Tag: Health

Working toward zero maternal deaths: Hospitals and health systems are doing the work

Robyn Begley · August 6, 2019 4:00 am

Trump has promised a dramatically larger Army of 540,000 soldiers, yet DoD has proposed a larger $574.5 billion base budget for the coming year that would instead spend increases on training, maintenance and efforts to shore up the existing military's ability to fight wars. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Adeline Witherspoon, 20th Public Affairs Detachment)

National Security

Troop insomnia shot up 652% after Iraq invasion, with deployments eyed as culprit

Russ Read · August 5, 2019 6:22 pm

Rand Paul says he had surgery to remove part of lung

Caitlin Yilek · August 5, 2019 1:11 pm

A mother and her two children walk across the Suchiate river bridge as Central American migrants cross the border between Guatemala and Mexico, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Hundreds of Central American migrants are walking and hitchhiking through the region as part of a new caravan of migrants hoping to reach the United States.

Beltway Confidential

Illegal immigrant children are sick and dying at the border, and it’s not Border Patrol’s fault

Eddie Scarry · August 2, 2019 5:27 pm

Trump promises America will cure AIDS and childhood cancer ‘very shortly’

John Gage · August 2, 2019 2:38 am

‘Abnormal’: Doctors remove 526 teeth from child’s jaw

Ellie Bufkin · August 1, 2019 3:32 pm

Pharmaceuticals are pictured.

Why must US patients wait for drugs available in other countries?

Naomi Lopez · July 31, 2019 4:00 am

The group assigned more than 2,500 hospitals a single grade based on 28 different measures having to do with sterilization practices, surgical care and health outcomes.

New Jersey law granting terminal patients the right to end their lives goes into effect this week

Zach Halaschak · July 30, 2019 12:59 am

This photo taken Thursday, July 27, 2017, shows a man walks by an healthcare insurance office in Hialeah, Fla.

Health groups appeal decision on Trump administration Obamacare alternatives

Kimberly Leonard · July 29, 2019 5:50 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a candidates forum at the 110th NAACP National Convention, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, in Detroit.

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris’ deeply unserious healthcare plan

Philip Klein · July 29, 2019 2:38 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during the National Urban League Conference, Friday, July 26, 2019, in Indianapolis.

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris’ ‘Medicare for All’ plan is a deceptive attempt to toe the Obamacare line

Kaylee McGhee White · July 29, 2019 1:41 pm

Marianne Williamson seen at YWCA Greater Los Angeles Phenomenal Woman of the Year Award.

Beltway Confidential

Marianne Williamson and the necessity of suffering

Madeline Fry Schultz · July 27, 2019 4:00 am