Politics
Live Hearings on The National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium, Thursday May 31, Friday June 1
The NIH Pain Consortium was established to enhance pain research and promote collaboration among researchers across the many NIH Institutes and Centers that have programs and activities addressing pain. The consortium supports initiatives, development of research resources and tools. This symposium features NIH supported researchers whose work has made an important contribution to pain research.
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California State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Statement on Trump Rule to Restrict Funds for Women's Health Services
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In response to reports that the Trump administration is preparing the release of a rule restricting Title X funding for organizations providing vital women's health services, such as Planned Parenthood, California Insurance Commissi… more »
The Looming Threat to Sex Education: A Resurgence of Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs?
"Abstinence-only programs violate adolescents’ rights, ignore their needs and do not work. Adolescents have a basic human right to complete and accurate information about their sexual and reproductive health. The abstinence-only-until-marriage approach withholds comprehensive information on effective ways to reduce the risks of unintended pregnancy, HIV and other STIs, which violates adolescents’ right to information and also requires educators to disregard basic ethical standards by providing incomplete and potentially harmful information to students." The Guttmacher Institute more »
California Insurance Commissioner Urges Federal Government to Withdraw Proposed Health Care Rule: A Race to the Bottom Rather Than Providing A Meaningful Alternative
"I strongly oppose the proposed rule, Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance (proposed Rule), because it further erodes the protections provided under the ACA, poses significant risk to health insurance markets in California and the nation, and offers consumers skimpy health insurance policies that cannot be relied upon to cover necessary health services when they need them most."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Med… more »