In July, California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer promoted a public health emergency funding bill to help health officials with responding to epidemics and other public health emergencies. Today, Sen...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) highlighted new legislation she plans to introduce – the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act – within the Department of Health and Human...

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With the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games less than three months away, eleven US Senators sent a letter today to U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Chairman Lawrence Probst asking “what steps the USOC...

The measles outbreak in California has reached 99, as of Wednesday, and the outbreak has prompted two state Senators to draft legislation to close the vaccine exemption loophole. Pediatrician and Sacramento...

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U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-CA) today sent a letter to California Hospitals Association President and CEO C. Duane Dauner and California Association of Public Hospitals and...

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today sent a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins asking for more information about NIH’s efforts to address the outbreak of enterovirus...