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Ban on sale of flavored tobacco products needed
A ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products is needed to protect our youth and neighbors who experience health inequities from a lifetime of nicotine addiction, and consequent illness and risk of death.
When well-intentioned policies amplify over-policing
As the Food and Drug Administration gears up to potentially ban menthol cigarettes, it's crucial that we pause and consider the broader ramifications of such a decision. Although well-intentioned, this policy change could have consequences far beyond public health that can seriously harm minority communities.
Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access
Verónica Cruz Sánchez watched something remarkable happen from the office of her women’s rights organization in Guanajuato, the capital city of one of this country’s most conservative Catholic states. Founder of Las Libres – “the free” in English – she had built an underground abortion-pill network in a country where having the procedure could have meant going to jail.
Vaping epidemic is impacting kids, environment
Anyone who has tried to throw away a battery in recent years understands that some things are dangerous, and you can’t simply put them in the trash and hope they go away. The same thing is true of flavored disposable vapes.
Senate Republicans take credit for opposing CDC push to vaccinate youths against Covid
Senate Republicans are taking credit for standing up to a new push by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to have kids vaccinated against Covid before attending school.
Policy solutions needed to defeat cancer
It is often said that if you have not been affected by cancer, you will be. We all have lost too many loved ones and now is the time that we can fight back. I hope our elected leaders will work together to get these multi-cancer early detection programs covered under Medicare so that we can start playing offense in our fight against Cancer.
Choice of getting Covid shots related to politics
Nearly a month after vaccines have become available here a quarter of Arizonans remain unwilling to get inoculated against Covid.
Doctors sue feds to loosen grip on drug used to prevent COVID-19
A Tucson-based national organization of doctors has sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services for putting roadblocks in the path of physicians who want to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to... […]
Governor’s order allows telemedicine for veterinarians
Fido can now get flea treatment by phone. Or at least the prescription for it.
Governor not in favor of banning flavored vaping liquids
Gov. Doug Ducey said he believes that banning flavored nicotine-laced vaping liquids may not be a good idea.
Goldwater loses bid to unveil information on experimental drugs
A federal judge rejected efforts by the Goldwater Institute to force the Food and Drug Administration to detail publicly how dying people can get access to unapproved medicines.
Senate committee approves vaping restrictions
Hoping to curb teen use, state lawmakers are moving to put new restrictions on where and how vaping devices can be sold.
