Tag: Health

FDA chief plans attack on superbugs in meat supply

Kimberly Leonard · April 24, 2018 7:54 pm

Signage is displayed outside a Planned Parenthood office.

Planned Parenthood sues Indiana over law requiring annual inspections of abortion clinics

Katelyn Caralle · April 24, 2018 4:35 pm

FDA cracks down on e-cigarette sales to minors

Robert King · April 24, 2018 2:57 pm

FILE- In this Jan. 31, 2017, file photo, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's executive session to discuss the nomination of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Congress is at a crossroads after Senate GOP leaders announced on Tuesday, Sept. 26, that they would not take their latest repeal of Barack Obamaâs health care law bill to the floor for lack of support. Alexander said he would resume efforts to reach a bipartisan deal with Murray to stabilize markets for individual insurance policies that 18 million people rely on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Key committee prepares to advance bipartisan bills on opioids, over-the-counter medicines

Kimberly Leonard · April 24, 2018 4:01 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Healthcare groups plea with Trump administration to nix short-term insurance plan rule

Robert King · April 24, 2018 1:51 am

Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy McCain said her husband is "doing fine" despite missing the past two months on Capitol Hill after being diagnosed last summer with glioblastoma. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

John McCain returns home after intestinal infection surgery

Naomi Lim · April 24, 2018 1:16 am

Indiana law blocking abortions based on sex, race, disability found unconstitutional

Melissa Quinn · April 20, 2018 4:42 pm

A monitor displays General Electric Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year. While U.S. stocks have climbed overall, the historic manufacturer's shares have tumbled as CEO John Flannery attempts to turn around a company grappling with challenging markets and an influential activist investor.

GE profit surges despite weakening power business

James Langford · April 20, 2018 11:16 am

Oxycontin in a drug known for it's addiction and theft potential.

Opioid prescribing drops largest amount in 25 years

Kimberly Leonard · April 19, 2018 8:03 pm

Alex Azar, President Donald Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s HHS secretary hospitalized again for infection

Robert King · April 18, 2018 1:54 pm

In this 2014 file photo, a man exhales vapor from an e-cigarette in New York.

Crackdown on e-cigarettes coming, FDA chief says

Robert King · April 17, 2018 7:43 pm

Bernie Sanders wants to fine opioid manufacturers for role in overdose crisis

Kimberly Leonard · April 17, 2018 7:41 pm