Tag: Health

No, moderate drinking is not as bad for you as smoking

Jackson Shedelbower · April 16, 2019 2:43 pm

One woman’s path to ‘profound gratitude’ for life after her husband suffered a major brain injury

Cassidy Morrison · April 16, 2019 4:00 am

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

AOC claims social media is a ‘public health risk,’ causes ‘addiction’

John Gage · April 15, 2019 6:47 pm

New competition for Title X funds means women no longer have to go to abortion clinics for healthcare

Patrina Mosley · April 15, 2019 4:00 am

Ground beef sickens people in 6 states: CDC

Diana Stancy Correll · April 13, 2019 12:10 am

In this Thursday, April 11, 2019 photo, pedestrians walk past the Lucky Lee's restaurant in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York. The owner has drawn backlash for touting offerings of âcleanâ American-Chinese cuisine, renewing debate about cultural appropriation in the restaurant world.

Manhattan restaurateur apologizes for describing her Chinese food as ‘clean’

Diana Stancy Correll · April 12, 2019 8:42 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.

Rural areas behind in the fight against opioids

Cassidy Morrison · April 12, 2019 4:00 am

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Replacing ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek will prove a difficult task

Jay Caruso · April 12, 2019 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Celebrate normal women for once

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 12, 2019 12:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2015 file photo, Sprout Pharmaceuticals CEO Cindy Whitehead holds a bottle for the female sex-drive drug Addyi at her Raleigh, N.C. Most women with low sexual desire wonât rush out to get the first prescription drug to boost female libido when it launches on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. But they may have more options down the road.

Drinking allowed: FDA rolls back alcohol restriction on female libido pill

Zach Halaschak · April 11, 2019 11:19 pm

In this March 16, 2017 photo, Margaret Atkinson speaks during an interview as she shops for soda at the IGA supermarket in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia less than three months into Philadelphia's new tax on sweetened drinks.

Beltway Confidential

Soda taxes aren’t just annoying, they don’t curb obesity

Guy Bentley · April 11, 2019 7:22 pm

Hand sanitizer is shown at Texas Star Pharmacy in Plano, Texas.

FDA launches review of hand sanitizer ingredients

Cassidy Morrison · April 11, 2019 5:01 pm