Tina Smith: Last News

An 11 year old girl was diagnosed with a brain tumour which her mother believes was "dislodged" by a rollercoaster at Thorpe Park, triggering symptoms. Connie Campbell, now aged 13, experienced sickness and headaches following a family trip to the Surrey amusement park.

Truvada, or PrEP, is a medication that can reduce HIV infection by more than 90 percent. Health officials consider it an important HIV prevention tool. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have collaborated to reintroduce the PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2023 to help reduce HIV. Photo: Gilead Sciences.

, after Senators (D-NY), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) along with US Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn., Richie Neal (D-Mass), Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Sean Casten (D-Ill.), and Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), announced a raft of new proposals to establish a national paid family and medical leave program and modernize the current Family and Medical Leave Act. With one in four American women compelled to within two weeks of giving birth—despite often not being fully healed and having to care for a newborn with round-the-clock needs—this legislation couldn’t be more urgent. The US is one of only six countries in the world without a national paid leave policy; 189 others, including those less developed, offer families time off to care for a newborn or family members in need. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, during which they announced the proposals, Senator Gillibrand said: “We have paid the price of not having a national paid leave program.

Democratic Minnesota Sen.Tina Smith is running in her second race in two years as she faces a tight contest with Republican rival Jason Lewis. The senator previously served as chief of staff for Minneapolis Mayor R.T.