Tag: Health

In this Aug. 12, 2014 photo, the contaminated Sonora river makes its way through the hills near the town of Mazocahui, in the northern state of Sonora, Mexico. Eighty-eight schools in Sonora state did not open Monday along with the rest of the country because of the danger of water contaminated by the spill of 10 million gallons (40,000 cubic meters) of acids from a copper mine into this and another river in the region. (AP Photo/El Imparcial, Julian Ortega)

Mexico files complaint against mine in acid spill

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 1:23 am

Environmentalist group says health registry needed

Environmentalist group says health registry needed

Peter Jackson · August 18, 2014 10:52 pm

Dickey's Barbecue Pit is shown Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in South Jordan, Utah. The Utah police agency investigating how iced tea that a woman drank at a restaurant ended up laced with an industrial cleaning solution is forwarding its findings to prosecutors to determine if anybody should be charged. Authorities have said an employee at Dickey's Barbecue in South Jordan unintentionally put the heavy-duty cleaner in a sugar bag, and a worker later mistakenly mixed it into the iced tea dispenser. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Prosecutor to decide on charges in toxic tea case

Brady McCombs · August 18, 2014 10:34 pm

Attorney Paxton Guymon holds a photograph of Jim and Jan Harding during a news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Jan Harding, 67, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital's burn unit, unable to talk and fighting for her life, Guymon said. She drank sweet tea containing a toxic cleaning chemical, severely burning her mouth and throat at a Utah restaurant after an employee mistook the substance for sugar and mixed it into a dispenser, Guymon said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Police: Chemicals in tea due to earlier mix-up

Brady McCombs · August 16, 2014 3:31 am

California porn productions escape condom mandate

California porn productions escape condom mandate

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 1:06 am

FILE - This May 31, 2006 file photo shows Dave Minar, who with his wife and family own Cedar Summit Farm near New Prague, Minn. The small organic dairy has prevailed in its legal effort to force a buyout by a utility building high-voltage power lines along the property. The case involving Cedar Summit was seen as an early test of Minnesota's revised "Buy the Farm" law. The ruling by Scott County Judge Caroline Lennon applies only to that farm, but other landowners in the route of the CapX2020 line from South Dakota through Minnesota have been watching closely. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

‘Buy the Farm’ ruling puts utility on hook

Brian Bakst · August 15, 2014 11:02 pm

A groundbreaking meta-analysis study was just published in State Politics and Policy Quarterly showing the positive impact of state-level pro-life laws in reducing abortion rates. (iStock Photo)

Peer-reviewed studies find state pro-life laws reduce abortion rates

Arina Grossu · August 14, 2014 8:01 pm

Massachusetts hospitals report more medical errors

Massachusetts hospitals report more medical errors

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2014 3:13 pm

In this Aug. 7, 2014, photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ebola is a "painful, dreadful, merciless virus," the United States' top disease fighter says. The outbreak in West Africa has been declared an international health emergency, already killing more than 900 people and spreading. That's scary, and it's serious. But it needs context. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

What’s scary about Ebola — and reasons not to fear it

Connie Cass · August 10, 2014 1:38 pm

Chuck Schumer asks FTC to probe use of fitness data

Chuck Schumer asks FTC to probe use of fitness data

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2014 11:01 am

This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. The World Health Organization on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine)

UN: Ebola outbreak a public health emergency

Maria Cheng · August 8, 2014 11:38 pm

Medicare is fast becoming unsustainable, especially as baby boomers like me enter the system. We may be living longer and healthier lives, but it's costing taxpayers more than we can afford unless something changes. (iStock Photo)

Solution for the looming Medicare crisis

Linda Chavez · August 8, 2014 2:53 pm