Tag: Health

Ohio Congressman Pushes Salad Bars in Schools

alexandra-seymour · June 17, 2015 5:08 pm

Births in the U.S. were up last year for the first time in seven years. (iStock Photo)

U.S. births rising after years of decline

Kelly Cohen · June 17, 2015 3:21 pm

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., speaks at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King preached, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Georgia senator has Parkinson’s disease

Kelly Cohen · June 10, 2015 4:52 pm

A scientist observes chromosomes through a microscope at Birmingham Women's Hospital on Jan. 22, 2015 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Advocates play key part in getting new drugs for rare disease

Robert King · June 9, 2015 3:39 pm

A House plan to use the nation's emergency oil supply as a piggy bank to fund a new healthcare initiative is alarming the energy industry. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Trading crude for cures

John Siciliano · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

The fast food industry grossed more than $191 billion in 2013, according to Statista. (AP Photo)Â

What is your state’s fast food ranking?

Emilie Padgett · June 6, 2015 4:01 am

The bill would require the secretary of Agriculture to create a plan for promoting salad bars in schools. (Getty Images)

Dems offer federal grants, ‘technical assistance’ to help schools build salad bars

Pete Kasperowicz · June 5, 2015 2:45 pm

Beijing to Try Another Smoking Ban

Ethan Epstein · June 3, 2015 12:06 pm

Michelle Obama Turns Attention to ‘Promote Pollinator Health’

Daniel Halper · June 2, 2015 1:20 am

Allmax Nutrition IsoFlex sued over claims

LocalLabs News Service · June 1, 2015 6:15 pm

Accredo Health Group paying $60M in national settlement

LocalLabs News Service · June 1, 2015 5:52 pm

Supporters of proposed legislation allowing doctors to prescribe life ending medication to terminally ill patients, hold up signs of support during a hearing on the bill in the Senate Health Committee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old San Francisco Bay Area woman who had terminal cancer, moved to Oregon where she could legally end her life. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California committee advances assisted suicide bill

Kelly Cohen · May 29, 2015 12:02 pm