By Jennifer C. Kerr - Associated Press
The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Kristen Wyatt - Associated Press
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
Plummeting birthrates among all teens — especially Hispanics — has helped bring this vital statistic to record-low levels, says a new federal report. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The federal government has signed a $200 million deal with GlaxoSmithKline to develop powerful antibiotics that can combat bioterrorism and overcome resistance issues that have made some prescriptions worthless in recent years. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
A federal judge Friday temporarily blocked a first-of-its-kind Arkansas law that would effectively have prevented most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Up to 20 percent of America's youth are mentally ill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds in a new report that looked at the health of adolescents. Published May 17, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
House Republicans cheered their vote on Thursday to repeal President Obama's health care law as the triumph of reason and public opinion over false promises from the White House. Democrats called them insane. Published May 16, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man — clinically dead for 40 minutes — was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
An estimated 3,000 doctors have signed a petition of protest against the psychiatric industry's latest bible for diagnosis and treatment, the DSM-5, charging its contents could lead patients to be prescribed unnecessary medications. Published May 15, 2013
By Kelli Kennedy and Pete Yost - Associated Press
Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Prepare your wallet. Health premiums are set to rise by as much as 400 percent under Obamacare. That's according to a new report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee released this week that uses information from the nation's largest health insurance companies to estimate the emerging costs of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Published May 14, 2013
By Associated Press
Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. Published May 14, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Top federal lawmakers say the time has come to overhaul the way physicians are paid under Medicare, a long-standing problem that encourages medical providers to offer more procedures instead of seeking to improve the quality of care. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
In a case that attracted national attention, Philadelphia inner-city abortion provider Kermit B. Gosnell was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday in the deaths of three born-alive babies by "snipping" their spines. Published May 13, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Obama administration on Monday asked an appeals panel to delay the enforcement of a federal judge's stern order to make emergency contraception available to women of all ages without a prescription. Published May 13, 2013
