DOH to issue citations to families with mosquitoes breeding sites

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Health will start issuing citations to families that do not maintain cleanliness around their homes. This announcement was made by Eileen Solaita, the head of the Environmental Health Services...

42nd American Samoa DOE Annual Science Fair is underway this week

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 42nd American Samoa Annual Science Fair is underway this week at the Governor H. Rex Lee Auditorium through to March 28th, showcasing the remarkable talents of budding young scientists from elementary schools across...

How the reorganization of the US Department of Health impacts the US Territories

In late March, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan to streamline the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and cut an estimated 10,000 full-time jobs. This...

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to...

U.S Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an enormous marine protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean to industrial fishing while also recommending the reopening of...

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna fishing

U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of Pacific Islands Heritage (PIH) Marine National Monument, a vast protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean, to industrial tuna...

Senate resolution calls for resumption of Atoa o Samoa talks

The Senate last week approved and sent to the House a Senate Concurrent Resolution calling for the resumption of the Atoa o Samoa Executive Meetings between the governments of Samoa and American Samoa. The resolution includes a provision that the...

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Iodine Deficiency in Reproductive Women From 1990 to 2019, and Projections to 2035: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019

1Department of General Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, People’s...

DOI grant helps support ASCC nursing program

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a Department of the Interior grant of $3,264 for the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) to offset costs for the Nursing Program, as requested earlier this month by Governor...

Ohio joins Purdue Pharma settlement with all but 1 state, D.C., 5 territories

ExploreOhio Bureau of Workers’ Comp. drops Oxycontin, cites safer alternativeYost said that the attorneys general of every state but Oklahoma, along with the District of Columbia and American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern...

Maine to receive $26 million as part of $7.4 billion Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - The state of Maine is expected to receive $26 million from Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, as part of the $7.4 billion settlement that will resolve lawsuits over the company’s role in creating and...

Virgin Islands Could Receive $1.5 million From Purdue Pharma Settlement

Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea announces that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family....

JUST ASKING? What’s the plan for when grant funding cuts become a reality in American Samoa?

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerns in the community continue to rise about the territory’s future economic well -being as the Trump Administration cuts to federal funding under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk —...

West Virginia to get up to $53 million from opioid lawsuit settlement with Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family

Attorney General JB McCuskey has announced that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. He made the...

Maine to receive $26M as part of $7.4B Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

The state of Maine is expected to receive $26 million from Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, as part of the $7.4 billion settlement that will resolve lawsuits over the company's role in creating and worsening the nationwide opioid...

CHCC launches inaugural population health summit

THE Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. on Monday launched the inaugural 2025 Pacific Population Health Summit at the Crowne Plaza’s Hibiscus and Azucena halls, with healthcare leaders and practitioners from across the Pacific sharing knowledge and...

Attorney General announces every state joined $7.4B settlement with Purdue Pharma

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family,...

Nebraska to receive up to $19.7 million in settlement with Purdue Pharma

Attorney General Mike Hilgers, Courtesy NEBRASKA — Attorney General Hilgers today announced that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and...

RSV precautions in American Samoa

Photo: 123RF An American Samoa epidemiologist has extended the closure of daycare centres in the territory due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In an update on Monday local time, 234 RSV cases were confirmed, with 55 new ones in the latest...

Attorneys general reach $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that all 55 attorneys general from eligible states and U.S. territories have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The agreement aims to...

7.4 billion Purdue Pharma settlement joined by all U.S. state attorneys general

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that a $7.4 billion settlement has been reached with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. This agreement involves all 55 attorneys general from eligible states and U.S. territories. The...