Washington Health News

The cable networks and other news organizations like to pretend there is some doubt, some suspense, as to the outcome of the health care bill including the public option. There isnt. But they act like there is some doubt for...

A new mutation of the swine flu, H1N1, a variant, in which the virus uses D225G as a receptor binding domain, causes bleeding in the lungs. Another H1N1 mutation results in the resistance to treatment with antiviral medication. With flu...

The Emerging Technologies Conference at M.I.T. ended a few days ago with a focus on developing universal flu vaccines. Which companies are going to develop those vaccines, and when will they begin research? NanoViricides are coming soon. The planet needs...

A U.S. debt that is topping $12 trillion is raising fresh questions about the cost of President Barack Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul, but those concerns are unlikely to sink the legislation. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan scorekeeper of federal...

The report is, to put it mildly, shocking. Who would ever have expected to learn that 1 in 6 children in the USA go to bed hungry? The US President Barack Obama had promised to eradicate childhood hunger. A Government...

The USPSTF (U.S. Preventative Services Task Force ), an independent panel of primary care & prevention experts, has put out new guidelines for the frequency of mammograms for women in the 40-50 age group. For the first time since 1989,...

The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes health care debate that's sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics today. Debate on the $848 billion bill to...