Tag: Health

A pregnant woman hooked to an IV in the hospital.

Baby girl doing well after receiving in utero surgery for spina bifida at 23 weeks

Anthony Leonardi · June 19, 2019 7:07 pm

Hand holding bottle of CBD oil against marijuana plant.

CBD is the new snake oil

Robert L. DuPont · June 17, 2019 4:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Teen Vogue promotes prostitution to an audience of minors, and that’s not even its biggest problem

Madeline Fry Schultz · June 17, 2019 4:22 pm

Vice President Joe Biden speaks with Dr. Matthias Gromeier, left, Dr. A. Eugne Washington, middle, and Dr. John Sampson, right, in a laboratory at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. Vice President Joe Biden visited Duke University Medical Center to speak about his Cancer Moonshot initiave.

The facts about Biden’s sweeping, incautious promise to end cancer

Kimberly Leonard · June 17, 2019 11:44 am

This May 29, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows some of 1,036 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, the largest that the Border Patrol says it has ever encountered.

Border Patrol agents fall prey to illnesses plaguing migrant holding centers

Anna Giaritelli · June 16, 2019 7:55 pm

Police investigating bootleg liquor in relation to Dominican Republic mystery deaths

Alana Goodman · June 15, 2019 7:05 pm

A member of the police honor guard has his badge covered in mourning as he arrives for the funeral mass for New York City police officer Brian Moore, Friday, May 8, 2015, at the St. James Roman Catholic church in Seaford, N.Y. As many as 30,000 police officers from across the United States are expected to pay their respects at the Long Island funeral for the young police officer slain on patrol.

Three NYPD officers commit suicide in 10 days

Zach Halaschak · June 15, 2019 2:16 pm

Writer and political activist Gloria Steinem speak to the crowd during the Women's March rally in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Where Gloria Steinem and conservatives can agree: Commercial surrogacy is harmful to women

Madeline Fry Schultz · June 14, 2019 5:58 pm

FILE- In this Feb. 19, 2019 file photo, children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. The company that runs the center is Comprehensive Health Services, which is part of Virginia-based Caliburn International Corporation.

5,200 immigrants in quarantine after exposure to mumps or chicken pox

Caitlin Yilek · June 14, 2019 4:40 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Expect the unexpected when you’re expecting

Bethany Mandel · June 14, 2019 3:00 am

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.

Politicians admit mental health struggles

Kimberly Leonard · June 14, 2019 3:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo a cannabis worker displays fresh cannabis flower buds that have been trimmed for market in Gardena, Calif. When California voters broadly legalized marijuana, they were promised that a vast computer platform would closely monitor products moving through the new market. Sixteen months after the start of broad legal sales, just a few hundred operators are entering data into the track-and-trace system.

California court: Inmates can possess weed in prison but can’t use it

Zach Halaschak · June 13, 2019 10:04 pm