the Presidential Fitness Test, restoring a decades-old programme that had been phased out during the Obama administration, as he joined athletes, cabinet officials and children at the White House to promote youth fitness and competitive sports.Speaking at a White House event attended by professional athletes including golfer Bryson DeChambeau, golfer Gary Player and former NHL player T. J. Oshie, Trump said the initiativ…
Washington, April 24 (IANS) US President Donald Trump announced sweeping agreements with major pharmaceutical companies to lower prescription drug costs, calling it “the biggest cut in drug prices in the history of our country.”Speaking at the White House, Trump said one of the leading firms, Regeneron, had agreed to offer medicines at “most favoured nation prices,” adding that “the numbers will come down at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”“With this announcement, 17 of th…
Washington, Apr 18 (IANS) U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order to accelerate research, approval, and access to experimental mental health treatments based on psychedelic drugs, describing the move as a “historic reform” aimed in part at tackling a growing suicide crisis among military veterans. Announcing the decision at a White House event, Trump said the order would “dramatically accelerate access to new medical research and treatments” that have shown “l…
New York, March 8 (IANS) Indian-American scientist Vinay Prasad, who oversees the approval process for vaccines and new therapies, is stepping down amid controversies over his decisions to tighten certain regulations. His departure for the second time from the post of director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research within a year was announced on Friday by the agency’s head, Marty Makary.Prasad had quit his job in July, less than two months after ta…
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist, is taking over the leadership of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the acting director of the world’s premier medical research organisation.Bhattacharya, who now heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will simultaneously hold the CDC position, he told NBC News, confirming several earlier news reports.He steps into the CDC, which, like the rest of the federal health establishment, has been enmeshe…
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order launching what he called the Great American Recovery Initiative, a national effort aimed at combating addiction and substance abuse by coordinating federal, state, local, and private-sector resources.Calling addiction “a big deal in this country and probably in every country,” Trump said the initiative was designed to help Americans “get the help and the support that they need to free themselves from the …