Outside the Beltway

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s money guy, probably shouldn’t be his media guy.

Some polling numbers to go along with the speculation.

Are their cultural reasons for America’s obesity problem?

Shockingly, Paula Deen, the morbidly obese woman who fries Twinkies on television, has diabetes.

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

From Europe, a case of regulation gone nuts.

Will we wind up with a backdoor mandate? Or a single payer system?

Twitter is abuzz with news that Congress has declared pizza to be a vegetable. It’s actually not news at all.

A Federal Judge has blocked a new FDA rule that would have placed these labels on cigarette packaging.

One of the less ballyhooed parts of ObamaCare has been tossed aside as too expensive before it even went into effect.

Anesthesiologist Eugene Lipov thinks he has found a cheap, effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army won’t fund it.

Chris Christie’s weight has become a political concern, apparently.

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

Many Americans die from preventable dental disease because they can’t afford care.

For the past 18 months, Medicare spending has slowed down considerably – especially compared to the private sector.

The Eleventh Circuit has struck down the individual mandate as exceeding Congress’ enumerated powers under the Commerce Clause.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

The choice is not between British-style socialized medicine and a free market in health care.

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

The First Lady is coming under fire for hypocrisy in her meal choices.

A rider in a protest against motorcycle helmet laws crashed his motorcycle and died from head injuries he would have survived had he been wearing a helmet.

It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.

Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.

The Care Quality Commission has found widespread neglect of elderly patients in the British National Health Service.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

Drinking large amounts of coffee may ward off prostate cancer.

George Will reflects on turning 70.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

For a small group of people—perhaps just 1% to 3% of the population—sleep is a waste of time.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.