Outside the Beltway

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

Players from the Los Angeles Clippers chipped in to pay for the surgery of assistant coach Kim Hughes back in 2004. It’s been a secret until now.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

Oregon Congressman David Wu was showing signs of mental breakdown during his recent re-election campaign.

The federal government’s newest dietary guidelines have finally stated that which has long been between the lines: Americans eat too damn much food.

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has succumbed to the inevitable at the ripe old age of 96.

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

Jared Loughner could have possibly been stopped, and treated, if someone had said something.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Will you age slower if you exercise, eat well? A study conducted by German researchers says Yes. But maybe it just seems like you’re aging slower?

The US has always outspent our G7 brethren on healthcare but the divergence has skyrocketed over the last three decades.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

72 percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, compared to 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans.

Perhaps the dumbest study ever published in the Lancet compares the negative effects of alcohol and illicit drugs without controlling for incidence.

Experts say 80% of all alcohol sales go to people with drinking problems. The mathematics of that are staggering.

Thirty-two years after the first “Test Tube Baby” was born, the doctor who pioneered the procedure that created her has been recognized with a Nobel Prize.

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

A federal appeals court has ruled that there’s no link between autism and childhood vaccines.

Yet another sign that the America of my youth is dead: whole wheat bread is outselling white bread.

Mutated bacteria spreading in India could mark the end of effective antibiotic drugs. The medical repercussions would be enormous.

Christopher Hitchens takes us through this initial weeks with cancer with brutal introspection and wry humor.

Despite new breakthroughs, an HIV vaccine is still some ways off. But, my, we’ve come a long way.

Using sexual arousal aids increases your chances of getting AIDS.

Christopher Hitchens has esophageal cancer.

The legendary food police are going after Ronald McDonald and his Happy Meals.