Tag: Health

The Food and Drug Administration keeps a database of reported medical device failures, injuries, and even deaths, but navigating it presents an obstacle to most users. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

FDA must make medical device complaints transparent

Terry Turner · February 8, 2018 5:01 am

The poll released Wednesday found that 38 percent thought Trump has done a "sufficient amount" to address opioid abuse and 36 percent felt he did not, with 26 percent who had no opinion or didn't know. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Public divided over Trump’s handling of opioid epidemic

Robert King · February 7, 2018 4:00 pm

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A dubious legislative solution to the Tide Pod problem

Emily Jashinsky · February 7, 2018 3:43 pm

The rules, created by the Food and Drug Administration, mandate that the menu calories are posted on menu boards for people to see inside a restaurant. Retailers that oppose this say it's cumbersome and expensive to post information for food that is made to order, and there have been particular objections by those whose products are sold mostly through delivery. (AP Photo/Ed Ou, File)

House votes to loosen Obamacare’s menu labeling rules

Kimberly Leonard · February 6, 2018 9:34 pm

The FDA already has a "compassionate use" program that allows use of an experimental drug outside of a clinical trial. But the Senate legislation would let patients bypass that program, which can help monitor the safety of the drug's use. (AP Photo)

Trump aims to get ‘right to try’ drug law across the finish line

Robert King · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

This study shows what many parents already know: Boys and girls have innate differences and any "social construct" surrounding gender is due to those preferences, not the other way around. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Gender isn’t some social construct, study says

Nicole Russell · February 5, 2018 11:03 pm

A report by the Government Accountability Office found that 26 states couldn't report the number of critical safety or quality incidents at an assisted living facility. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

States having big problems tracking safety issues at assisted living facilities, GAO finds

Robert King · February 5, 2018 10:03 pm

As of Jan. 29, nearly 11.8 million people had enrolled in Obamacare coverage in the federal and state exchanges, according to data collected by the pro-Obamacare group Get America Covered. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

State Obamacare enrollment on track to outpace previous years, despite confusion

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2018 5:01 am

Alzheimer's disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S., and its numbers are rising as the baby boomer generation ages. No effective prevention, treatment, or cure exists. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Senators urge Trump administration to bolster Alzheimer’s research

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2018 10:32 pm

Under Obamacare, eating establishments are required to print the calorie count of every item on their menus. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

House sets vote to ease Obamacare rules on menu labels

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2018 9:18 pm

$"I had six fractures, three of them displaced. The bones will never be straight, they'll sort of heal in a crooked fashion now," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)$ News

Rand Paul on his injuries: ‘The bones will never be straight’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2018 2:04 pm

A new mandate requires occupational therapy assistants to obtain bachelor's degrees, something that is not necessarily easily obtained by those pursuing middle-skill, middle-income jobs. (iStock)

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Occupational therapy: You shouldn’t need a degree for that

Garrett Watson, Shoshana Weissmann · February 1, 2018 12:25 am