Tag: Health

Close up of woman slicing fresh vegetables.

Beltway Confidential

How to stay sane during quarantine

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 20, 2020 6:30 pm

Three men were arrested and charged on Friday in connection with a bomb plot aimed at a Somali refugee community in western Kansas. Three men were arrested and charged on Friday in connection with a bomb plot aimed at a Somali refugee community in western Kansas. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Kansas federal judge blocks governor’s limit on religious gatherings

Anthony Leonardi · April 20, 2020 2:54 pm

The news signals he intends to comply with Robert Mueller's Russia probe. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates asks to serve rest of prison sentence at home over coronavirus fears

Carlin Becker · April 20, 2020 12:27 am

Broadway star forced to have leg amputated after coronavirus complications

Carlin Becker · April 19, 2020 5:52 pm

We deserve answers: A family doctor’s perspective

Eugene Shmorhun · April 18, 2020 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

White House guidelines still anticipate months to get back to normal

Philip Klein · April 17, 2020 2:31 pm

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Dr. Terry Rabinowitz, back to camera, talks with nurse Leslie Orelup at Helen Porter Nursing Home on in Burlington, Vt. New health insurance regulations in Vermont are giving a boost to telemedicine, the system that enables health care providers to offer consult with patients without being in the same room. Telemedicine isnât new, but the new regulations make it easier for physicians to be reimbursed for services performed by two-way video hookups. Fletcher Allen Telemedicine director Dr. Terry Rabinowitz says popular specialties are psychiatry and dermatology. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

How telehealth will help us fight COVID-19

Gary Shapiro · April 16, 2020 4:00 am

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Public health officials survey COVID-19 cases, track recovery rates

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2020 9:00 pm

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general de la OrganizaciÃ³n Mundial de la Salud, habla durante una conferencia en Ginebra, Suiza, el lunes 9 de marzo de 2020.

Flashback: WHO’s Tedros was accused of covering up cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia

Carly Ortiz-Lytle · April 15, 2020 7:10 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, speaks during South by Southwest on Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

AOC on minorities in America: 'It’s inequity that’s the preexisting condition'

Dominick Mastrangelo · April 15, 2020 5:21 pm

A cyclist wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus moves past the Rocky statue outfitted with mock surgical face mask at the Philadelphia Art Museum in Philadelphia, Tuesday.

Optimism replaced by stress, worry, ‘mental harm’

Paul Bedard · April 15, 2020 12:38 pm

This pandemic is testing states’ fiscal health

Carol Park · April 15, 2020 4:00 am