Tag: Health

OxyContin is Purdue's No.1 drug, although sales have decreased recently due to generics. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).

OxyContin maker considers bankruptcy as lawsuits pile up

Kimberly Leonard · March 4, 2019 6:42 pm

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019.

Kellyanne Conway stresses destigmatizing opioid addiction

Cassidy Morrison · March 1, 2019 6:36 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why red states are so happy

Madeline Fry Schultz · March 1, 2019 5:00 am

Health savings accounts’ best-kept secrets

Kat Tretina · March 1, 2019 5:00 am

Close-up hand check of pregnancy in hospital.

Abortion is never medically necessary

Donna Harrison, Lila Rose · February 26, 2019 5:00 am

Cocktails.

Beltway Confidential

Now liquor companies are getting into the deceitful GMO game

Kevin Mooney · February 22, 2019 7:08 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

#MeToo hits healthcare

Kimberly Leonard · February 22, 2019 5:00 am

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at an event.

RBG returns to Supreme Court after December surgery

Katelyn Caralle · February 15, 2019 3:53 pm

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Altria Group's plan to take a $12.8 billionÂ stakeÂ in Juul Labs could be destroying value, Citigroup analysts write in a note downgrading the stock to a sell from neutral.

Beltway Confidential

Addicted to fear, the FDA is hurtling toward a historic mistake

Guy Bentley · February 15, 2019 2:06 pm

Medical bankruptcies at every income level

Kat Tretina · February 15, 2019 5:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 29, 2017, in Arlington, Va.

Trump now obese after neglecting doctor’s orders and gaining weight

Kimberly Leonard · February 14, 2019 9:27 pm

Howard University Hospital in Washington is seen Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, as a District of Columbia ambulance passes.

Medicare to allow ambulances more leeway in where they take patients for care

Kimberly Leonard · February 14, 2019 7:57 pm