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CDC confirmed the problems with the coronavirus test, and with using its flu-surveillance network to screen for the virus. But the agency declined to answer further questions on the matter. The delay in establishing additional screening capacity could impede the…

Some medical experts have called for taking medical assessments out of the hands of the campaigns, moving instead to a system in which an independent panel subjects candidates to a battery of mental and physical tests. But there’s been little…

The rift surfaced last week, when the 60,000-member Culinary Workers Union declined to endorse any Democrat in this week’s Nevada caucuses after slamming Bernie Sanders’ health plan as a threat to the hard-won private health plans that they negotiated at…

“We had about an hour conversation last night on what we should do,” said Roe. “Why not get them out, get them back to this country and put them in a place where we know they’re not going to be…

The ERA was proposed in 1923, rewritten in 1943, and adopted by Congress in 1972. Members of both parties supported the amendment — in fact, Republicans made it part of their platform well before Democrats, who were nervous it could…

“It’s very harmful, it’s very dangerous to stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people,” he said Sunday. “For one thing, this will create panic. Another thing is that it will fan up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all these…

A third of the 90 member companies the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions surveyed in December said a public option would be helpful, while one quarter criticized the idea. Some 72 percent favored government regulation of hospital prices. The…

The administration on Sunday ordered recent U.S. travelers to China’s Hubei province — the epicenter of the outbreak — to be held in a mandatory quarantine for two weeks. The last time the government took such a step was in…

A spokesperson for former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said his campaign was “open to exploring options for this population.” The campaign of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) didn’t respond to requests for comment. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang also…

How soon could there be a cure, diagnostic tests, or a vaccine? The CDC has already created a diagnostic test, although public health officials are working on faster tests that can be widely disseminated to hospitals so patients can be…