Tag: Health

Oxycodone pills are displayed, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in New York.

Court orders release of opioid marketing records

Kimberly Leonard · December 14, 2018 2:15 pm

‘Deaths of Despair’

Philip Luke Jeffery · December 14, 2018 7:59 am

Congress won’t reform disability, so let the states have a go at it

Collin Roth · December 14, 2018 5:00 am

Bill to reduce maternal deaths heads to Trump

Kimberly Leonard · December 14, 2018 2:48 am

A pedestrian next to signage outside a Planned Parenthood office.

Planned Parenthood argues in court that family planning faces harm under Trump

Kimberly Leonard · December 12, 2018 6:13 pm

In this Thursday, May 8, 2014 photo, an overweight man wears a shirt patterned after the American flag during a visit to the World Trade Center, in New York.

Nearly 1/3 of American adults are obese: Study

Katelyn Caralle · December 12, 2018 5:05 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pauses while speaking during a campaign rally for Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., in Milwaukee on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders’ drug price controls would stifle medical innovation

Sally Pipes · December 11, 2018 7:33 pm

Judicial Hellholes 2018: Where lawyers’ TV ads cause patients to stop taking their drugs

Sherman Joyce · December 11, 2018 5:02 am

"The people who are actually doing the research have no desire to talk to anyone right now," said Jacob Appel, a doctor and bioethicist based at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.Â (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump administration aims to develop replacements for fetal tissue in research

Kimberly Leonard · December 10, 2018 8:38 pm

Civilian technology has gone "small" -- nanotechnology, genetic engineering, custom-engineered materials, "mass customization" through 3-D printing. If the Rouge plant looming over Dearborn was the iconic symbol of the industrial age, the iconic symbol of our information age is the smartphone in your pocket.ÃÂ (Compassionate Eye Foundation/Justin Pumfrey/Getty)

Beltway Confidential

How to keep machines from making us dumber

Quin Hillyer · December 10, 2018 6:01 pm

Supporters of Planned Parenthood react to speakers at a rally, Thursday, May 24, 2018, in New York.

Abortionists sue to block accurate data collection on abortion. What do they have to hide?

Rachel N. Busick · December 9, 2018 5:00 am

The pharmaceutical industry has taken heat from Congress and states over the past year for high-cost specialty drugs that insurers and public health programs such as Medicare are struggling to afford.

Good news from the health sector, but don’t thank the government too much

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2018 10:11 pm