The Federal government should ensure that no insurance plan is allowed to deny coverage of annual mammograms to women ages 40 and above, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said today as he introduced the The Mammogram Availability Act. “This bill would ensure that the decision whether or not to have a mammogram would be made by a woman in consultation with her doctor on the basis of… Read more »

From Claritin to Allegra, Americans are inundated everyday by television commercials advertising prescription drugs.  What most Americans may not know is that these ads are subsidized with their taxpayer dollars.  All that would end if a new bill, “The Say No To Drug Ads Act,” introduced today by Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Joseph Crowley (D-NY), passes.… Read more »

Calling the situation regarding rapists at large "urgent," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today announced introduction of the Rape Kit DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act, which would provide $250 million in funding to eliminate the backlog of rape kits that have not been analyzed by police departments nationwide. The announcement was made at a Capitol Hill press conference, where… Read more »

With so many other events occupying the news these days, it’s important to speak out and raise awareness that we’ve been fighting a war against AIDS for two decades now and our work is still unfinished. I’m pleased to be here today with Housing Works, which does so much important work to help people living with HIV and AIDS find housing.  As many of you know, I… Read more »

Twenty years ago the medical world was riding a wave of confidence.  Our scientists had conquered polio, tuberculosis, small pox, you name it.  We were ready for any new challenge.  But no one was prepared on June 5th, 1981 for the crisis that was to come.   Some thought this new discovery to be a rare pneumonia, others a new form of cancer.  It attracted… Read more »