The Hill Stories
- Medical innovation often comes fast, but mainstreaming those discoveries into the clinic can come slowly. New federal guidelines for asthma treatment have been released for the first time in 13 years.
- The Canadian Health minister signed an order last week that will curb the ability of Americans to import prescription drugs from our neighbors to the north.
- Murder and assault rates rose nationwide in the first half of 2020, although other violent and property crime rates are on the decline, according to the FBI’s most recent Preliminary Uniform Crime...
- With most Americans in favor of legalized marijuana, how long before recreational pot becomes available across the US?
- The chances that the Affordable Care Act will survive its latest US Supreme Court challenge may be looking up.
- The high tension and energy of 2020's presidential election has left its mark on the social media landscape.
- Experiencing stress, anxiety, or losing sleep over the election? Here's how the experts say to deal with it.
- At least half of voters prefer former Vice President Joe Biden’s approach to health care over President Donald Trump’s.
- As people with high blood pressure have lost their health insurance, they have stopped taking their medications. The number of those who have hypertension and don't know it has increased as well.
- The FDA has reversed course and authorized convalescent plasma as an emergency use authorization for COVID-19. The scientific community does not think this was a wise course of action.
- If you think that ingesting a poisonous plant that hasn’t been put through the rigors of clinical trial examination is a bad idea, bravo and brava.
- More than 20 U.S. states have enforced rules asking people to wear face masks.