Tag: Health

White House asks for $30M for CDC’s Ebola efforts

White House asks for $30M for CDC’s Ebola efforts

Andrew Taylor · September 5, 2014 11:40 pm

A health worker, right, sprays a man with disinfectant chemicals as he is suspected of dying due to the Ebola virus as people, rear, look on in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors' blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it's worth a shot. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Use Ebola survivors’ blood to treat patients

MARIA CHENGCLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY · September 5, 2014 7:51 pm

Premiums for benchmark health insurance plans under Obamacare will go down in 15 major cities, a new study showed.ÃÂ (iStock image)

Some may see lower insurance premiums soon

Kelly Cohen · September 5, 2014 12:45 pm

Ky. gov. extends smoking ban to all state property

Ky. gov. extends smoking ban to all state property

Adam Beam · September 4, 2014 9:22 pm

In 2008, governments at all levels were responsible for about $1.4 trillion, or 41 percent, of the nation's health spending. But by 2023, governments will be spending $2.5 trillion, or 48 percent, of the national total. (iStock Photo)

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CHART: Government share of U.S. health spending surging under Obamacare

Philip Klein · September 3, 2014 8:00 pm

FDA: Little evidence to support testosterone drugs

FDA: Little evidence to support testosterone drugs

Matthew Perrone · September 3, 2014 7:18 pm

A CVS employee removes tobacco products from the store shelves in East Greenwich, R.I. (AP Photo/CVS Health)

White House praises CVS for halting tobacco sales

Susan Crabtree · September 3, 2014 4:01 pm

Michelle Obama cameo in ‘Funny or Die’ video showing kids dying from candy

Michelle Obama cameo in ‘Funny or Die’ video showing kids dying from candy

Paul Bedard · September 3, 2014 3:42 pm

FILE - This Aug. 18, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama urged West Africans on Tuesday to wear gloves and masks when caring for Ebola patients or burying anyone who died of the disease. He also discouraged the traditional burial practice of directly touching the body of someone who died of Ebola, which is one way the disease has been spreading in the region. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obama addresses West Africans on facts about Ebola

Darlene Superville · September 2, 2014 8:53 pm

Public Health Official in Chief: President Gives Ebola Warning to West African Nations

Public Health Official in Chief: President Gives Ebola Warning to West African Nations

Jeryl Bier · September 2, 2014 12:01 pm

FILE - This Oct. 8, 2012 file photo shows the wrecked Subaru Impreza in which four people died as it is loaded onto a flatbed truck on the Southern State Parkway in West Hempstead, N.Y., after and early-morning accident. At the wheel was a New York teenager, Joseph Beer, who had smoked about $20 worth of marijuana, before getting into the car with four friends, and driving over 100 mph before crashing into trees with such force that it split the car in half. As states liberalize their marijuana laws, public officials and safety advocates worry that more drivers high on pot will lead to a spike in traffic deaths. Researchers who have studied the issue, though, are divided over whether toking before taking the wheel in fact leads to more accidents. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)

Marijuana’s hazy contribution to highway deaths

Joan Lowy · September 2, 2014 11:33 am

This is a an undated handout file photo issued by Hampshire Police on Monday Sept. 1, 2014 of Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken by his parents from hospital without the consent of his doctors. Critically-ill 5-year-old boy Ashya King driven to Spain by his parents, Brett and Naghemeh, against doctors' advice is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor in a Spanish hospital as his parents await extradition to Britain, police said Sunday Aug. 31, 2014. Officers received a phone call late Saturday from a hotel east of Malaga advising that a vehicle fitting the description circulated by police was on its premises. Both parents were arrested and the boy, Ashya King, was taken to a hospital, a Spanish police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Hampshire Police)

Parents of ill UK boy fight extradition from Spain

DANICA KIRKAMARIA CHENG · September 1, 2014 7:36 pm