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By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang [Ed. Note: This will be the last intern round-up of the academic year, to resume in the Fall. Thanks, Hyeongsu and Kathy!] The Food and Drug Administration announced…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Harvard University announced on Wednesday that it would shut down its primate research center over the next two years. The facility has been cited for animal welfare violations, but…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Looking seriously at the issue of the federal regulation that could require insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon questions the implication of…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang The Obama administration launched a new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain. The project aims to provide a better…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang New York State is being sued by Jeffrey Monsour, a state-employed caregiver to people with developmental disabilities. Monsour claims that the state had unfairly retaliated against him as a…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang The Obama administration is encouraging skeptical state officials to expand Medicaid by subsidizing the purchase of private insurance for low-income people. A New York Times article features Kaiser Permanente,…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang As individual states continue their internal political debates over state-by-state Medicaid expansion, Florida’s Senate Committee rejected the measure. However, the panel continued to debate a possible compromise that would…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Arkansas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the country Wednesday, outlawing most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The law, called the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act, will…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang As the federal government clambers to meet deadlines and broker deals ahead of the sequestration, Medicare remains, again, one of the more contentious issues. While Medicare spending has slowed,…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang In an unexpected reversal of policy, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced his support for a three year expansion of Medicaid in Florida. Once a critic of the federal health…
