Tag: Health

The World Health Organization has been considering whether to declassify transgender identity as being a mental illness when it releases its updated list of global health conditions. (Christophe Bosset/ Bloomberg News)

World Health Organization considers declassifying transgender as illness

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 27, 2016 3:38 pm

The Ice Bucket Challenge helped raise $115 million in an eight-week period in 2014. The funds helped lead to a significant medical breakthrough in research for ALS. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ice Bucket Challenge funds lead to medical breakthrough in ALS

Kelly Cohen · July 27, 2016 12:27 pm

School nurse Nina Fekaris, right, shows first-grader Ian Bak how to wash his hands at Rock Creek elementary school in Beaverton, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Dems: Train school nurses to respond to terror attacks

Pete Kasperowicz · July 22, 2016 4:38 pm

U.S. Rep. Mark Takai, D-Hawaii, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer, his office announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais )

Hawaii Rep. Mark Takai dies at 49

Cassi Pollock · July 20, 2016 8:14 pm

Beltway Confidential

At the GOP convention? Look out for norovirus

Jason Russell · July 19, 2016 11:11 am

The Department of Veterans Affairs tried to shrink the VA Choice Program despite the program's 2 million vets. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

VA boasts 2 million vets on health program it wants to shrink

Diana Stancy Correll · July 15, 2016 5:20 pm

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said blocking the bill again, "months after saying it was so urgent," is tantamount to "tying the hands" of those working to prevent outbreaks of Zika. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senator: Blame Dems if Zika spreads

Mariana Barillas · July 14, 2016 8:46 pm

Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., describes how Obamacare is stealing $3.5 billion from citizens and giving it to insurance companies. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

This Obamacare program is stealing $3.5 billion from you and giving it to insurance companies

Rep. Mark Walker · July 14, 2016 7:34 pm

Senate Dems block Zika funding for the summer

Susan Ferrechio · July 14, 2016 7:03 pm

Check out Planned Parenthood’s Pokemon

Robert King · July 14, 2016 5:29 pm

Spending is growing faster than right before Obamacare started but slower than in the decade preceding it. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Healthcare spending rising faster than inflation

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 13, 2016 8:00 pm

The House Appropriations Committee voted 31-18 to not include an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have enabled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct gun violence research. (Bloomberg News/George Frey, File)

Republicans kill Dems’ gun research efforts

Robert King · July 13, 2016 4:34 pm