Outside the Beltway

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Tragedy piled on top of tragedy.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Pensions and health care costs for the elderly are crowding out other vital spending.

Does trash become treasure with time?

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor contends that a recent change in tax law unravels the basis for the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

The former Governor and Presidential candidate, and current Ambassador to Russia, reveals his diagnosis of Stage One Melanoma.

Science can’t precisely locate gender but it’s neither fully biological nor fully genetic.

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

Thanks in large part to an aggressive public health education program and vaccination, Australia is on course to effectively eradicate cervical cancer.

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, most people are listening to orders to evacuate, but some people aren’t.

An Ebola outbreak that started last month in Central Africa appears to be contained. You can thank an aggressive vaccination campaign for that.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

Days after designer Kate Spade killed herself, depression has claimed another celebrity.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

A surprise announcement about the First Lady.

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.