ADEA Washington Update

Congress passed five of 12 appropriations bills before the midterm elections, but time is running out. A deal on a year-end spending package to wrap up the seven unfinished bills would fund parts of the government for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Only a few days remain before a stopgap funding measure (P.L. 115-245) will run dry on... Click Here To Read More

It may be winter, but three summer opportunities are available to dental and medical students at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Graduate Summer Opportunities to Advance Research... Click Here To Read More

Most dental schools have a Dental Research Administration (DRA) to promote and assist students, residents and faculty on how to properly develop and conduct research studies at the schools. The DRA helps researchers work through the requirements of the school’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). Last year, the Department of Health and... Click Here To Read More

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be determined by each state. Since then, several governors have fought against expansion in their states. Maine Gov. Paul LePage was one of several Republican governors who refused to accept the ACA’s federal funding to implement the... Click Here To Read More

Marie DesMeules is the Director of the Social Determinants of Health Division, part of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch at the Public Health Agency of Canada. DesMeules helped produce the Key Health Inequalities in Canada ... Click Here To Read More

Dr. Jerome Adams is the 20th Surgeon General of the United States. His reports, like those of his predecessors, help to focus the country around key public health issues. Dr. Adams ... Click Here To Read More