Outside the Beltway

The former Senate Majority Leader had surgery in Maryland after an apparently early diagnosis.

Ebola is making a reappearance in Central Africa.. Will the world be better prepared this time?

The National Security Advisor has broken up the team that manages global epidemics for no apparent reason.

Ronny Jackson did not invent the practice of giving Ambien and Provigil to high-level government workers.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

There are no magic foods. Cleanses are unnecessary and probably unhealthy. But we’re still eating a diet high in crap we know we shouldn’t eat.

The industry is using speaker fees to reward physicians who prescribe the most.

An estimated 200,000 Americans have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Dental professionals are 23 times more likely to be afflicted.

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

Dave Schuler argues the US would have a much better healthcare system if we had modeled it on VA clinics rather than private insurance.

Thanks for nothing, anti-vaxxers.

A longstanding claim—that I myself believed to be true—is that spending money on preventative care like regular checkups would save money in the long run by catching health issues before they become acute. The evidence does not support this.

Last October, legendary rocker Tom Petty died of a heart attack, at the relatively young age of 66. The medical examiner has now attributed this to an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

Sixteen Senators are backing a single-payer system. Another forty-four to go.

A public intellectual is getting the help he needs.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

Thanks to anti-vaccination activists spreading false propaganda, measles cases are hitting record highs among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

The problem with all the replacement talk is that there is no evidence that the GOP pathways will work.

With repeal of the Affordable Care Act now likely sooner rather than later, key Republicans are urging the party to have a replacement in place before repeal is voted on.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Major carriers are reporting massive losses and demanding major rate hikes to cover the costs imposed by PPACA.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

A new study suggests that being a national leader may shorten your expected lifespan.

The news that the late football legend Frank Gifford suffered from the same chronic brain disease that has been diagnosed in many N.F.L. players in recent years, and the upcoming release of a new film on the issue, seems certain to increase pressure to protect players at all levels of football.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

With the last legal hurdle to Obamacare cleared, “death panels” have made a quiet comeback.

If you’re under 21 in Hawaii, you’re still technically an adult but you can’t buy tobacco.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

Vaccination has eliminated a disease that used to be a serious threat from the Americas.

Yet another study has found no link between autism and childhood vaccines. However, that’s unlikely to mean the end of the anti-vaccination movement.

The Disneyland measles outbreak wasn’t enough to overcome anti-vaccine forces.

A sad, complicated story.

(Plus an amusing video).

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

The Food & Drug Administration’s new regulations requiring calorie and other information on menus in restaurants and elsewhere won’t work, could limit consumer choice, and may not be Constitutional.

The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.