Tag: Health

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Race to the runway

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2016 2:00 pm

The investigation will focus on how Hampton Roads Regional Jail treats inmates who have mental illnesses, the federal agency said. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File)

DOJ opens investigation into Virginia jail for treatment of mentally ill inmates

Kelly Cohen · December 12, 2016 10:03 pm

The Supreme Court rejected petitioners challenging the NFL's $1 billion settlement of concussion-related lawsuits. The NFL's settlement covers more than 20,000 NFL retirees for the next 65 years. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Supreme Court rejects challenge to NFL concussion settlement

Ryan Lovelace · December 12, 2016 4:11 pm

Healthcare industry lining up for Obamacare repeal

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 12, 2016 5:01 am

Biden: ‘Health’ will be most important factor in weighing 2020 bid

Gabby Morrongiello · December 11, 2016 3:25 pm

The president pleaded with the public to sign up for a healthcare plan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama touts Obamacare enrollment season: It’s ‘most wonderful time of the year’

Anna Giaritelli · December 10, 2016 11:00 am

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Beltway Confidential

Surgeon general abandons public health for e-cig hysteria

Guy Bentley · December 10, 2016 12:02 am

For every story in which a person gets the opportunity to exercise autonomy, we hear a story from someone who is sick or vulnerable about how their autonomy was taken away. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Physician-assisted suicide often steals the autonomy it promises to deliver

Cullen Herout · December 9, 2016 5:02 am

Tom Price is both an ardent opponent of Obamacare and an enthusiastic advocate for a more patient-centered healthcare system. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Price’s Obamacare replacement would shift power to patients — which is why special interests will hate it

Charles Katebi · December 9, 2016 12:00 am

Mother of the self-avowed wife supremacist who is accused of gunning down nine black parishioners collapsed. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool

Dylann Roof’s mother has heart attack in court

Kelly Cohen · December 8, 2016 10:28 pm

The real takeaway is that Americans, on the whole, should look after ourselves better. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Beltway Confidential

Healthcare system not to blame for dip in life expectancy

Hadley Heath Manning · December 8, 2016 9:34 pm

Astronaut and former Sen. John Glenn, 95, has died

Anna Giaritelli, Daniel Chaitin · December 8, 2016 8:26 pm