Tag: Health

D. J. Meek, a 40-year-old homeless drug addict, smokes crystal meth Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles.

Methamphetamines outpace all other drug arrests in most states

Anna Giaritelli · December 5, 2018 9:47 pm

Workers handle boxes inside the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J.

Bear repellent set off in New Jersey Amazon facility sends 24 to hospital

Maria Biery · December 5, 2018 6:37 pm

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Prohibition died 85 years ago today; fearmongering pseudoscience about alcohol lives on

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 5, 2018 5:44 pm

Crowd of people shaped like transgender symbol.

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Puberty blockers for six-year olds: Ugly new fronts in the gender wars

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 3, 2018 7:50 pm

CDC: Polio-like illnesses seem to have peaked

Kimberly Leonard · December 3, 2018 7:24 pm

Yellow lollipops spill out of a cooling machine during production in Ohio.

Beltway Confidential

Drugs, despair, and sugar: Americans’ lifespans keep on shrinking

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 29, 2018 5:19 pm

FILE - In this June 17, 2016 file photo, Erika Marble visits the gravesite of Edward Martin III, her fiancÃ© and father of her two children, in Littleton, N.H. The 28-year old died Nov. 30, 2014, from an overdose of the opioid Fentanyl. Drug overdose deaths increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the U.S. as of 2016. New Hampshire saw a 191 percent increase while Massachusetts, North Dakota, Connecticut and Maine saw death rates jump by more than 100 percent.

US life expectancy drops again due to drug use, suicides

Kimberly Leonard · November 29, 2018 1:54 pm

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., co-chairman of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Thursday, July 28, 2016.

House Democrat asks for delay on leadership vote

Naomi Lim · November 27, 2018 9:28 pm

Former Supreme Court justice decided to retire after suffering mini-stroke during Citizens United dissent

Caitlin Yilek · November 26, 2018 6:30 pm

General Michael Hayden, principal of the Chertoff Group and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regarding Iran's nuclear program in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama is set to deliver a speech on why the Iran nuclear agreement is in the best interest of the U.S. on Wednesday at American University in Washington. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden hospitalized after suffering stroke

Naomi Lim · November 23, 2018 7:09 pm

In this May 10, 2012, file photo, a doctor holds Truvada pills at her office in San Francisco.

Health panel pushes doctors to expand use of HIV prevention medication

Kimberly Leonard · November 20, 2018 8:49 pm

CDC creates task force to find cause of spike in polio-like illness afflicting kids

Robert King · November 19, 2018 10:54 pm