Tag: Health

FDA clears first drug for blindness sleep disorder

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 9:51 pm

Vodka to blame for high death risk in Russian men

Maria Cheng · January 31, 2014 12:00 pm

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Popular anti-fracking study discredited by Colorado health department

Ashe Schow · January 30, 2014 5:00 am

Customers walk to the the Indiana Food Market in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Group aims to improve food at Pennsylvania corner stores

Kathy Matheson · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Morning-after pill may not work in heavier women

Washington Examiner · January 24, 2014 4:34 pm

Correction: Surgeon General-Smoking story

Washington Examiner · January 23, 2014 6:26 pm

Recently, the FDA fast-tracked approval of a vaccine for the influenza strain H5N1, even though there had not yet been reported cases of H5N1, and the vaccine had been subjected to significantly less clinical research than the meningitis B vaccine. (Thinkstock)

FDA bureaucracy stifles access to life-saving drugs

Erik Telford · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

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EPA to mine Twitter for tweets on diarrhea, vomiting, flu

Paul Bedard · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Students walks past a soda vending machine in the Commons Area of Springfield High School Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, in Springfield, Ill. (AP File)

FDA says it is studying caramel coloring in soda

Washington Examiner · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Capsules of Norvir, an AIDS drug, roll off the manufacturing line at Abbot Laboratories in Chicago, Ill., in February 1996. (AP File)

Abbott spinoff faces new AIDS drug trial for excluded juror

Bloomberg News · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:01 AM, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 2014 - FILE - In this April 9, 1965 file photo, Surgeon General Luther Terry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Commerce Committee hearing on proposed labeling of cigarette packages. It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms _ even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit. A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General's office says the nation is at a crossroads, celebrating decades of progress against the chief preventable killer but not yet poised to finish the job.(AP Photo, File)

Surgeon general adds to list of smoking’s harms

Lauran Neergaard · January 17, 2014 6:20 am

Senators want awards show to be free of e-cigarettes

Sean Lengell · January 14, 2014 5:00 am