Tag: Health

Beltway Confidential

With a scathing opinion, 11th Circuit panel reluctantly keeps dismemberment abortions legal

Becket Adams · August 23, 2018 8:54 pm

Beware of increasingly common drugged driving on Labor Day

Kevin Sabet · August 22, 2018 4:00 am

Medical panel changes guidance for cervical cancer screening

Kimberly Leonard · August 21, 2018 7:25 pm

The opioid epidemic is a cultural problem, it requires cultural solutions

Ericka Andersen · August 21, 2018 12:00 am

Nick Lyon, Michigan Health and Human Services director, speaks in support of the state's Medicaid expansion program in Lansing, Mich.

Energy and Environment

Michigan health chief faces trial on Flint water crisis manslaughter charges

Diana Stancy Correll · August 20, 2018 9:39 pm

CDC: More babies are breastfed, but not for long enough

Kimberly Leonard · August 20, 2018 5:01 pm

In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 picture, a child gets a dose of vaccine in Chitila, Romania. An outbreak of measles has killed dozens of infants and children in Romania, with 200 new cases reported each week. Doctors say the surge in the disease is aided by low rates of vaccination, fueled in part by media campaigns waged by celebrities who warn of the perils of immunization and also by rural superstitions.

Measles spike in Europe as vaccination lags, leading to dozens of deaths

Kimberly Leonard · August 20, 2018 3:42 pm

Denver VA hospital finished but $1.3 billion over budget: Report

Anna Giaritelli · August 17, 2018 8:45 pm

In this Feb. 26, 2016, photo, a San Francisco city worker tells a homeless man that the area next to him is about to be washed and points to an area he might want to move to.

San Francisco establishes ‘Poop Patrol’ to clean up sidewalks

Mandy Mayfield · August 15, 2018 6:14 pm

President Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House, July 19, 2018, in Washington.

Trump signs law giving suicide lifeline a makeover

Kimberly Leonard · August 14, 2018 8:35 pm

Kratom leaves are arranged for a photograph in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Kratom, a coffee-like evergreen that Southeast Asian farmers have long chewed to relieve pain, is one of the hottest local commodities thanks to the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

Advocates skewer FDA over ‘junk science’ blaming kratom for deaths

Kimberly Leonard · August 14, 2018 6:55 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 20, 2018, in Washington.

Ron Wyden pursues answers on oversight of nursing homes

Robert King · August 14, 2018 6:37 pm