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Washington Secrets

Fed study: Snorers doze off driving twice as much as non-snorers

Paul Bedard -

July 8, 2014 6:18 pm

FILE - This May 27, 2014 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama, with Eric Goldstein, chief executive officer, Office of School Support Services, New York City Department of Education, left, and Donna Martin, School Nutrition Program, Burke County Board of Education, in Georgia, during a discussion with school leaders and experts on school nutrition in an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Obama stressed the importance of students, parents, school officials, community leaders, and health advocates coming together to protect and advance the progress that has been made in schools across our country. She is in the biggest fight of her tenure as she pushes back against a House Republican effort to soften a key component of the anti-childhood obesity effort at the center of her legacy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Education

First lady bucks GOP on school lunch rules

Darlene Superville -

July 5, 2014 9:42 pm

The VA mouthpieces are preoccupied with covering their ample bureaucratic backsides, withholding data, monitoring critics, fending off watchdogs and running constant interference for their corrupt, negligent agency. (AP Photo)

Columnists

Inside the Veterans Affairs’ spin-‘n-stonewall machine

Michelle Malkin -

July 2, 2014 2:56 pm

Order the Super Size. It’s Legal.

Geoffrey Norman -

June 26, 2014 5:48 pm

In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 photo, technical assistant Eliska Didyk transfers human fecal matter solution into a bottle in an OpenBiome laboratory, in Medford, Mass. With many patients no longer responding to potent antibiotics, stool has emerged as a surprisingly effective treatment for hard-to-treat gut infections. Fecal transplants pose a unique challenge for the Food and Drug Administration, which has been trying to confirm the safety of the new therapy by regulating it as an experimental drug. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Business

FDA grapples with oversight of fecal transplants

Matthew Perrone -

June 26, 2014 5:20 pm

Washington Secrets

CDC wants more cigarette taxes, regs as tobacco usage flattens, teens experiment

Paul Bedard -

June 25, 2014 6:38 pm

Business

FDA warns of allergic reactions with acne products

Matthew Perrone -

June 25, 2014 6:37 pm

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the student loan billÃÂ would be paid for by closing a tax loophole that would have all individuals earning more than $1 million annually to pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

When it comes to importing diseases, Chuck Schumer sees the tree, misses the forest

Becket Adams -

June 24, 2014 12:04 pm

Healthcare

Schumer requests US health alert for virus

Washington Examiner -

June 22, 2014 1:16 pm

In a wrongful birth suit, the claim arises from some disability the child has, and the parents blame their physician(s) for not alerting them to some test or test results that could have revealed the disability. (iStock Photo)

Op-Eds

Two fundamental problems with wrongful-birth suits

Walter Weber -

June 20, 2014 4:02 pm

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