Tag: Health

Ana Martinez, a medical assistant at the Sea Mar Community Health Center, gives a patient a flu shot, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 in Seattle. According to an update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, flu is now widespread in every state except Hawaii, but the good news is the flu season appears to be peaking. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Health officials looking to avoid last year’s deadly flu season

Kimberly Leonard · September 27, 2018 4:11 pm

Adolescents are drinking less in Europe: WHO

Maria Biery · September 26, 2018 5:44 pm

World leaders commit to plan to fight tuberculosis

Robert King · September 26, 2018 1:29 pm

This Aug. 29, 2018 photo shows an arrangement of prescription Oxycodone pills in New York. Figures from a 2017 survey released on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, show fewer people used heroin for the first time compared to the previous year, and fewer Americans misusing or addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

Congress reaches final deal on opioid package

Kimberly Leonard · September 26, 2018 11:16 am

CDC: Congenital syphilis cases have more than doubled since 2013

Maria Biery · September 25, 2018 8:02 pm

Helping patients without ending lives

Rep. Jim Banks · September 25, 2018 1:21 pm

The Justice Department, six states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the merger of US Airways and American Airlines Tuesday.

Airlines defeat an ‘existential threat’ in FAA funding bill

Joe Williams · September 24, 2018 7:12 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.

Beltway Confidential

Despite Obamacare, healthcare spending is spiraling out of control

Sally Pipes · September 21, 2018 4:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Ireland is rushing to provide free abortions — and will regret it

Nicole Russell · September 21, 2018 12:00 am

FDA warns common tick, flea meds are making pets sick

Kimberly Leonard · September 20, 2018 8:05 pm

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera.

It’s not just China — Trump needs to protect US intellectual property in Chile as well

Steven Tepp · September 19, 2018 4:00 am

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., speaks at a news conference calling for Senate action on H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019.

John Dingell after heart attack: 'I’m still here and you’re not done with me yet'

Naomi Lim · September 18, 2018 9:35 pm