Tag: Health

—œCigarettes are causing cancer, obviously, and a dozen other diseases," Sanders said on —œMeet the Press." "And there is almost the question as to why it remains a legal product in this country.—? (iStock photo)

Sanders thinks about banning cigarettes

Curt Mills · April 24, 2016 3:18 pm

The hospital allowed the show to film one person who was dying and another with significant diseases. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

N.Y. hospital fined for letting ABC film dying patient

Anna Giaritelli · April 21, 2016 10:52 pm

Motown legend Aretha Franklin openly speculated as to whether music icon Prince died from the Zika virus. (AP Photos)

Aretha Franklin speculates about Zika’s role in Prince death

Robert King · April 21, 2016 8:09 pm

The issue of opioid addiction should be viewed holistically, with emphasis on access to help and treatment at all stages of addiction and recovery. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Confronting the heroin and opioid epidemic

Rep. Bob Gibbs · April 20, 2016 4:04 am

Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives. The result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Conservatives vindicated by Obamacare’s mounting failures

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2016 4:01 am

"We are starting to see [the disorders], but we don't know how frequent it is going to be, but at least we have seen them and that is concerning," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health's Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Zika may be linked to another brain disorder

Robert King · April 17, 2016 2:17 pm

About 4.7 million students smoked in 2015, roughly the same amount as in 2011.

CDC: Just as many kids smoking

Robert King · April 14, 2016 5:26 pm

The Easton Home in Easton, Pa. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are increasingly using sight, sound and other sensory cues to stimulate memory in people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Washington Secrets

Frailty Index: Elderly in need forgotten by family, friends, caregivers

Paul Bedard · April 12, 2016 10:12 pm

"The best way to confront something is before it becomes a crisis, you prevent it." (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rubio on Zika: ‘There is no crisis’

Joel Gehrke · April 8, 2016 10:45 pm

The White House has urged Congress to approve more than $1.3 billion more to reach the $1.8 billion President Obama had requested earlier this year to fight Zika. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

White House blames Zika funding fight on GOP ‘animosity’

Susan Crabtree · April 6, 2016 6:14 pm

A report from the American Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage ranging from 61,700 to 94,700, and says there will be a specific shortage of doctors with surgical specialties. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Report predicts doctor shortage over the next decade

Robert King · April 5, 2016 8:52 pm

A new White House report paints a dire picture of a future in which climate change continues on its current track. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Energy and Environment

WH predicts litany of dire climate change consequences

Kyle Feldscher · April 4, 2016 5:25 pm