Health
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Democratic Doctors Caucus released the following statement after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.
Today, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), the first pediatrician elected to Congress, released the following statement after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Pediatricians in Washington are urging parents to vaccinate their children against hepatitis B.
This comes even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Panel voted to change its recommendation that all babies get the vaccine after they’re born.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and Congressman Tony Wied (WI-08) introduced the BLOOD Centers Act, a bipartisan bill to cut onerous administrative requirements placed on blood centers to help ensure that hospitals have a sufficient blood supply to meet patient needs. Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) was also an original cosponsor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Kim Schrier (WA-08), Chair of the Democratic Doctors Caucus, along with her colleagues of the Democratic Doctors Caucus Ami Bera (CA-06), Herbert Conaway (NJ-03), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), Kelly Morrison (MN-03), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), led 65 other members to demand that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A bill that would allow schools to serve whole and 2% milk passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate Thursday.
The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, which will now be considered by the House of Representatives, revises requirements surrounding milk served by schools participating in USDA’s National School Lunch Program.
WASHINGTON — The New Democrat Coalition, a group of 116 center-left members of the House, has written a letter to the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urging him to reinstate the fired members of an advisory panel on vaccines.
In addition, the coalition is seeking immediate changes to the procedures followed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to ensure it provides only evidence-based recommendations on public health.
ISSAQUAH - Congresswoman Kim Schrier (WA-08) and members of the New Democrat Coalition on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping Rural Revitalization Agenda designed to strengthen rural economies, lower costs for families, expand health care access, and address long-standing infrastructure gaps across rural America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington State Representatives Dan Newhouse, Michael Baumgartner and Kim Schrier introduced the Maddie's Infant Recovery and Children's Legislative Emergency (MIRACLE) Act on Thursday to study Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).
NAS is described as "a condition that affects newborns who receive opioids or addictive substances through the placenta during pregnancy."