Tag: Health

"The biggest problem we have is we have a very dishonest media," Donald Trump said late Monday at an event in Mechanicsburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: NY Times will hate me no matter what

Anna Giaritelli · August 2, 2016 1:00 am

The administration needed to release stricter travel warnings earlier in 2016, Rep. Lamar Smith said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican blasts Obama for weak travel restrictions for Zika countries

Kyle Feldscher · August 1, 2016 8:43 pm

Gov. Rick Scott also called on the CDC to activate an emergency response team to help assist the Florida Department of Health to investigate, collect samples and assist with mosquito control efforts. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Obama sends CDC team to Florida to fight Zika

Susan Crabtree · August 1, 2016 6:19 pm

"We learned today that four people in our state likely have the Zika virus as a result of a mosquito bite," Rick Scott said in a statement. (AP Photo)

Florida: Mosquitoes are transmitting Zika in the U.S.

Robert King, Pete Kasperowicz · July 29, 2016 2:13 pm

The president has charged the NIH with forming a cohort of 1 million Americans who will allow researchers to sequence their DNA and store it in a massive database to be used for research purposes. (AP Photo)

Researchers outline problems with Obama’s precision medicine initiative

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 28, 2016 6:00 pm

Lawmakers want nursing levels to be boosted and arbitration agreements prohibited. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Dems call for nursing home reforms

Robert King · July 27, 2016 9:21 pm

The CDC is providing $67 million to state health departments and to create seven regional labs that will specialize in detecting and identifying superbug threats. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

CDC ramps up to fight superbugs

Robert King · July 27, 2016 4:26 pm

The World Health Organization has been considering whether to declassify transgender identity as being a mental illness when it releases its updated list of global health conditions. (Christophe Bosset/ Bloomberg News)

World Health Organization considers declassifying transgender as illness

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 27, 2016 3:38 pm

The Ice Bucket Challenge helped raise $115 million in an eight-week period in 2014. The funds helped lead to a significant medical breakthrough in research for ALS. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ice Bucket Challenge funds lead to medical breakthrough in ALS

Kelly Cohen · July 27, 2016 12:27 pm

School nurse Nina Fekaris, right, shows first-grader Ian Bak how to wash his hands at Rock Creek elementary school in Beaverton, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Dems: Train school nurses to respond to terror attacks

Pete Kasperowicz · July 22, 2016 4:38 pm

U.S. Rep. Mark Takai, D-Hawaii, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer, his office announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais )

Hawaii Rep. Mark Takai dies at 49

Cassi Pollock · July 20, 2016 8:14 pm

Beltway Confidential

At the GOP convention? Look out for norovirus

Jason Russell · July 19, 2016 11:11 am