Tag: Health

Beltway Confidential

Don’t fear COVID-19 booster shots

Kimberly Ross · November 1, 2021 11:00 am

Florida surgeon general says he can’t ‘communicate clearly’ with mask

Elizabeth Faddis · October 27, 2021 2:51 am

Screenshot, former President Bill Clinton's Twitter

Clinton, on the mend, ‘touched by the outpouring of support’

Associated Press · October 21, 2021 11:52 am

Michigan man dies after being pulled into wood chipper

Christopher Hutton · October 20, 2021 8:39 pm

Transgender Biden administration health official to be sworn in as four-star admiral

Kaelan Deese · October 19, 2021 4:45 pm

FDA delays Moderna vaccine for adolescents due to risk of rare heart condition

Asher Notheis · October 17, 2021 5:16 pm

Trust exercise: How West Virginia plummeted down the COVID-19 vaccination table

Barnini Chakraborty · October 15, 2021 11:00 am

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., joined by from left, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., right, speaks to media about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.

Democrats ‘protect’ women by eliminating them

Lila Rose · October 15, 2021 4:00 am

A teen smoking an e-cigarette.

FDA authorizes first e-cigarette for sale, restricts nontobacco flavors

Christopher Hutton · October 13, 2021 6:15 pm

This Aug. 23, 2018 file photo shows an arrangement of aspirin pills in New York. Older adults without heart disease should not take daily aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. That's according to preliminary updated advice from an influential health guidelines group. The draft guidance posted online Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force backtracks a bit but puts the panel more in line with other medical groups.

Most adults shouldn’t take aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes, experts say

Luke Gentile · October 12, 2021 6:58 pm

This undated image provided by Merck & Co. shows their new antiviral medication. Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. said Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.

Beltway Confidential

New COVID-19 drug and diagnostics could be a game-changer

sheeva-azma, Henry Miller · October 12, 2021 12:00 pm

A worker, wearing a protective mask, carries sacks of rice before the Munoz market closes for it's morning business as they cut their operations to four hours a day as part the enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Poor people lose when Greenpeace prevails

Washington Examiner · October 10, 2021 4:00 am