
Alice Ollstein
Health Care Reporter at POLITICO
Health Care Reporter on Capitol Hill for @POLITICOPro/@POLITICO. Making puns about the news. Write to me: [email protected]
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7 hours ago |
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Ben Leonard |Hailey Fuchs |Nicholas Wu |Daniel Desrochers |Mia McCarthy | +7 more
Democrats and Republicans clashed throughout the night over the bill's Medicaid provisions.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo
With help from Robert King, Sophie Gardner and Erin Schumaker The DOJ is defending an FDA rule in favor of access to the abortion drug mifepristone, a move that might anger some anti-abortion groups. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP DOJ TELLS COURT TO TOSS ABORTION PILL CASE — The Trump administration revealed in a court filing Monday afternoon that it will continue the Biden administration’s defense of the FDA’s rules for mifepristone, a drug used in roughly two-thirds of abortions.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Alice Ollstein
An HHS spokesperson said the reprieve could become permanent. The International Association of Fire Fighters took credit for the reversal in a statement. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is calling back to work some laid off federal employees who focused on the health and safety of coal miners, firefighters, and survivors of 9/11, a Republican senator and a national union of firefighters said Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago |
foodsafety.einnews.com | Sophie Gardner |Alice Ollstein
NIOSH was one of several agencies gutted this month when tens of thousands of employees were laid off as part of a sweeping reorganization of the federal health department. Health Secretary Robert F.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Sophie Gardner
NIOSH’s congressionally mandated Health Hazard Evaluation program is one of many health and safety services on which firefighters depend that’s been shrunk or eliminated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “reduction in force” — a purge of more than 10,000 employees. Firefighters are regularly exposed to toxins and chemicals that affect their physical and mental health, problems compounded by stress and irregular sleep.
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