Healthcare

Measles vaccine.

US loses measles elimination status amid surge in cases: Report

Claire Carter · November 13, 2026 10:50 pm

Apartment complex in DC

Black mold’s link to fatal DC shooting: What to know

President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

How Democratic healthcare ad blitz helped sink GOP Senate candidates

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at an election night event, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, in Detroit.

Abdul el Sayed teases ‘TrumpCare’ in support of universal healthcare

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Senators launch investigation into RFK Jr. over alleged lies in confirmation testimony

Daily on Healthcare: Key Obamacare lawsuit to be argued just ahead of midterm elections

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein August 15, 2018 3:57 pm

The Supreme Court ended its 2013-14 term with the most unanimous rulings and fewest split decisions in decades, suggesting at first glance an easing of the sharp and often bitter ideological divisions between the justices in recent years.

DC sued over failure to help children with mental health troubles

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 11:03 pm

Syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl are pictured in an inpatient pharmacy.

Drug companies opposed to the death penalty have changed executions

Erin Dunne August 14, 2018 10:11 pm

Key Obamacare lawsuit to be argued just ahead of midterm elections

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 10:02 pm

The key to Obamacare's success or failure -- provided the administration can actually learn to operate the system -- is whether it helps more people than it hurts, or hurts more people than it helps. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

In rare move, Nevada to run own Obamacare marketplace

Robert King August 14, 2018 9:56 pm

Veterinary nurse and radiation technician Corrado Picarulli, left, and veterinary assistant Yoshiaki Kobayashi prepare Dakota, a giant 7-year old Bernese mountain dog, for radiation treatment of a snout tumor, at the Cancer Institute at Manhattanâs Animal Medical Center in New York.

Trump signs bill into law funding medicines for animals

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 8:51 pm

President Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House, July 19, 2018, in Washington.

Trump signs law giving suicide lifeline a makeover

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 8:35 pm

Arkansas residents sue to overturn Medicaid work rules

Robert King August 14, 2018 8:08 pm

Kratom leaves are arranged for a photograph in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Kratom, a coffee-like evergreen that Southeast Asian farmers have long chewed to relieve pain, is one of the hottest local commodities thanks to the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

Advocates skewer FDA over ‘junk science’ blaming kratom for deaths

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 6:55 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 20, 2018, in Washington.

Ron Wyden pursues answers on oversight of nursing homes

Robert King August 14, 2018 6:37 pm

FILE- In this June 1, 2018 file photo, small vials of fentanyl are shown in the inpatient pharmacy at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Nebraska state officials are preparing for their first execution in two decades on Aug. 14 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb., and their first-ever lethal injection with an untried combination of drugs. The new execution protocol calls for an initial IV dose of diazepam, commonly known as Valium, to render the inmate unconscious; the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl; cisatracurium besylate to induce paralysis and stop the inmate from breathing; and potassium chloride to stop the heart.

Nebraska the first to use fentanyl to carry out death penalty

Kimberly Leonard August 14, 2018 5:10 pm

Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Trump, the billionaire real-estate mogul, got a major boost in his quest to secure the Republican nomination with a majority of delegates but could not eliminate the possibility of a contested convention.

Carl Icahn drops opposition to Express Scripts-Cigna merger

Robert King August 14, 2018 4:04 pm