Tag: Health

FDA proposes banning sales of e-cigarettes to youths

FDA proposes banning sales of e-cigarettes to youths

Sean Lengell · April 24, 2014 4:00 am

More than three dozen veterans died waiting for treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs' Phoenix facilities, CNN reported Wednesday evening. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

More deaths from bad care at Veterans Affairs health facilities

Charles Hoskinson · April 24, 2014 4:00 am

When things go well, the Food and Drug Administration typically hears little praise from Congress and the media. (Thinkstock)

Manhattan Moment: Seeking best practices at the FDA

Paul Howard · April 24, 2014 4:00 am

Study: Gene therapy may boost cochlear implants

Study: Gene therapy may boost cochlear implants

Lauran Neergaard · April 23, 2014 7:20 pm

Sen. John Boozman had emergency surgery Tuesday for an unspecified medical condition, his office said. (AP Photo)

Sen. John Boozman has emergency heart surgery

Sean Lengell · April 22, 2014 4:00 am

Under the FDA's expanded access program for investigational products, the agency has worked closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make the unapproved MenB vaccine, Bexsero, available as quickly as possible for use on two college campuses. (Thinkstock)

FDA official: Agency is committed to timely approval of vaccines

karen-midthun · April 18, 2014 4:00 am

Bellwethers are not always easy to detect, but, in the case of Obamacare, the harbingers of things to come for millions of Americans are everywhere.

Manhattan Moment: Obamacare still holds opportunities for free-market reform

Yevgeniy Feyman · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Gov. Patrick: Appeal of Zohydro ruling unlikely

Gov. Patrick: Appeal of Zohydro ruling unlikely

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 9:39 pm

The IG reviewed 664 face-to-face encounter documents of "home health agencies." (Thinkstock)

Questionable Medicare claims cost HHS billions, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

A sales associate demonstrates the use of a electronic cigarette and the smoke like vapor that comes from it in Aurora, Colo. on March 2, 2011.ÃÂ The electronic cigarette industry is booming, with sales doubling annually since 2008 and revenue expected to reach at least $1.5 billion this year.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Lawmakers say e-cigarette makers target kids

Sean Lengell · April 14, 2014 4:00 am

Feds to Ban Junk Food in Schools

Feds to Ban Junk Food in Schools

Geoffrey Norman · April 12, 2014 1:32 pm

In this photo issued by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and taken in April 2014, Yuanyuan Zhang, M.D., Ph.D, assistant professor at the Institute, demonstrates the process to engineer a vaginal organ in a laboratory in Winston Salem, N.C. Scientists report in two separate studies they have made vaginas and part of the nose, providing more evidence that growing organs in the laboratory is possible. Researchers have previously made windpipes, bladders, tear ducts and other organs in the lab. The two latest papers were published online Friday April 11, 2014 in the journal, Lancet. (AP Photo/WFBMC Photography)

Studies: Lab-grown nostrils, vaginas working well

MALCOLM RITTERMARIA CHENG · April 11, 2014 8:25 am