Tag: Health

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday July 8, 2018.

McConnell bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 to get vote in Senate panel

Kimberly Leonard · June 24, 2019 3:47 pm

The Royal High Courts of Justice.

UK judge rules that woman must abort her baby

Ellie Bufkin · June 24, 2019 2:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s healthcare executive order will only mean more red tape, not cheaper care

Ernest Istook · June 24, 2019 4:05 am

Remnants of an aircraft carrying nine people lies on the ground near a fence that surrounds Dillingham Airfield in Mokuleia, just off Farrington Highway, Friday, June 21, 2019. Nine people on board the twin engine aircraft died Friday night in a crash on Oahu's North Shore, officials said.

Skydiving plane crash kills 9 in Hawaii

Cassidy Morrison · June 22, 2019 1:37 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Poor People's Moral Action Congress presidential forum in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2019.

Kamala Harris delivers abortion-access warning: ‘Poor women in America will die’

Naomi Lim · June 21, 2019 11:54 pm

A young caucasian person, seen from behind, holding a transgender pride flag over his head against the blue sky.

Vermont Medicaid will now cover gender reassignment surgeries for people under 21

Ellie Bufkin · June 21, 2019 9:36 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Student debt is keeping doctors from rural areas

Cassidy Morrison · June 21, 2019 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The silent victims of 9/11

Madeline Fry Schultz · June 21, 2019 3:00 am

In this Aug. 17, 2018 photo, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Conn. The Sackler familyâs ties to OxyContin and the painkillerâs role in the deadly opioid crisis are bringing the Sacklers a new kind of attention and complicating their philanthropic legacy.

World Health Organization removes guidelines downplaying opioid addiction risk after criticism from US legislators

Grayce McCormick · June 20, 2019 9:21 pm

9/11 first responder in hospice care issues final plea to Congress

Mike Brest · June 20, 2019 8:45 pm

Suicide rates.

Suicide rate peaks to highest since World War II

Zach Halaschak · June 20, 2019 1:30 pm

WATCH: Angela Merkel filmed shaking during German national anthem

Zach Halaschak · June 20, 2019 11:22 am