Monthly Archives: May, 2022
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VA launches $20 million innovation challenge to reduce Veteran suicide
As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ 10-year strategy to reduce Veteran suicide, VA invites innovators across the country to participate in Mission Daybreak — a $20 million challenge designed to help VA develop new suicide prevention strategies for Veterans.
Courts stymie abortion bans in Iowa, other GOP-led states
With a staunch anti-abortion Republican governor and large GOP legislative majorities, Iowa would seem poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
UCLA to pay record of nearly $700M in doctor abuse lawsuits
The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a UCLA gynecologist, bringing a record amount in total payouts by a public university in a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by campus doctors.
Biden says ‘we have to act’ after Texas school shooting
President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
Coronavirus Files: U.S. cases rise and CDC says mask up
Black Americans would be particularly vulnerable to a new, aggressive coronavirus variant, the NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci told The Root. “The rate of hospitalization and the death rate … is clearly higher, greater in brown and Black populations in the United States compared to the general population and compared to whites,” Fauci told reporter Keith Reid.
