Tag: Health

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

An F-35B fighter jet lands at Luke Air Force Base in this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 photo, in Goodyear, Arizona.

National Security

Former fighter pilots developing aggressive cancers: Is radar to blame?

Russ Read · August 19, 2019 6:35 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Kamala Harris uncomfortable with healthcare plan she co-sponsored

John Gage · August 19, 2019 4:27 pm

A woman in a beauty salon having her eyebrows threaded.

Don’t thread on me: Shameless rent-seeking in the occupational licensing space

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2019 2:04 pm

Pictured are Donald Trump, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, and JuliÃ¡n Castro.

The boozeless bunch: Will another teetotaler be sworn in as president?

Kimberly Leonard · August 19, 2019 4:00 am

MSNBC panel speculates whether Trump should be removed from office for Alzheimer’s

Mike Brest · August 18, 2019 8:25 pm

President Donald Trump reacts at the end of his speech at a campaign rally.

Trump donating second quarter salary to the Surgeon General’s Office

Ellie Bufkin · August 16, 2019 9:46 pm

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the 'Patience Right to Know Drug Prices Act' and 'Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018,' during a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s drug price controls could cost lives

Sally Pipes · August 16, 2019 2:55 pm

The Anti-Defamation League Thursday called out press outlets that erroneously reported a Jewish family had fled Pennsylvania over a cancelled Christmas play, because of harassment provoked by Fox News and Breitbart. (iStock Photo)

FCC pushing forward with three-digit suicide prevention hotline similar to ‘911’

Zach Halaschak · August 15, 2019 5:14 pm

FDA proposes new requirement for graphic labels on cigarette packs

Cassidy Morrison · August 15, 2019 2:45 pm

Doctor in hospital background with copy space. Healthcare and medical concept.

No, a European-style health system isn’t the answer

Oliver McPherson-Smith · August 15, 2019 1:36 pm