Outside the Beltway

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

Babies who grow up with dogs and cats in the home are healthier, a new study finds.

Another local official wants to join the War On Big Soda.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

After a decade of war, suicides are surging among American troops.

Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.

Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier.

Americans are ridiculously fat and getting fatter by the nanosecond.

I have just, again, walked out of a doctor’s office after being kept waiting too long for an appointment.

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

The estimated number of U.S. autistic kids has skyrocketed by 78% since 2000, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Is the now-familiar refrain that the individual mandate was originally a conservative idea really true?

TV gave us the world’s first bionic man in 1973. Science is way behind.

There’s little benefit, and much cost, to moving our clocks back and forth every six months. So why do we do it?

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.