Robert King

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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)

Republicans slam health IT program

Robert King · March 17, 2015 3:56 pm

U.S. Ebola patient in critical condition

U.S. Ebola patient in critical condition

Robert King · March 16, 2015 5:23 pm

Nutritional and medical groups are defending controversial dietary guidelines that call for Americans to eat less meat to help save the environment. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Nutritional alliance defends dietary guidelines

Robert King · March 16, 2015 4:34 pm

The FDA told the Washington Examiner it would now review cleaning instruction data for duodenoscopes. (iStock Photo)

FDA releases new recommendations on devices linked to superbugs

Robert King · March 14, 2015 3:00 pm

Schumer said the powdered substance could help spur underage drinking. [AP Photo]

Senate Democrat wants to ban powdered alcohol

Robert King · March 13, 2015 5:43 pm

The Obama administration has approved three more states to run their own Obamacare insurance exchanges. (AP Photo)

Admin focus on more Obamacare enrollment, not botched tax forms

Robert King · March 13, 2015 4:25 pm

A cancer patient sits with a book as she gets her chemotherapy treatment. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Cancer patients surviving longer: CDC

Robert King · March 13, 2015 1:58 pm

A permanent fix to prevent doctors from losing a chunk of their Medicare payments has yet to emerge from Congress. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Murky path to permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’

Robert King · March 13, 2015 9:00 am

An American healthcare workerÃ¢â¬â¢s condition continues to improve, as the National Institutes of Health upgraded the worker to fair condition. (AP Photo)

American Ebola patient to get treatment in Maryland

Robert King · March 12, 2015 9:26 pm

Outgoing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Confusion reigns over Obamacare-related FDA menu rule

Robert King · March 12, 2015 4:52 pm

The drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi, made by Gilead, threw Medicare for a loop when they hit the market.

Medicare spending rises to highest total since 2003

Robert King · March 11, 2015 11:11 pm

Republican state Rep. Art Wittich, who chairs the committee, told the Associated Press he wasn't convinced that spending "more government money on healthcare is going to fix healthcare." (AP Photo/Matt Gouras, file)

Montana legislature kills Medicaid expansion

Robert King · March 11, 2015 2:57 pm