Tag: Health

In this Nov. 6, 1979 file photo, The Bee Gees, from left, Maurice, Robin and Barry Gibb perform in Miami Beach, Fla. Doctors have revived the old disco song "Stayin' Alive" and found that it might actually live up to its name. At 103 beats per minute, the Bee Gees' sung-in-falsetto tune has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.

Staying alive: Man used Bee Gees hit to save woman’s life

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 28, 2019 2:22 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., with, from left, Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., McConnell, John Thune, R-S.D., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019.

Trump donates $100K of salary to alcoholism research

Diana Stancy Correll · January 27, 2019 9:09 pm

This Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows some of 376 Central Americans the Border Patrol says it arrested in southwest Arizona.

Border Patrol struggles with flood of sick migrants

Anna Giaritelli · January 27, 2019 5:00 am

Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., poses for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill in D.C.

GOP Rep. Walter Jones, longtime champion of US Marines, moved to hospice care

Melissa Quinn · January 26, 2019 10:18 pm

Migrants, their faces covered with masks or a T-shirt as the odor of sewage from overused portable toilets pervades the air, wait in the men's line to receive food from the Mexican Navy outside of a sports complex where more than 5,000 Central Americans are sheltering, Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

Disease at border puts migrants at risk: ‘There’s a crisis here’

Anna Giaritelli · January 25, 2019 5:00 am

Air Traffic and pilot unions members protest the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.

Unpaid federal workers given another two-week grace period for dental, vision insurance deductions

Anna Giaritelli · January 25, 2019 2:11 am

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. TrumpÂ prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table as the two countries prepared for their first major negotiation in more than two months in an effort to head off an all-out trade war.

Beltway Confidential

Trump deserves more credit for health policy improvements

Quin Hillyer · January 23, 2019 7:45 pm

Uninsured patients fill out paperwork. Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at Wesley health Center in downtown Phoenix. President Barack Obama has championed two sweeping policy changes that could transform how people live in the United States: affordable health care for all and a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants illegally in the country.

Uninsured rate rises during Trump’s first two years in office

Kimberly Leonard · January 23, 2019 2:33 pm

Beltway Confidential

While WHO gets distracted by climate change and gaming, it’s missing chances to really save lives

Philip Thompson · January 23, 2019 1:30 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

‘Medicare for more’ polls better than ‘Medicare for all’

Kimberly Leonard · January 23, 2019 3:00 am

Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. Demonstrators flocked to a plaza named for San Francisco gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to protest President Donald Trumpâs abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s military transgender ban is more reasonable than you think

Nicole Russell · January 22, 2019 8:58 pm

Red Alert Politics

Screen time may not be so bad after all

Brendan Pringle · January 22, 2019 5:00 am