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Display window at Cherished Memories, a keepsake ultrasound boutique at the Los Cerritos Center mall near Los Angeles.

The FDA has repeatedly urged pregnant women to avoid medically unnecessary ultrasounds, saying it is aware of “several enterprises” in the U.S. that perform ultrasounds on pregnant women for entertainment’s sake and then sell the images as keepsake photographs and videos. Read more»

A New York National Guard private administers a drive-thru COVID-19 test in Brooklyn, April 20.

CVS Health announced it will open 10 COVID-19 drive-thru test sites in Arizona Friday, as part of the company’s second phase of efforts to help slow the spread of the virus. Read more»

In 1976, a few years after OSHA was created, Congress attached a rider to the agency’s budget that exempted farms with 10 or fewer employees from enforcement. It shields farm owners from accountability when their workers die in preventable accidents. Read more»

The U.S. Department of Labor reported 6.6 million people applied for unemployment insurance benefits over the last week—roughly 2% of the country’s population.

The U.S. Department of Labor reported 6.6 million people applied for unemployment insurance benefits over the last week—roughly 2% of the country’s population. Read more»

Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, surrounded by survivors and family members of those shot on Jan. 8, called for tighter background checks on firearm sales at a March 6, 2013, news conference at the Safeway store where six were killed.

Gabrielle Giffords will sit with U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty on Tuesday night during President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address. Esty represents a Connecticut district that includes Newtown, site of the 2012 the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 28 people, including 20 children. Read more»

In a gesture of solidarity between Tucson and Newtown, a banner covered with messages from Southern Arizonans was sent to Connecticut after the second anniversary of the Jan. 8 shootings. The banner was hung from a railroad bridge on Church Hill Road, which leads to Sandy Hook Elementary School, in January 2013.

In the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, thousands of Tucsonans wrote personal notes of support and caring on a 75-foot banner that was sent to Connecticut and hung over a Newtown roadway. Read more»

Heather Shuker and daughter Hannah Pallas, 12, at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

An ever-growing lobby of tenacious parents are pushing politicians to legalize medical marijuana for children with epilepsy and other serious conditions. Read more»

Every state regulates medical marijuana differently. The result is wide disparities across the country, including everything from lab testing to costs. Read more»

In 2013, 90 percent of the U.S. corn crop came from genetically modified strains, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

With no funding and facing a July deadline to gather 173,000 signatures, a Tucson man is out to require labels telling consumers whether food products are genetically engineered or made with genetically engineered ingredients. Read more»

After the shooting at Newtown, Conn. last year, Superintendent Matt Dossey launched a program to arm a select group of staff at the Jonesboro Independent School District in central Texas.

Guns or funds? Districts debate what it will take to make kids safer, and schools and state governments have feverishly searched for ways to protect their students. State legislators introduced hundreds of pieces of legislation on school safety. Many called for arming more security guards or, like a law passed in Texas, for arming teachers. Read more»

The state of Connecticut has enacted some of the toughest gun laws in the U.S. as of April 1st, legislative leaders announced after coming to a consensus on the measures — a legislative breakthrough linked to the tragic Newtown shootings in December. Read more»

In a show of solidarity between Tucson and Newtown, a banner covered with messages from Southern Arizonans was sent to Connecticut after the second anniversary of the Jan. 8 shootings. The banner was hung from a railroad bridge on Church Hill Road, which leads to Sandy Hook Elementary School.

An interview with an expert on gun violence, who's backing the push for universal background checks. Read more»

Emily Nottingham is applauded at a congressional hearing where she testified about her son, Gabe Zimmerman, one of six people killed in a 2011 shooting in Tucson that also wounded 13 people, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Tucson.

A packed congressional hearing room gave a standing ovation Wednesday to Emily Nottingham, whose testimony about her son killed in a 2011 Tucson shooting spree brought several people to tears. “We have allowed ourselves to overemphasize gun rights to the detriment of other rights, including the most important, the right to be alive,” she said. Read more»

After last month’s senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut—in which 20 children and 6 adults were shot and killed—we need to immediately address the gaps in our current law that enable mass shootings, as well as the everyday shootings that on average claim the lives of 33 Americans each day. Read more»

An Arlington County officer keeps watch during an October 'Walk to School Day.'

As the White House considers proposals to allocate federal money for armed guards in schools, prominent school-discipline reform groups have issued a report denouncing the idea as a misguided reaction to the Newtown school shooting. Read more»

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