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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Association for Veterans Rights (NAVR) is closing out its most impactful year to date, marked by major progress in strengthening consumer protections for Veterans and establishing clear, enforceable standards for organizations assisting them with disability benefits. In 2025, NAVR led a coordinated national effort that resulted in the passage of the SAVE Act and parallel legislation in eight states: Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina,...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the leading voice for robust hemp regulation to protect consumers and the industry, recapped for its members recent legislation that negatively impacts the industry and touted hope for the future. Despite the legislation, the group says they are positioned to spend the next year advocating for the industry – 365 days to regulate, not ban. Below is a summary of the update shared with Roundtable members: The bill to reopen the government incl...

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the early 2000s, the Labour government in England began contracting out hospital surgeries to for-profit facilities with the stated policy objective of reducing wait-times. However, two decades of privatization led to increasing inequalities, longer wait-times, and reduction in capacity in the public system, according to research by Allyson Pollock, professor emerita at Newcastle University. These reports offer lessons for Ontario, which is comparatively in the initi...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SOFR Academy, Inc., a leading financial engineering firm, today announced the appointment of R. Martin “Marty” Chávez as Senior Advisor....

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the pharmaceutical industry gathers for the Global Pharma & Biotech Summit in London this week, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is launching a mobile billboard that will circle the venue (Convene 22 Bishopsgate) on Nov. 11-12 to spotlight Gilead Sciences’ greed and refusal to make its breakthrough HIV prevention drug lenacapavir truly affordable and accessible. The roving billboard carries an urgent demand to Gilead and its CEO Daniel O’Day to “Make Lenacap...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CMMI's sweeping policy change to implement most favored nation drug price controls is the wrong approach....

EDMONTON, AB--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Canadian Union of Public Employees Alberta Division (CUPE Alberta) has launched a website and advertising campaign asking the province’s conservative government to “axe the tax” on COVID vaccines. CUPE has launched a website at www.axethevaxtax.ca, which allows Albertans to send a letter to Premier Danielle Smith, NDP leader Naheed Nenshi, and their local MLA protesting the $100 fee charged to Albertans getting a COVID vaccination. CUPE is also advertising on...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Food for Health: Advocates Call on Gov. Newsom to Backfill SNAP Cuts...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Food for Health: Advocates Call on Gov. Newsom to Backfill SNAP Cuts...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life Sciences, TechBio, and Investment Leaders at Demy-Colton’s BioFuture™ 2025 Suggest Health and Biotech Sectors Show Signs of New Life...