Tag: Health

Nutritional and medical groups are defending controversial dietary guidelines that call for Americans to eat less meat to help save the environment. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Nutritional alliance defends dietary guidelines

Robert King · March 16, 2015 4:34 pm

The FDA told the Washington Examiner it would now review cleaning instruction data for duodenoscopes. (iStock Photo)

FDA releases new recommendations on devices linked to superbugs

Robert King · March 14, 2015 3:00 pm

Those numbers could affect how much the Obama administration credits the Affordable Care Act for affecting health care spending. [AP Photo]

2014 healthcare spending grew at twice the rate as 2013

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 13, 2015 3:15 pm

A cancer patient sits with a book as she gets her chemotherapy treatment. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Cancer patients surviving longer: CDC

Robert King · March 13, 2015 1:58 pm

Little-known health industry advocates appointed by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services quietly inserted provisions in new federal dietary guidelines to tax foods they deem unhealthy and to authorize official "interventions" to change what Americans eat. (iStock Photo)

Report lays groundwork for food ‘interventionists’ in schools, workplaces

Sarah Bedford · March 12, 2015 11:55 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation that focuses on expanding access to birth control and other health services and improving care for women. (AP Photo)

Women’s health bill could get GOP support

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 5, 2015 9:57 pm

A research assistant with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA carries a portable cooler marked with a biohazard label past the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California has second outbreak of deadly superbugs

Robert King · March 4, 2015 11:51 pm

Buffett: Barring Illness, Hillary ‘Very Likely to Be the President’

Daniel Halper · March 2, 2015 1:15 pm

World Health Organization pushes adoption of ‘smart’ syringes

Robert King · February 23, 2015 6:23 pm

Unlike other food-related pathogens such as salmonella and E. Coli, Listeria monocytogenes can grow at refrigerator temperatures, making it very persistent.

Supermarket delis: Is your bologna safe?

Robert King · February 14, 2015 5:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

Time to raise Social Security’s retirement age

Jason Russell · February 13, 2015 10:00 am

Nearly all troops coming home from Ebola-stricken nations

Brian Hughes · February 11, 2015 7:34 pm