Tag: Health

Energy and Environment

Flint water crisis firsthand

Lisa Ruhl · January 19, 2016 8:47 pm

Nearly two thirds of the new overhead created by Obamacare, $172.2 billion, goes to increased private insurer's administrative costs and profits due to rising enrollment. (AP Photo)Â

Supreme Court declines another Obamacare case

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 19, 2016 3:40 pm

Prescriptions for opioids dropped 22 percent after new rules started, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Restrictions cut into painkiller prescriptions

Robert King · January 19, 2016 5:01 am

Researchers were able to fertilize eggs with a 40-50 percent success rate. (AP photo/Richard Drew)

German researchers develop ‘cyborg sperm’ to treat infertility

Rudy Takala · January 18, 2016 8:19 pm

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · January 18, 2016 12:00 pm

Mary Woolley is president of Research!America, a nonprofit committed to making medical and health research a larger priority in the country. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Health research just got the biggest boost in a decade, but she wants more

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 18, 2016 5:01 am

In a photo from Jan. 2, 2016, Rabecka Cordell picks up a case of bottled water outside the fire station in Flint, Mich. "If the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and bathing in it, there would have been more action," Hillary Clinton said during the debate. (AP Photo/Roger Schneider)

Energy and Environment

‘He didn’t really care’: Clinton slams Mich. governor on water crisis

Kyle Feldscher · January 18, 2016 4:55 am

"Of course we're going to release our medical records," Sanders said Sunday. "It is not a problem." (AP photo/Mic Smith)

Sanders say he’s healthy, will release medical records

Curt Mills · January 17, 2016 7:38 pm

Officials investigated six outbreaks tied to Chipotle last year, including norovirus, E. coli and salmonella. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

All Chipotle stores to close Feb. 8 for food safety meeting

Kelly Cohen · January 15, 2016 3:32 pm

"There's a lot we just don't know about head injuries," said committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. (AP Photo)

House panel to hold concussion roundtable

Robert King · January 15, 2016 12:10 am

In this Sept. 18, 2007, file photo, protesters march near a Planned Parenthood location in Aurora, Ill. (AP Photo)Â

Planned Parenthood sues maker of undercover videos

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 14, 2016 7:08 pm

"I dont believe in abortion on demand," Nancy Pelosi said in an interview published Wednesday. "Im talking about the health of the mother and the child and this is not a decision that a politician should be making. (AP Photo)

Abortion rights group knocks Pelosi

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 13, 2016 9:11 pm