Tag: Health

The Social Security Disability Insurance programÂ now has 11 million beneficiaries.Â (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Budget deal pushes disability reform to backburner

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2015 5:01 am

On Monday, MyPlate.gov, a division of USDA that dispenses nutrition advice, tweeted out a list of 10 things parents can do to help preschoolers build "healthy mealtime habits." (AP Photo)

USDA to parents: Don’t badmouth icky foods to your kids

Pete Kasperowicz · November 2, 2015 11:25 pm

Beginning in January, doctors can get reimbursed for advising terminally ill patients on what types of interventions they may want to accept or reject.Â (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 2, 2015 6:43 pm

A consumer pays 23andMe $199 and the company sends a kit that has a vial and some solution in it. The person spits in the vial, shakes it up and sends it back to 23andMe, which tests the sample and sends back the results online. (istock photo)

Genetic testing, without leaving your home

Robert King · November 2, 2015 6:01 am

How the GOP can seize the healthcare initiative

Jimmy Soni · October 31, 2015 5:01 am

Home healthcare workers have held rallies in 236 U.S. cities in their push for higher pay and union rights.Â (Bloomberg Photo)

Big Labor trickery on display in effort to unionize home care

Sean Higgins · October 31, 2015 4:01 am

People who knew and used Clinton's private email address enjoyed unfettered access to her. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Clinton doubles down on VA comments as more veteran deaths emerge

Sarah Bedford · October 29, 2015 10:52 pm

While there's still a deep partisan divide over Obamacare, more poll respondents are basing their views on personal experience with the law's provisions. (AP Photo)

Americans deeply worried about healthcare costs

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 28, 2015 3:42 pm

Researchers with Oregon State University patented a strain of seaweed that tastes like bacon when you fry it. (iStock photo)

4 alternatives to bacon

Robert King · October 26, 2015 6:37 pm

The agency said that each 50 g portion of processed meat consumed by someone each day increases the risk of colon cancer by 18 percent. (iStock photo)

Bacon, hot dogs boost cancer risk: WHO

Robert King · October 26, 2015 2:25 pm

Native workers take supervisory and public jobs, while immigrants get physically demanding ones. (AP Photo)

Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs

Washington Examiner Staff · October 26, 2015 4:01 am

Obama links drug abuse epidemic to income inequality

Robert King · October 21, 2015 8:26 pm