Tag: Health

Vaping teenager. Young girl smoking an electronic cigarette in vape bar.

Beltway Confidential

Why nobody cares about teen smoking

Guy Bentley · August 26, 2019 10:00 am

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York.

Fake buyers raiding medicine cabinets at open houses to steal opioids from home sellers

Cassidy Morrison · August 26, 2019 4:00 am

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden approaches reporters to answer questions following a campaign stop at Lindy's Diner in Keene, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019.

‘Actually not funny’: Linda Sarsour questions Biden’s mental health

Carlin Becker · August 26, 2019 12:51 am

Infant girl in critical condition after crossing border from Mexico with her father

Ellie Bufkin · August 24, 2019 6:21 pm

Former U.S Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a conference in Athens, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Biden stressed the need for action against climate change. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Biden pledges to end HIV epidemic by 2025 — five years earlier than Trump

Kimberly Leonard · August 23, 2019 9:09 pm

A billboard for CNN is shown Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 in New York.

CNN panel: ‘You don’t have to be a mental health professional’ to discuss Trump’s mental state

Mike Brest · August 22, 2019 4:38 pm

This undated image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows proposed graphic warnings that would appear on cigarettes.

Beltway Confidential

Sorry FDA, grotesque cigarette labels won’t keep anyone from smoking

J. J. Rich · August 22, 2019 11:00 am

‘In a word, gross’: Modern DNA tests reveal doctors used their own sperm in artificial insemination procedures

Zach Halaschak · August 21, 2019 10:00 pm

Danger of drugs and guns

On guns and opioids, fear is driving policy

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2019 2:33 pm

The young have a higher poverty rate than the elderly who benefit from Social Security. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Payroll tax cut would destroy Social Security and Medicare

Quin Hillyer · August 20, 2019 6:45 pm

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York.

War on drugs win: Opioid and heroin abuse declined last year

Cassidy Morrison · August 20, 2019 4:55 pm

University of California, Irvine, researcher Hans Keirstead holds a special bottle with human embryonic stem cells during an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, in his lab at the Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility in Irvine, Calif. Not a single person has been helped by human embryonic stem cells. But in his cramped labs, Keirstead is getting tantalizingly close with the paralyzed rats he has made walk with stem cell injections.

Defund grotesque taxpayer-funded human fetal tissue experiments on lab animals

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2019 4:00 am