A burgeoning and little-regulated private industry that specially mixes drugs at so-called compounding pharmacies poses a public-health hazard that the Trump administration is about to make a whole lot worse.
Health & Social Policy
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Cures Act Is Bad Medicine for NIH, FDA
A bipartisan bill that promises more money for research and development is actually full of giveaways for the pharmaceutical industry and other trade groups.
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For Women’s Reproductive Freedom, a Chill Wind Blows
Roe v. Wade will stand for now, but the essential right it protects is in Trump’s line of fire.
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Under Siege, Abortion-Rights Advocates Must Link Health Care to Economic Prosperity
A reproductive rights movement that had lost touch with women’s economic concerns is partly to blame for an election outcome that now puts basic constitutional rights in jeopardy.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Will Trump Deliver for Veterans?
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump repeated one key promise: to “Make America Great Again” by increasing the country’s military might and supporting its 24 million military veterans. After all, he promised to raise money for veterans and said he donated a million dollars out of his own pocket to veterans’ charities. But Trump […]
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Trump’s Awful Behavior Drives Away Women, But So Does His Anti-Woman Platform
The Republican Party will never solve its woman problem until its leaders abandon candidates and policies that seek to rob women of their basic right to make their own child-bearing decisions.
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How the Anti-choice Movement Paved the Way for Trump
Making a conservative case against Trump, Ross Douthat descends into denial about anti-choice violence.
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Turning Out the Pro-Choice Vote
A walk with Planned Parenthood in the Philadelphia suburbs
Posted inEducation in America
Putting Family Policy on the Governing Agenda
It’s time we saw support for child care and paid leave as central to both economic growth and family well-being.
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Is 2016 Another “Year of the Woman?”
Twenty-five years after Anita Hill’s allegations against Clarence Thomas transfixed the nation, another sexual assault controversy is driving cash and volunteers to women’s political groups.
