By Susan L Ruth, TWT Communities
Kyle Love, defensive tackle for the Patriots, was released just days after finding out that he has diabetes. Published May 17, 2013
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 Comments
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 Comments
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 Comments
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 Comments
By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press
Ireland unveiled a long-awaited bill Wednesday that lays down new rules governing when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially lethal confusion for women in a country that outlaws terminations. Published May 1, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Obama administration, under massive pressure from both sides of the culture war over contraception, has decided to appeal a federal court’s order to make a morning-after pill available to everyone without a prescription, just a day after expanding access to the pills for younger teenage girls. Published May 1, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
A drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea — now considered a superbug — has some researchers worried the effects could match or even exceed AIDS. Published May 1, 2013
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
A pro-life activist group that uses hidden cameras to go undercover in abortion clinics called Wednesday for a government investigation into the practice of letting "born-alive" children die. Published May 1, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Children as young as 12 in California are able to get free condoms delivered to their doors by simply clicking a computer mouse — and the initiative is reportedly funded partly by federal tax dollars. Published May 1, 2013
By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press
For people seeking an energy boost, companies are increasing their offerings of foods with added caffeine. A new caffeinated gum may have gone too far. Published April 30, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama on Tuesday vowed that his health care law will be a success for both insured and soon-to-be-covered Americans, even though it is a "big, complicated piece of business" facing ceaseless criticism on Capitol Hill and roadblocks to implementation in Republican-led states. Published April 30, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. and - The Washington Times
Opponents of President Obama's health care law are eagerly scouring the paperwork insurers file with states, looking for early evidence of "rate shock" — rising prices ahead of full implementation of the state "exchanges" that begin next year. Published April 29, 2013
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
New undercover videos of abortion professionals explaining late-term abortions, coupled with states passing strict abortion laws and a horror-show abortion criminal case, are keeping abortion at the top of the news — an unexpected development after the nation re-elected its most vocal pro-choice president. Published April 29, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released its latest cosmetic and reconstructive surgery statistics on Monday, revealing that upper-arm liposuction has seen a 4,378 percent increase since 2000 — a signal that women are paying much more attention to public figures' "guns." Published April 29, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Obama offered a defiant defense of government funding for Planned Parenthood Friday and urged the group's members to help his administration sign up more women for benefits under his besieged health-care law. Published April 26, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Federal authorities have shut down a clinical trial for an HIV vaccine after finding that test subjects were at risk for contracting the virus. Published April 26, 2013
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
Alarms are being sounded on Capitol Hill about the emerging problem of an untreatable gonorrhea "superbug," and tens of millions of dollars are being sought to prepare for an expected outbreak in the U.S. Published April 25, 2013
By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
Bad news in the fight against the AIDS virus: The government is halting a large U.S. study of a possible HIV vaccine because the experimental shots aren't preventing infection. Published April 25, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A Republican congressman asked President Obama's top health official on Thursday to declare whether a specific morning-after pill is an abortion-causing drug. Published April 25, 2013
