Robert King

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Kentucky insurer shuts down

Robert King · October 9, 2015 11:05 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie SandersÂ won't vote for Robert Califf as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.Â (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Sanders won’t back Obama’s pick for FDA chief

Robert King · October 9, 2015 6:05 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, accompanied by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said thatÂ Turing Pharmaceuticals' Martin Shkreli hasn't lowered the price of a drug that he jacked up 5,000 percent. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lawmakers ‘sickened’ over drug CEO

Robert King · October 9, 2015 4:44 pm

This Wednesday, May 13, 2015, photo shows the North American headquarters of Bayer Healthcare in Whippany, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Lawmaker wants birth control device off the market

Robert King · October 9, 2015 4:32 pm

Whole FoodsÂ is recalling all of its cut, wrapped and weighed Papillion organic Roquefort cheese because it has the potential to be contaminated with a deadly bacteria called Listeria moncytogenes.Â (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Whole Foods recalls contaminated Roquefort cheese

Robert King · October 8, 2015 2:58 pm

Wall Street drubbed drug industry, but it won’t last

Robert King · October 8, 2015 4:01 am

The administration doesn't believe they are "the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability," according to a blog post from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Administration relents, won’t push climate in diet guidelines

Robert King · October 7, 2015 5:35 pm

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Tuesday that he wants a commitment that the agency will be held responsible on opioid approvals after several controversial decisions. (AP Photo)

‘Rogue’ FDA could stoke painkiller abuse: Senator

Robert King · October 7, 2015 4:01 am

Susan Lynch, a nurse practitioner, checks over a patients electronic medical records, at the Central Florida Family Health Center in Sanford, Fla., Monday, March 2, 2009. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Feds won’t delay electronic records rule

Robert King · October 6, 2015 10:01 pm

"I don't think we are as scared of heroin today as I felt when I was a teenager," said Dr.Â Oz. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Dr. Oz talks heroin on Capitol Hill

Robert King · October 6, 2015 7:26 pm

"No issue is more deserving of our undivided attention than protecting the dignity of human life," said Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., vice chairwoman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.Â (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House to consider panel to investigate Planned Parenthood

Robert King · October 6, 2015 6:38 pm

The White House's last-minute compromise on drug copyright protectionsÂ in the Trans-Pacific PartnershipÂ appears to have pleased nobody. (AP Photo)

Why everybody hates the drug deal in the trade pact

Robert King · October 6, 2015 4:01 am