Tag: Health

This Jan. 30, 2018, photo shows a Burger King Whopper meal at a restaurant in Charlotte, N.C.

A third of adults eat fast food on a given day, new federal study reveals

Robert King · October 3, 2018 3:38 pm

Steven Collis, chairman, president, and CEO of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, testifies during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 in Washington.

Drug distributor pays feds $625 million for improperly repackaging vital cancer drugs

Robert King · October 2, 2018 12:15 am

Danny Garofalo, rest in peace

Salena Zito · September 29, 2018 10:00 am

Protesters hold signs as they wait for the Virginia Board of Health meeting on abortion clinic regulations in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.

Legal challenge to Virginia abortion restrictions allowed to move forward

Kimberly Leonard · September 27, 2018 8:36 pm

Ana Martinez, a medical assistant at the Sea Mar Community Health Center, gives a patient a flu shot, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 in Seattle. According to an update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, flu is now widespread in every state except Hawaii, but the good news is the flu season appears to be peaking. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Health officials looking to avoid last year’s deadly flu season

Kimberly Leonard · September 27, 2018 4:11 pm

Adolescents are drinking less in Europe: WHO

Maria Biery · September 26, 2018 5:44 pm

World leaders commit to plan to fight tuberculosis

Robert King · September 26, 2018 1:29 pm

This Aug. 29, 2018 photo shows an arrangement of prescription Oxycodone pills in New York. Figures from a 2017 survey released on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, show fewer people used heroin for the first time compared to the previous year, and fewer Americans misusing or addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

Congress reaches final deal on opioid package

Kimberly Leonard · September 26, 2018 11:16 am

CDC: Congenital syphilis cases have more than doubled since 2013

Maria Biery · September 25, 2018 8:02 pm

Helping patients without ending lives

Rep. Jim Banks · September 25, 2018 1:21 pm

The Justice Department, six states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the merger of US Airways and American Airlines Tuesday.

Airlines defeat an ‘existential threat’ in FAA funding bill

Joe Williams · September 24, 2018 7:12 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.

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Despite Obamacare, healthcare spending is spiraling out of control

Sally Pipes · September 21, 2018 4:59 pm