Outside the Beltway

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

The choice is not between British-style socialized medicine and a free market in health care.

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

The First Lady is coming under fire for hypocrisy in her meal choices.

A rider in a protest against motorcycle helmet laws crashed his motorcycle and died from head injuries he would have survived had he been wearing a helmet.

It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.

Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.

The Care Quality Commission has found widespread neglect of elderly patients in the British National Health Service.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

Drinking large amounts of coffee may ward off prostate cancer.

George Will reflects on turning 70.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

For a small group of people—perhaps just 1% to 3% of the population—sleep is a waste of time.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.

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.