Health

President Obama is expected to sign a bipartisan bill that offers a financial incentive to states if schools stockpile epinephrine, considered the first-line treatment for people with severe allergies. The medication is administered by injection, through preloaded EpiPens or similar devices. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Education

Bill to help schools combat food allergy attacks heads to president’s desk

Associated Press -

November 13, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows village malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, showing his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin. U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Healthcare

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington -

November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Healthcare

Health improvements in US slow even as costs rise, study finds

Washington Examiner -

November 12, 2013 5:00 am

First lady Michelle Obama tends to the White House garden with a group of children as part of her

Washington Secrets

Generation Cheetos: 96.3% of pediatric office snacks are junk food

Paul Bedard -

November 11, 2013 5:00 am

Education

Vaccine exemptions worry Indiana school, health officials

Washington Examiner -

November 10, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Obama turns Syria focus to measles, humanitarian crisis

Paul Bedard -

November 7, 2013 5:00 am

In mid-September, an employee for MNsure, Minnesota's new health insurance exchange, accidentally disclosed Social Security numbers belonging to about 1,600 insurance agents. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Healthcare

Audit: Numerous factors aided MNsure data breach

Associated Press -

November 7, 2013 5:00 am

Healthcare

NY Times: Hepatitis C, a silent killer, meets its match

Washington Examiner -

November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Columnists

If Big Pharma likes your healthcare plan, you can keep it

Timothy P. Carney -

November 1, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, Easton Area School District students Brianna Hawk, 15, left, and Kayla Martinez, 14, display their

Education

School’s breast cancer bracelet fight could go to Supreme Court

Associated Press -

October 30, 2013 4:00 am

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Tag: Health

Bill to help schools combat food allergy attacks heads to president’s desk

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Health improvements in US slow even as costs rise, study finds

Generation Cheetos: 96.3% of pediatric office snacks are junk food

Vaccine exemptions worry Indiana school, health officials

Obama turns Syria focus to measles, humanitarian crisis

Audit: Numerous factors aided MNsure data breach

NY Times: Hepatitis C, a silent killer, meets its match

If Big Pharma likes your healthcare plan, you can keep it

School’s breast cancer bracelet fight could go to Supreme Court

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