Tag: NIH

Drunk tanks are mobile medical facilities that provide for intoxicated morons who render themselves incapable on a night out. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Drunks in the UK explain the problem with socialized medicine

Tom Rogan · December 29, 2017 9:15 pm

An October study found legalization of marijuana in Colorado resulted in a short-term reduction of opioid deaths from 2000 to 2015. Colorado legalized marijuana back in 2012. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Senate questions role of marijuana in fighting opioid crisis

Robert King · December 7, 2017 4:49 pm

"We need to use all available resources to discover the medical cause and impact of what happened to our embassy personnel in Cuba," House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Democratic counterpart Eliot Engel of New York wrote in a Tuesday letter. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

National Security

Lawmakers ask CDC, NIH to help State Department investigate Cuba attacks

Joel Gehrke · December 5, 2017 8:36 pm

Eric Hargan said President Trump's third-quarter salary donation would be used for the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about opioid addiction. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Acting HHS chief: Opioid epidemic is ‘the crisis of our time’

Salena Zito · December 4, 2017 5:01 am

Slide Fire told customers in an email Tuesday night that bump stocks are again for sale, but in limited quantities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

House Democrats press for answers on NIH funding for gun violence research

Kimberly Leonard · November 14, 2017 10:03 pm

The Trump administration has indicated that combatting the opioid crisis is a priority. President Trump attended a listening session on the subject in March and verbally declared the epidemic an emergency in August. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to fulfill monthslong promise on opioid emergency declaration

Kimberly Leonard · October 22, 2017 4:01 am

Senate Democrats are asking the National Institutes of Health to resume conducting research on gun violence after funding lapsed early this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate Democrats ask Trump administration to renew gun research at NIH

Kimberly Leonard · October 11, 2017 7:15 pm

Republicans, who failed again in the Senate to replace Obamacare last week, said Democrats won't admit that the law is failing while Democrats say Republicans want to take away healthcare from millions of people. But beyond Obamacare as a whole, the two parties do agree on many healthcare issues and have forged bipartisan consensus. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Where Republicans and Democrats agree on healthcare

Robert King, Kimberly Leonard · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

Gates is now in the process of lobbying Congress to reinstate the money, particularly global health funding, which was cut by about a quarter to $6.5 billion for 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Bill Gates ‘disappointed’ by Trump slashing global health funding by a quarter

Naomi Lim · September 24, 2017 8:48 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will undergo radiation and chemotherapy near Washington, D.C., "while maintaining a regular work schedule" in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John McCain will work in Washington during cancer treatment

Susan Ferrechio · September 12, 2017 4:57 pm

NIH budget cuts will damage ‘The American System’

joe-black, sandip-shah · August 10, 2017 4:01 am

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy on Tuesday demanded an explanation about why the National Cancer Institute failed to publish evidence that a widely used herbicide does not cause cancer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trey Gowdy demands answers on why pro-industry cancer research was buried

Todd Shepherd · August 8, 2017 2:00 pm