Outside the Beltway

The Big Gulp ban won’t ban Big Gulps. But it’ll ban 2-liter Cokes with your pizza and pitchers at Chuck E. Cheese.

Tony Schwartz says, “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive.”

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

President George H. W. Bush has been moved out of the intensive care unit and seems to be improving nicely.

New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy was experiencing post-concussion syndrome but hid it from the team for days.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good idea.

The new psychiatric diagnostic manual does away with some common ailments and adds some new ones.

Ron Fournier details how Bill Clinton and George W. Bush taught him how to understand his son, Tyler, who has Asperger’s syndrome.

NPR’s Julie Rovner makes a novel argument: Raising the Medicare eligibility age would actually increase the cost of Medicare.

People from blood groups A, B, and AB are at greater risk of heart disease than those with type O, a new study finds. Or does it?

An important ruling on the Obama Administration’s contraceptive coverage mandate from a Judge in Colorado.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

Babies who grow up with dogs and cats in the home are healthier, a new study finds.

Another local official wants to join the War On Big Soda.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

After a decade of war, suicides are surging among American troops.

Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.

Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier.

Americans are ridiculously fat and getting fatter by the nanosecond.

I have just, again, walked out of a doctor’s office after being kept waiting too long for an appointment.

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

The estimated number of U.S. autistic kids has skyrocketed by 78% since 2000, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Is the now-familiar refrain that the individual mandate was originally a conservative idea really true?

TV gave us the world’s first bionic man in 1973. Science is way behind.

There’s little benefit, and much cost, to moving our clocks back and forth every six months. So why do we do it?