Tag: Health

Hospitals should be inspected for cleanliness, including testing for bacterial contamination levels. After all, in big cities,Â restaurants are routinely inspected for hygiene and results made available to the public.

It’s time for American hospitals to come clean

Betsy McCaughey · October 19, 2015 4:01 am

Our nation has yet to fully recognize the urgent need to expand access to care for drug addicts and provide outcomes-based treatment models that can save lives. (AP Photo)

The system is broken: We need to change how we treat addiction

Marybeth Cichocki · October 17, 2015 4:01 am

Binge drinking costs the U.S. nearly $250 billion a year, according to the CDC.Â (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Downing that gin downs the economy, too

Robert King · October 16, 2015 4:01 am

Clinton also would impose federally dictated prices on new medicines by forcing drug makers to calculate, using some sort of pseudo-scientific formula, each new drug's R&D cost. (Bloomberg/Daniel Acker)

Hillary on drugs: Bad prescription

John Graham · October 14, 2015 4:01 am

BPA is a chemical used for more than five decades to make hard clear plastics and epoxy resins that line the inside of steel and aluminum cans.Â (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Taxpayer-funded anti-BPA activism is the real danger

Angela Logomasini · October 14, 2015 4:01 am

Sanders would legalize pot in Vermont

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 14, 2015 3:22 am

Health insurance costs are only going to increase as long as we continue to ignore the serious problem of defensive medicine. (AP Photo)

Attack defensive medicine to reduce healthcare costs

wayne-oliver, jeff-segal · October 13, 2015 4:01 am

California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislationÂ which would allow terminal patients access to medicines certified as safe but not approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration.Â (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Beltway Confidential

Jerry Brown: Suicide good, extending life not

Michael Barone · October 12, 2015 9:53 pm

Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.Â Brittany Maynard became the long-awaited face of the right-to-die movement.Â (AP Photo/Carl Costas, File)

Legalized assisted suicide is dangerous

David Stevens · October 12, 2015 4:01 am

The legislation, dubbed the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, represents a relatively rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans have agreed to tweak the 2010 healthcare law.Â (AP file photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama signs Obamacare change

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 8, 2015 4:16 pm

Whole FoodsÂ is recalling all of its cut, wrapped and weighed Papillion organic Roquefort cheese because it has the potential to be contaminated with a deadly bacteria called Listeria moncytogenes.Â (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Whole Foods recalls contaminated Roquefort cheese

Robert King · October 8, 2015 2:58 pm

The 89-year-old former representative was admitted on Monday for evaluation and a heart-related procedure. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Former Rep. Dingell in the hospital for heart issues

Daniel Chaitin · October 7, 2015 9:26 pm