Health News 
Top News
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Proposed commission would give teeth to cost-saving ideas but some lawmakers skeptical
- Feds outside the Beltway react to furloughs
- Contracting executives guilty of 8(a) program fraud
- EPA CIO Jackson returning to private sector
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- ICE Director John Morton stepping down
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- IRS official contradicts claims about reviews
- House presses VA for more details after cyber attacks
- DoD maintains BRAC fight, despite opposition
HIV drug can also protect injection drug users
US health officials say pill can also help prevent AIDS infection in injection drug users
UK to start regulating e-cigarettes as medicines
UK to start regulating all nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, as medicines
Court hears arguments on NYC's big soda ban
Appeals court hears arguments on NYC plan to ban big sodas, other sugary drinks at restaurants
Irene Pollin gives $10M to Hopkins cardiac center
Irene Pollin donates $10 million to Johns Hopkins center for heart disease prevention
Girl who took on transplant rules gets new lungs
Pa. girl, 10, who successfully challenged organ transplantation rules, gets new lungs
Embattled Chargers doctor Chao steps down
Embattled Chargers doctor Chao steps down, citing back problems
UN: World population to reach 8.1 billion in 2025
UN forecasts world population will increase from 7.2 billion today to 8.1 billion in 2025
Transplant vote seeks medical and legal balance
Lung transplant vote aims for medical and legal balance on life and death issues
Myriad stock volatile after high court gene ruling
Myriad Genetics shares volatile after mixed ruling from Supreme Court on gene patentability
US court says human genes cannot be patented
US Supreme Court says isolated human genes cannot be patented
Health care law's employer requirements
Employers with 50 or more full-time workers required to offer 'affordable' coverage
Pa. girl's double-lung transplant deemed success
Family: Pa. girl whose plight stirred debate on organ donation has successful lung transplant
Sandoval signs medical marijuana dispensary law
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signs into law bill allowing medical marijuana dispensaries
Nonsurgical abortions to resume in Wisconsin
Wisconsin clinics to resume offering nonsurgical abortions after judge's ruling
US Surgeon General to step down
US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin to step down; will remain active in public health
Govt cautions medical schools on enrollment
Govt cautions health-related schools about possibly discriminatory enrollment decisions
Nevada ACLU backing suit against 'patient dumping'
Nevada ACLU joins psych patient who was bused to Calif. to file federal 'patient dumping' suit
Lawmaker says low rate of pregnancy from rape
House lawmaker says low rate of pregnancy from rape
Accenture forecasts fast retail clinic growth
Accenture predicts growth surge for retail health clinics as overhaul adds insured patients
