Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Dear PSA Director, According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 8.4 million people nationwide signed up for health care coverage via healthcare.gov – the federal marketplace – during...
AUDIO: Michael J. Miller, Senior Partner, The Miller Firm LLC
(San Francisco, CA, Friday, March 15, 2019) – Alberta and Alva Pilliod are taking Monsanto Company to trial over their claims that the weed killer Roundup caused them both to develop the same type of cancer....
AUDIO: Michael Weiner, MD, Internationally Recognized Alzheimer’s Expert, University of California, San Francisco
(San Francisco, CA, Wednesday, March 6, 2019) – Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death overall in the United States and affects 5.7 million Americans. According to experts, this number may nearly triple...
AUDIO: Stefanie Sonico, National Grassroots Advocacy Chair, JDRF
(Washington D.C., Monday, March 4, 2019) – JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. The nonprofit organization focuses on accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D. Since 1970,...
AUDIO: Patrick Young, MD, FACG, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
(Bethesda, MD, Friday, March 1, 2019) – March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer is the number two cancer killer in the United States, and is one of the most preventable types of cancer,...
AUDIO: Genie Francis, Actress and Brand Ambassador, Nutrisystem
(Fort Washington, PA, Tuesday, February 26, 2019) – Genie Francis’ popularity with audiences began decades ago when she joined General Hospital at the young age of 14, creating one of the most memorable characters in...
AUDIO: Sue Peschin, President and CEO, Alliance for Aging Research
(Washington D.C., Friday, February 22, 2019) – National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day—recognized every February 22, is a campaign to increase recognition of the specific risks and symptoms of heart valve disease, improve detection and treatment,...
AUDIO: Marlysa D. Gamblin, Domestic Advisor for Policy and Programs, Bread for the World Institute
(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – February is Black History Month, and while hunger and poverty declined among African Americans in 2017, food insecurity has still not dropped enough this past year to match the...
AUDIO: Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President, AARP Foundation
(Washington D.C., Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – Eighty-three percent (42 million) of the estimated 50 million low- to moderate-income people over the age of 50 in America are struggling with some or all of the components...
AUDIO: Doctor Michael Hahn, National Dental Director, Cigna
(Bloomfield, CT, Wednesday, February 6, 2019) – While tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases among children in the U.S., it is also largely preventable, according to the oral health section of...