SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 13 -- The Association of University Centers on Disabilities issued the following news: * * * ArizonaLEND Trainees Highlight the Inequities within DCS An interdisciplinary team of ArizonaLEND trainees was deeply upset after hearing a story shared during the ArizonaLEND seminar on Best Practices in Working with Parents with Disabilities. The story involved a mother with an intellectual disability who attended her termination of parental rights hearing without unders  more

CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, May 13 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * ASAM: Sweeping Medicaid Reforms Could Weaken America's Addiction Treatment Efforts, Pose a National Security Threat To save lives and undermine the influence of drug cartels, ASAM urges Congress to exempt addiction-related treatment services from cost-sharing mandates and reject burdensome work requirements Rockville, MD (May 13, 2025) - In response to  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 14 -- The AFL-CIO Amalgamated Transit Union issued the following news release: * * * ATU Slams WMATA for Full Automation Plans for Metro Trains Union Calls Plan to Remove Human Operators Dangerous, Expensive, and Reckless Calling the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority's (WMATA) plans to fully automate trains without a human operator in the cab dangerous, expensive, and irresponsible, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) eviscerated the agency fo  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Calls for Probe of Violent Crackdown on Peaceful Anti-Genocide Protesters by Johns Hopkins U, Baltimore Police The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for an independent investigation of the reported violent crackdown by Johns Hopkins University Po  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The National Health Law Program issued the following news: * * * Maryland Signs Groundbreaking Abortion Access Bill into Law, Advancing the Promise of the Affordable Care Act WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) celebrates the signing of Maryland's HB 930 into law, a landmark step in advancing reproductive health in Maryland. This first-of-its-kind legislation establishes the Public Health Abortion Grant Program and Fund, which will direct unused,   more

NORFOLK, Virginia, May 13 [Category: Animals] -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: * * * PETA Science Group, Colgate, and IIVS Team Up to Provide Training on Non-Animal Toxicity Testing Gaithersburg, Md. - This week, six scientists from India will attend a globally recognized, non-animal toxicology training course in the United States as a result of a partnership between PETA Science Consortium International e.V., Colgate-Palmolive, and the Institu  more