Tag: Health

Agency also announced measures to expand access to healthy food. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Energy and Environment

USDA to help Flint residents get tested for lead in blood

Kyle Feldscher · February 10, 2016 8:07 pm

Southern California Gas Co. has said in news releases and FAQs on its website that since the crisis began, just two air samples briefly showed elevated concentrations of the substance. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker, File)

Energy and Environment

Dem wants feds to investigate California methane leak

Kyle Feldscher · February 10, 2016 3:49 pm

A House Democrat says the federal government needs to step in to ensure that airlines don't make airplane seats too narrow for Americans who are getting heavier and heavier each year.

Dem wants wider airplane seats for wider Americans

Pete Kasperowicz · February 10, 2016 1:01 pm

Energy and Environment

Emails show Mich. officials knew of a deadly outbreak in Flint in 2014

Kyle Feldscher · February 10, 2016 12:32 am

Obama: Don’t ‘panic’ over the Zika virus

Kelly Cohen · February 8, 2016 1:33 pm

"Families across the country have made clear that paying for prescription drugs is an increasingly unsustainable burden," said Ranking Member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo)

Prospects looking good for medical research bills

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2016 5:01 am

Matt Bevin is moving forward with plans to ditch the exchange, but last month announced a budget proposal that would continue funding for Medicaid as the program currently stands. (AP Photo)

Kentucky shows it’s hard to roll back Medicaid

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 8, 2016 5:01 am

"Increasingly, families understand the unique benefits of breastfeeding, and visitors to these buildings who have newborns and babies should have a private space to breastfeed or pump," Eleanor Holmes Norton said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Dem demands more lactation rooms in federal buildings

Pete Kasperowicz · February 3, 2016 10:41 pm

A link in the tweet takes readers to USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, which has a recipe for fruit kabobs. It calls for ripe banana slices, watermelon cubes and clementine sections. (USDA Twitter)

Government wants people to make ‘fruit kabobs’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 3, 2016 4:55 pm

The WHO said it is very concerned about a potential link between microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and can lead to brain damage, and Zika. (AP Photo)

WHO declares public emergency for Zika outbreak

Robert King · February 1, 2016 7:05 pm

Chipotle saw its sales in December plunge after the E. coli cases were linked to the outbreak and it was forced to temporarily close dozens of locations in Colorado and Washington. (AP Photo)

Chipotle cleared of E. coli

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 1, 2016 6:25 pm

U.S. wildfires burned a record 10.1 million acres in 2015, and the Forest Service spent 52 percent of its budget fighting fires, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last month. (AP Photo)

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · February 1, 2016 5:01 am